œuf

n. m.

1. 'Pill', 'pillock', fool. Faire l'œuf: To arse about. Cesse de faire l'œuf! Stop mucking about!

2. Aux œufs: 'A-1', 'champion', firstclass. Comme boulot, c'est aux œufs! That's what I'd call a plum job!

3. Casser son œuf: To have a miscarriage.

4. Avoir des œufs sur le plat: To have 'poached-egg-on-toast boobs', to have an insignificant bust.

5. Marcher (comme) sur des œufs:

  a (lit.): To walk carefully (because of pain).

  b (fig.): To tread warily.

6. Sortir de l'œuf: To be 'as green as they come', to be totally lacking experience (where life is concerned).

7. Etouffer quelque chose dans l'œuf: To 'nip something in the bud', to abort an enterprise or rumour in its early stages.

8. Etre chauve comme un œuf: To be as bald as a coot.

9. 'I'ondre des œufs: To be a 'skinflint', to be as mean as they come.

10. Qui vole un œuf vole un bœuf: Once a thief, always a thief!

11. Aller se faire cuire un œuf: To 'get knotted', to go to blazes. Va te faire cuire un oeuf! Get stuffed! (The expression aller se faire cuire un œuf, because of its very nature, is quite interjection-loaded.)

12. Plein comme un œuf: 'As tight as a tick', as drunk as a lord.

13. L'avoir dans l'œuf: To have been 'conned', 'diddled', to have been swindled.

14. (pl.): 'Nuts', 'balls', testicles.

15. Œuf corse! (joc.): Absoballylutely! — Of course!