vu

vu
past part.
1. On aura tout vu! Well, would you ever (believe that)?!
2. C'est tout vu! That's the way it is! — It's all settled! — It's a fact! (that needs no more arguing about).
3. Ni vu ni connu, je t'embrouille! Stock jocular phrase uttered when faced with an inexplicable state of muddle, the nearest colloquial equivalent being: 'Now you see it, now you don't!'
4. Vu? Agreed? (The elliptical answer to this elliptical question is an affirmative vu! equatable with O.K.!)

Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French. 2013.

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