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poire

pear

noun PWAHR Rare
Food & Drink Fruits

Also means

sucker (informal person easily fooled)

Usage Note

Poire is the common fruit, but colloquially it means a gullible person or a 'mug' — quelle poire! ('what a sucker!'). The idiom garder une poire pour la soif ('keep a pear for the thirst') means to save something for a rainy day, equivalent to 'keep something in reserve.'

Examples

"Elle a croqué dans une poire bien mûre."

Natural Translation

She bit into a very ripe pear.

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