{"id":1362,"date":"2012-05-02T18:02:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T17:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2012-05-02T18:02:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T17:02:52","slug":"les-carottes-sont-cuites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1362","title":{"rendered":"Les carottes sont cuites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Three &#8220;cheerful&#8221; expressions today<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Aujourd&#8217;hui en <em>chair<\/em>, demain en <em>bi\u00e8re<\/em><\/span> :<br \/>\nLiterally: Today in the flesh, tomorrow in the coffin:<br \/>\nNOT: Today in a <em>chair<\/em>, tomorrow in <em>beer<\/em> (two false friends here):<br \/>\nHere today, gone tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Les carottes sont cuites<\/span> :<br \/>\n(This was often used as a coded BBC radio message to the French Resistance in WWII):<br \/>\nLiterally: The carrots are cooked:<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s [all] done and dusted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jeter son froc aux orties<\/span> :<br \/>\nLiterally: To throw one&#8217;s habit\/robe in the nettles:<br \/>\nTo kick over the traces.<\/p>\n<p>Taken from: &#8216;Don&#8217;t toss Granny in the Begonias: Faut pas Pousser M\u00e9m\u00e9 dans les B\u00e9gonias&#8217; by H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Claudel-Gilly and Primrose Arnander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three &#8220;cheerful&#8221; expressions today: Aujourd&#8217;hui en chair, demain en bi\u00e8re : Literally: Today in the flesh, tomorrow in the coffin: NOT: Today in a chair, tomorrow in beer (two false friends here): Here today, gone tomorrow. Les carottes sont cuites &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[80,79,170],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-lY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}