That could be confusing! oui?

The french also have a one word interjection: pouce! I read on the internet: "Terme enfantin permettant de se mettre hors d'un jeu." I just don't have a good feel for the way it is used. Are you familiar with it? Is it like saying, "pass!" in a card game, meaning "I pass"? Or a kid's big sister asks him to help with the dishes, and the kid says "pouce!"

Nope- new one on me!

I guess it's the player who "a un poil dans la main" who could easily say, "Pouce!"

That makes sense!

I have a book of french idioms around here somewhere... had my hands on it a week or so ago...

Mansion's French-English dictionary says of Pouce! that its a slang or popular word used by students; Pouce! = pax!

This dictionary is at least 40 yrs old and with a term like "pax!" That's gotta be a British school-kid word!

Un coupe de pouce à ceux qui en ont besoin!
That's just what we need. A little thumb-push, some help.
I'm not ready to cry "Pouce!"

Ok,voici! (here it is!) from a forum at http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=780154

5th January 2008, 08:10 PM
archijacq
Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007
Native of: french France
Posts: 6,479

Re: Pouce!
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pouce means "truce", "pax"

"Pax", as in the Latin "peace"? That makes sense, actually more than "pouce" does.

Yes, Latin. Many of those english prep-school kids had to study latin.

French Gesture

1. Un, deux, trois...

When counting on the fingers, begin with the the thumb as the number one, then the index finger for the two, and the middle finger for three, etc.

Also, if you want just one of something just hold up one thumb. If you hold up two fingers you will get three instead of two!

le brouillard (broo-yar) noun, masculine

fog, mist, haze, smog

La mémoire est un drôle de brouillard.
Memory is a strange kind of fog. --Valère Staraselski

"Il fait du brouillard"
It is foggy.

"être dans le brouillard"
to be unaware

These sayings remind me of someone having their "tête dans la lune"...

Since we've just had that lunar eclipse last night, could you provide some phrases using the moon word- la lune?