Franglais of French into English. However, in this context, the correct translation of is 'heavens...!' In Monty Python's 1975 movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", the French castle guard (John Cleese) orders, when King Arthur (Graham Chapman) doesn't want to go away, his fellow guards to ""Fetchez la vache."". The other French guards respond with "" and he repeats ""Fetchez la vache!"". The guards finally get it: fetch ('the cow'), which they then catapult at the Britons. In French, refers to the use of English words sometimes regarded as unwelcome imports or as bad slang. An example would be (also
Animal epithet the ideological divide, the Cuban government described the revolutionary Che Guevara as a "communist rat" in 1958. Epithets are not limited to mammals; for instance, comparing someone to a snail means they are (extremely) slow, while calling them a slug implies they are lazy and loathsome. Frog is pejorative for French people in English, from the use of frogs' legs in French cuisine. Edmund Leach argued in a classic 1964 paper that animal epithets are insulting when the animal in question is taboo, making its name suitable for use as an obscenity. For example, Leach argues that calling a person