French letter

French letter

slang A condom. Primarily heard in UK. I have a date tonight, so I need to make sure I have a French letter in my wallet.
See also: french, letter
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • esprit
  • esprit de corps
  • chips
  • chip
  • jeux
  • avant
  • avant la lettre
  • chip butty
  • be a (something) through and through
  • if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him
References in periodicals archive
It definitely tastes different with French letters in.
Never perform karaoke in bed with a pig..they hog the covers - SAMANTHA BAINES; It's the great pun championship but can you guess who won?
French Letters In The Sand, Get It On, 99 Red Balloons (Ronnie Munro).
Stand-up comedy
In 1879 he published the novel Aziyade anonymously and began one of the more remarkable public lives in French letters. Viand, in a sense, everted himself on the public stage, all the while reinventing, adjusting, and mythologizing what came from within.
Pierre Loti's islands of adventure
yes, but more aptly, a man of French letters, for, ever hopeful, he carried a bag of them with him in his luggage wherever he went.
The vanishing man of letters
Never thought Roy would have a use for French letters again.
Ian Hyland's TV Week: Anyone fancy a Bevvy?
In her fascinating literary biography, Bouchardeau seeks to assure Triolet her rightful place in the pantheon of French letters.
Huguette Bouchardeau: Elsa Triolet: Ecrivain
No longer an official supporter of what is most commendable in the social order, one who denounces and ritually expels the scapegoat, the poet himself becomes the exile, the anti-self of the society that has expelled him." (70-71); and finally, "Unlike his contemporaries Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verlaine, Hugo has received little credit for preparing the religious revival in French letters during the first half of the twentieth century.
Victor Hugo
French windows are just the same, made of glass, nice and see-through; French letters are also remarkably similar, although they do have one which is like an o and an e fused together.
Bruce Millington: In total awe of legend Lance
We make only two exceptions in our campaign: David Ginola is a nice bloke and you can still use French letters.
BATTLE OF PORTALOO!; They feed their cows on human manure, ban our beef, eat our ponies and burn our sheep.. so why the HELL are we buying French food and wine?
The promise to marry, the basic premise of Don Juan's seductions is either completely missing from the French letters, or occurs only at the very end of the correspondence; in the Spanish letters, the promise initiates correspondence.
Narratives of Don Juan: the language of seduction in seventeenth-century Hispanic literature and society
Louis XIV opposed the movement, whose influence was felt at court, in society, and in French letters (see Port - Royal ), and the Jansenists were finally put down by Pope Clement XI in his bull Unigenitus (1713).
Jansenism
But let's forget about the fake letters (and for that matter the French letters) and concentrate on these ridiculous claims that Brown is a bigot.
FOOTBALL: TAM COWAN; If Craig Brown is a bigot then I must be a ballerina
Helene Cixous is one of the most widely recognized names in contemporary French letters, a laureate of the Prix Medicis (1969), well known to students, scholars, and critics of French.
Helene Cixous
Well, there's champagne, foie gras, cheese, Brigitte Bardot, 'Allo 'Allo, French kissing, French letters...
We must be dotto to bet on the Lotto!