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231 months ago

Karen Vincent-Jones   asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	se pogne le beigne
Context:	certain employé se pogne le be
Keywords:	criticism

 

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to do nothing, to loaf

My comment:

According to online sources, you can also say "se pogner le bacon". Here is the site I consulted: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=215376

Il est difficile de se sentir professionnel quand la population pense à tort et à travers qu’on a un job où on se «pogne le beigne» toute la journée. ..... This example was taken from this site: http://www.opossum.ca/guitef/archives/002586.html

The image I get in my mind is someone taking a donut and idly eating it while things are waiting to be done. Donut in Canadian French is "beigne". "Pogner" is "to grab, to take, to catch".

My references:

internet

The asker's comment:

Thank you for your detailed comments. Does 'beigne' come from 'beignet' I wonder?

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