fruit sec
Appearance
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fruit sec m (plural fruits secs)
- dried fruit
- nut
- (slang) lazybones
- 1994, Michel Houellebecq, Extension du domaine de la lutte:
- Un type comme lui devrait avoir des enfants ; s’il avait des enfants, on pourrait espèrer qu’il finisse par sortir quelque chose de ce grouillement de petits Bernards. Mais non, il n’est même pas marié. Fruit sec.
- A guy like him should have children; if he had children, we could hope that something would come out of him. But no, he isn't even married. Lazybones.
Further reading
[edit]- “fruit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.