France
In France children use the word pouce as the equivalent of the English pax and the American time-out. The literal translation of pouce is thumb or big toe.
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Famous quotes containing the word france:
“It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.”
—Anatole France (1844–1924)
“Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.”
—Lillian Hellman (1907–1984)