verre cul-de-jatte
English translation: short glass
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|  Selected response from: Sandra Mouton United Kingdom Local time: 00:03 | ||||||
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| 3 | cracked glass/mug |
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| 3 | short glass |
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4 days confidence: 
cracked glass/mug Explanation: cul-de-jatte in general means having no legs or your legs cut off- maybe seeing as how this is a drunkard speaking, he imagines that his glass has no bottom and is therefore thinking that his alcohol leaked out instead of his having drunk it... this is a tricky translation because normally one would never associate the words "verre" and "cul-de-jatte" so i am not sure what the best translation would be... |
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6 days confidence:
short glass Explanation: Except the obvious explanation of a legless glass, I thought that a "cul-de-jatte" would invariably be very short and the drunk could be complaining about the small capacity of the glasses. It seems to be confirmed by this reference in Dictionnaire universel de la langue française Volume 1, définitions de cul de jatte dans l'entrée "cul" I found through Google books (I am not sure the link to the relevant page will be accepted by the KudoZ answer form) Reference: http://books.google.fr/books?id=9oYSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA435&lpg=PA... |
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| Reference: verres cul-de-jatte Reference information: same question with answers suggested Reference: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1921370 |
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