- rond
- I.n. m.1. 'Brass', 'loot', money. Ça a dû te coûter des ronds! It must have cost you a packet! J'ai eu ça pour deux ronds! I got it for next to nothing! Ne pas avoir un rond: To be 'skint', 'broke', to be penniless. Il n'ajamais le rond! He never has two brass farthings to rub together!2. Ne pas être¼pour deux ronds: Not to be in the least¼Il n'est pas mechant pour deux ronds! There's not an ounce of meanness in him!3. Faire des ronds dans l'eau: To while away the hours doing bugger-all, to be idle.4. En rester comme deux ronds de flan: To be 'knocked all of a heap', to be 'flabbergasted', to be dumbfounded.5. Le rond (also: la pièce de dix ronds): The arse-hole, the anal sphincter. Prendre du rond: To engage in sodomous intercourse. (The expression se manier le rond refers more generally to the behind and can be translated as to 'put one's skates on', to get a move on, to hurry up.)II.adj. 'Sozzled', 'sloshed', drunk. Il est rond comme une bourrique: He's pissed out of his tiny little mind.III.adv. Tourner rond: To go 'without a hitch', to run smoothly. Depuis qu'on a des commandes, ça tourne rond à l'usine: Since orders have been coming back in again, we seem to be holding our own at the factory. (The expression ça ne tourne pas rond when referring to a person suggests an unbalanced state of mind. Ça ne tourne pas rond avec lui, ces temps-ci! He's seemed to be going off his rocker lately!)
Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French. 2013.