blé
nounInformal
A French slang term. Browse all French slang.
What it means
Money. One of several French food-words for cash, alongside oseille (sorrel) and fric.
Literally: Wheat.
Examples with translations
Il se fait du blé avec ça.
He's making good money out of that.
Faut du blé pour habiter Paris.
You need money to live in Paris.
Where it comes from
Grain as a metaphor for wealth is nearly universal — English dough, Spanish pasta, Italian grana. Agricultural staples become the measure of value in slang everywhere.
Other forms
- Similar terms:
- fric, oseille, thune