The theater is a firework display of games, words and formulas.
It's a small world, a micro-society whose vocabulary has been inserted into everyday language.
Just pay attention to our daily expressions.
When a person lasts in time, is represented for a long time, he
“holds the poster”
.
If she shows capricious behavior, she
"plays the divas"
.
And when she is born into a family of artists, she is
"a child of the ball"
.
The theatrical expressions have indeed invaded our way of expressing ourselves!
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Some of these expressions are tasty. Do you know for example what the actors say to evoke the total fiasco of a play? They
“picked up a jacket”
. This formula would come from the
"condom"
, a long rain coat worn by the soldiers and the Hairy people of the First World War. Fans of card games would then have derided the word
"condom"
to designate the loser of the game, since he was then
"humiliated"
, informs Georges Planelle in
The 1001 favorite expressions of the French
.
The word
"condom"
was also taken over by the Germans by becoming the well-known
kaputt
. Likewise, when it is necessary
"To heat the public"
, to make them enthusiastic, we
"put wood"
.
And if we raise the curtain too quickly, we
"make the plane fly with the curtain"
.
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