métro, boulot, dodo
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Etymology [edit]
Abbreviated from the last line 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
- Metro, work, bistro, cigs, sleep, zero
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Phrase [edit]
métro, boulot, dodo (metro, work, sleep)
- metonymy for the everyday routine of a Parisian or more generally urban worker. Roughly, same old same old.
Usage notes [edit]
The expression and the poem from which it is drawn are generally taken as critiques of the monotony of workaday life.
