Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

la roupie au nez

English translation:

'snot' or 'nose drop'

Added to glossary by tapon (X)
Mar 19, 2006 12:47
18 yrs ago
French term

la roupie au nez

French to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature the passage concerns a team of dogs pulling a sled
Je m'insurge contre le portrait qu'il fait de moi, me montrant comme un vieil instituteur gaga, qui prend sa retraite les larmes aux yeux et la roupie au nez. [p.15]
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Proposed translations

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'snot' or 'nose drop'

La roupie de nez is a nice way of describing mucus coming from the nose.
Peer comment(s):

disagree writeaway : snot is rather ugly slang-normally would never be usen such a context.is totally out of register.And I've never heard the term 'nose drop' used in English.Is it Russian?/your refs is for young kids and uses water drops.
146 days
No it is English. See: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/nose_run.html AKA 'dew drop'
disagree df49f (X) : inappropriate register for snot - & nose drops for Eng. native speakers refers to what you put IN your nose if you have a cold, not to what comes out :-)) // objection concerns impropriety of REGISTER: this is not a scientific paper nor a children book
146 days
If it's good enough for Professor Gary Meadows - a snot expert, then it's good enough for me. see:http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse/snot.html. Also drops of mucuus drip OUT of your nose. Hence the term a 'dripping nose'. A snotty person is also arrogant.
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12 mins

(his) nose streaming

Not a particularly pleasant image, is it?!!

roupie féminin (pluriel : roupies)

Vieux, fam. Ecoulement qui pend au nez.
Avoir la roupie au nez.

http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/roupie

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Note added at 14 mins (2006-03-19 13:02:18 GMT)
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"He winds up stranded like a prisoner on a desert island, sitting forlorn on the table with his nose streaming."
www.zumcomics.info/Archive/zum!10/uvw.html

"Ah, eshoo! aheshoo! ishhhahh! unshhoooahh! Hah,hishhoo!" His nose now streaming into the handkerchief and his eyes watering, he started to blow again.
http://tos.beastlet.com/Nivalis.html




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Note added at 1 hr (2006-03-19 14:00:05 GMT)
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Or alternatively you could have "his nose running", "with a runny nose"...
Peer comment(s):

agree Huw Watkins
1 hr
thanks
agree John Peterson
1 hr
thanks
agree Sorcha Diskin
22 hrs
thanks
agree writeaway : any of your suggestions were ok. I am completely baffled by the choice made here.
146 days
agree df49f (X)
146 days
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