Ne fais pas du ragoût sur ton dab! (n’éveille pas les soupçons sur ton maître!) dit tout bas Jacques Collin.--=BALZAC.=
Faire la balle élastique, _to go with an empty belly_, “to be bandied.” Literally _to be as light as an india-rubber ball_; ---- la console, or consolation, _one of a series of card-sharping games, termed as follows_, “arranger les pantres,” or “bonneteau,” “un coup de bonnet,” or “parfaite,” “flambotté aux rotins,” or “anglaise;” ---- la bride, _to steal watch-guards_, “to buz slangs;” ---- la fuite, la jat jat, la paire, le patatrot, faire cric, faire vite, _to run away_, “to make beef, or to guy.” See PATATROT. Faire la grande soulasse sur le trimar, _to murder on the highway_; ---- la grèce, or plumer le pantre, _to entice a traveller from a railway station into a café, where he is robbed of his money at a swindling game of cards_; ---- la retourne des baguenaudes, _to pick the pockets of a helpless man_, “to fake a cly;” ---- la souris, _to rob stealthily_, “to nip;” ---- la tire, _to pick pockets, generally by means of a pair of scissors delicately inserted, or a double-bladed penknife_, “to fake a cly;” ---- la tire à la chicane, explained by quotation:--
Ils font la tire à la chicane, en tournant le dos à celui qu’ils dépouillent.--=DU CAMP.=
Faire la tortue, _to go without any food_; ---- le barbot dans une cambriolle, _to steal property from a room_, “to do a crib;” ---- le bobe, _to steal watches_, “toy getting;” ---- l’égard, _to retain for oneself the proceeds of a robbery_; ---- le gaf, _to watch_, “to nark, to give a roasting, to nose, to lay, or to dick;” ---- le lézard, _to decamp_, “to guy,” see PATATROT; ---- le morlingue, _to steal a purse_, “to buz a skin or poge;” ---- le mouchoir, _to steal pocket-handkerchiefs_, called “stook hauling, fogle hunting, or drawing the wipe;” ---- le pantre, _to play the fool_; ---- le rendème or rendémi, _to swindle a tradesman by picking up again from his counter a gold coin tendered for payment, and making off with both coin and change_; ---- nonne _is said of accomplices_, or “jollies,” _who form a small crowd so as to facilitate a thief’s operations_; ---- la balle à quelqu’un, _to carry out one’s instructions_.