avoir les dents qui rayent le parquet

French

Etymology

Literally, “to have teeth lining the parquet”, i.e. an elaboration on avoir les dents longues.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.vwaʁ le dɑ̃ ki ʁɛj lə paʁ.kɛ/
  • Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Somain)):(file)

Verb

avoir les dents qui rayent le parquet

  1. (figuratively, derogatory) to be unscrupulously ambitious
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.