meaning?

[woolybanana]

avoir un bon assiette = have a good ar*e? anyone know svp?

[suej]

 

[quote user="woolybanana"]avoir un bon assiette = have a good ar*e? anyone know svp?[/quote]

 

 "Having a good seat" as in looking as if you know what you are doing in a saddle astride a horse, I think - but then I happen to be an elderly product of a girls' grammar school so the prim profs of the time weren't likely to give us any other more interesting translations were they?

Be nice to learn it meant having a bit of a Monroe wiggle or a  raunchy rump- will have to ask one of my younger french friends...

 

[woolybanana]

In know the 'good attitude' meaning but I thought it had the horsey meaning you suggest, and as it was said just as the lady was settling into the saddle, I wasnt sure if it was hyper polite or a nice bit of colloquial French referring to the way her posterior settled into the saddle.

[Doodle]

I took a photo of my french neighbour Alain tiling his roof. After I printed it off I just happened to say to my OH nice a**e. He nipped round with the photo and told him what I'd said which had him and his daughter in hysterics. Alain told him to tell me that I should have said 'popotin agreable'! that sounds a lot nicer don't you think?

Chris

[5-element]

You sure it's not "avoir un bon coup de fourchette"?[:D]

or even "une belle chute de reins"?

[Patf]

I always thought assiette meant plate, or dish (of food.)

But then I'm known to be naive.

Perhaps connected to the word for the pelvic girdle which I've forgotten now, but possibly bassin?

[LEO]

U K horse racing commentators often say " so and so is in the plate" , meaning the jockey who is  in the saddle on that particular day.

[ericd]

“Travailler son assiette” is correctly translated by suej. This is a specific equine term and riders mount without stir-ups in order to improve theirs.