piss-and-vinegar
Anglais
Étymologie
Nom commun
| Indénombrable |
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| piss-and-vinegar \pɪs ænd ˈvɪ.nɪ.ɡɜː\ |
piss-and-vinegar \pɪs ænd ˈvɪ.nɪ.ɡɜː\
- (Indénombrable) (Idiotisme) Exubérance, enthousiasme excessif.
He remembered it well: less than thirty years earlier, flying an F4F-4 Wildcat fighter off USS Enterprise, an ensign, with all his hair—cut very short—and a brand-new wife, all piss-and-vinegar and three hundred hours under his belt.
— (Tom Clancy, Without Remorse, 1993.)- La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)
Variantes orthographiques
Dérivés
- full of piss-and-vinegar