potty

pot, pot pour bébé

Petit récipient utilisé par les jeunes enfants qui apprennent à aller aux toilettes.

En anglais simple : A small container that young children use while learning to go to the toilet.

• My daughter uses a potty.
• We bought two plastic potties for the twins.
• Has he learned to sit on the potty yet?

Expressions courantes : use a potty, potty training, on the potty

toilettes

Mot désignant les toilettes, surtout lorsqu’on parle aux enfants.

En anglais simple : A toilet, especially when speaking to children.

• Do you need to go potty?
• The potty is down the hall.
• We stopped for a potty break.

Synonymes : toilet

Expressions courantes : go potty, use the potty, potty break

pot de chambre

Récipient gardé dans une chambre pour faire ses besoins, surtout la nuit.

En anglais simple : A container kept in a bedroom for going to the toilet, especially at night.

• There was a potty under the bed.
• She emptied the potty every morning.
• The old bedroom still contained a porcelain potty.

Synonymes : chamber pot

Expressions courantes : bedroom potty, empty the potty

dingue, fou

Qui se comporte bizarrement ou n’arrive plus à réfléchir calmement, souvent parce que quelque chose l’agace.

En anglais simple : Behaving strangely or unable to think calmly, often because something is annoying you.

• That noise drives me potty.
• You must be potty to swim in this weather.
• She went potty when she lost her keys.

Synonymes : crazy, mad, nuts

Contraires : sane

Expressions courantes : go potty, drive someone potty, completely potty

facile pour empocher

Se dit d’une surface de billard sur laquelle il est facile d’envoyer les billes dans les poches.

En anglais simple : Describing a playing surface on which it is easy to hit balls into pockets.

• This is a potty table.
• The wide pockets make the table very potty.
• Players scored freely on the potty practice table.

Expressions courantes : potty table, very potty