"piss-and-vinegar" meaning in Anglais

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Noun

IPA: \pɪs ænd ˈvɪ.nɪ.ɡɜː\ Forms: piss and vinegar
  1. Exubérance, enthousiasme excessif. Tags: idiomatic, uncountable
    Sense id: fr-piss-and-vinegar-en-noun-Xsx-9Dqa Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire, Noms indénombrables en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: full of piss-and-vinegar
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    },
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    },
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "full of piss-and-vinegar"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Composé de piss (« urine »), and (« et ») et vinegar (« vinaigre »), littéralement « urine et vinaigre »."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "piss and vinegar"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Tom Clancy, Without Remorse, 1993.",
          "text": "He remembered it well: less than thirty years earlier, flying an F4F-4 Wildcat fighter off USS Enterprise, an ensign, with all his hair—cut very short—and a brand-new wife, all piss-and-vinegar and three hundred hours under his belt."
        }
      ],
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        "Exubérance, enthousiasme excessif."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "\\pɪs ænd ˈvɪ.nɪ.ɡɜː\\"
    }
  ],
  "word": "piss-and-vinegar"
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    {
      "word": "full of piss-and-vinegar"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Composé de piss (« urine »), and (« et ») et vinegar (« vinaigre »), littéralement « urine et vinaigre »."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "piss and vinegar"
    }
  ],
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          "ref": "Tom Clancy, Without Remorse, 1993.",
          "text": "He remembered it well: less than thirty years earlier, flying an F4F-4 Wildcat fighter off USS Enterprise, an ensign, with all his hair—cut very short—and a brand-new wife, all piss-and-vinegar and three hundred hours under his belt."
        }
      ],
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        "Exubérance, enthousiasme excessif."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "\\pɪs ænd ˈvɪ.nɪ.ɡɜː\\"
    }
  ],
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