Our tips on how to say you're tipsy
Prime minister Manuel Valls recently revealed on a Canal+ show that it was a long time since he had drunk himself stupid s鈥檈tait 产辞耻谤谤茅 la gueule . For the French, stuffing your face or getting cooked ( aller prendre une cuite ) is a reference to booze, not food.
Se p茅ter la gueule (smashing up your face) means 鈥榮mashed鈥� and you may also hear Se beurrer la gueule (buttering your face) for getting plastered or se prendre une culotte for the modern-day slang 鈥榯rousered鈥�.
Much more easily understood is boire un coup de trop (drink a drop too much) and the aftermath is having mal aux cheveux (pain in the hair) a hangover.
There are so many different expressions to describe different stages of drunkenness in French: [锚tre] 茅m茅ch茅, saoul, 蝉辞没濒, 别苍颈惫谤茅, ivre, 产别耻谤谤茅, 产颈迟迟别谤茅, completement p茅t茅, 产辞耻谤谤茅 or [avoir une bonne] cuite.
Whether you are 颈尘产颈产茅 (sloshed) or 颈尘辫谤茅驳苍茅 (full) you will probably also be 鈥� or well on the way to becoming 鈥� noir comme une pelle 脿 feu (black as a coal shovel) or dead drunk.
Etre pompette is for drinking lightweights and means to be tiddly while rond comme une queue de pelle means you have had a skinful.
Other expressions you may hear used after celebrations:
- Plein comme une barrique [full as a barrel] bladdered.
- Prendre une serpilli猫re [take a cloth] wiped out
- S鈥檃rracher la face [tear your face off] out of your face
- S鈥櫭ヽlater la tronche 鈥� literally to smash your face up and very S鈥檃rracher la face
- Se mettre la t锚te 脿 l鈥檈nvers 鈥� [to get back to front] out of your head
- Se prendre une timbale [to take a tumbler] have a glass or, more likely, several
