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The French treasures are also somewhat mutilated, queue [XXII,1] is feminine not masculine: tirer le diable par la queue; appuyer sur le champignon means to step on the gas, le champignon being the slang term for accelerator; in vivre comme un coq en pâte there is no acute accent on the e; it is une [not un ] autre paire de manches that the French use for something that is entirely different.
(French coq and Latin gallus both mean the same thing: rooster.)
What a kick to see Pacino, 25 years later, in the Clemenza role, demonstrating for "Donnie" how to make coq au vin . This time, though, the scene has an undercurrent of shame.
For entrée she has the spécialité de la maison, coq au vin with pommes frites and aubergines and he has filet mignon aux fines herbes with courgettes and purée de tomate.
The 19th-century French chemist Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran managed to name Gallium after himself (because, of course, Coq in Latin is Gallus !).