metonymy for the everyday routine of a Parisian or more generally urban worker; roughly, same old same old, or rat race
köken: Literally, “metro, work, sleep”. Abbreviated from the last line of a 1951 poem by Pierre Béarn, collected in Couleurs d’usine (Factory colors): : Au déboulé garçon pointe ton numéro : Pour gagner ainsi le salaire : D’un morne jour utilitaire : Métro, boulot, bistro, mégots, dodo, zéro Literal translation: : Rush in boy punch your number : Thus to earn the salary : Of a dreary utilitarian day :…
phrase · platitude, cliché · phrase (small section of music in a larger piece)
çekim: çoğul frázisok
köken: From Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “to tell, express”). With -zis ending.