{"id":982,"date":"2012-01-13T19:16:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=982"},"modified":"2012-01-13T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T18:28:00","slug":"la-guigne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"La guigne"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now you will know whether your Friday 13th is progressing well or otherwise. Mine appears to be going quite smoothly so far (not ‘famous last words’ I hope). Here is a French phrase about bad luck:<\/p>\n

Avoir la guigne<\/span>:
\nQuand on a la guigne, on est tr\u00e8s malchanceux (-euse), de fa\u00e7on r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9e:\u00a0 when one has ‘la guigne’ one is very unlucky, over and over again.<\/p>\n

“Et d’ailleurs, c’\u00e9tait Gresham qui montait Lusignan […]. Gresham avait la guigne, jamais il n’arrivait.” :
\n“And besides, it was Gresham\u00a0who was climbing Lusignan […] Gresham was not lucky, he would never manage it.”<\/p>\n

\u00c9mile Zola, Nana (1880).<\/p>\n

Taken from: ‘Pourquoi dit-on ? 2012’ par Delphone Gaston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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