{"id":9529,"date":"2014-01-17T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T11:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=9529"},"modified":"2014-01-17T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T11:19:38","slug":"lucky-and-inspiring-veins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=9529","title":{"rendered":"Lucky and inspiring veins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered yesterday that one way to say that someone is lucky in French is to say that they <strong>avoir de la veine<\/strong> (&#8216;have of the vein&#8217;). I&#8217;m not sure why veins are associated with luck. Does anybody know.<\/p>\n<p><em>Veine<\/em> also means seam and inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Other expressions featuring <em>veine<\/em> and related words include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; vein\u00e9 = veined<br \/>\n&#8211; dans la m\u00eame veine = in the same vein<br \/>\n&#8211; veine dramatique = dramatic inspiration<br \/>\n&#8211; veine po\u00e9tique = poetic inspiration<br \/>\n&#8211; veine porte = portal vein<br \/>\n&#8211; veine po\u00e9tique = poetic inspiration<br \/>\n&#8211; veine de cocu \/ veine de pendu = great deal of luck<br \/>\n&#8211; veine d&#8217;air = current of air<br \/>\n&#8211; veinard {n} = lucky beggar\/dog<br \/>\n&#8211; veinard {adj} = fluky; jammy<br \/>\n&#8211; Sacr\u00e9 veinard ! = You jammy bugger!<\/p>\n<p>Are there equivalents of <em>veinard<\/em> in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered yesterday that one way to say that someone is lucky in French is to say that they avoir de la veine (&#8216;have of the vein&#8217;). I&#8217;m not sure why veins are associated with luck. Does anybody know. Veine also means seam and inspiration. Other expressions featuring veine and related words include: &#8211; vein\u00e9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}