HORSING AROUND

Say ouistiti! Armed with a smart phone, friend Sylvia captured this great face somewhere out in the Gard countryside.

Vocabulary

un ouistiti:  a weirdo (slang); when taking photos the French will often tell their subjects "dites ouistiti" to get a big smile--the result is the equivalent of saying cheese

chahuter: to horse around;  to prevent a professor or lecturer to speak by being disorderly (familiar)

dans les parages: nearby, in the area of

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