Folie de jeunesse
Glossary term
/fɔ.li də ʒœ.nɛs/
Youthful folly [French]. The retrospective category by which mature scoundrels convert old misconduct into biography.
Appears in
- Helix Folt, the Conservative chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
…As the nasty dirty afternoon drained away to nasty dirty waste, Mr Roger Buggery found himself reassessing his folie de jeunesse, which rather tended to exacerbate his gripe. He gaped at all the veneering. It was all beige, in that nasty dirty little parlour. Beige. All of it. All the veneering and all the naugahyde leatherette. And all the tarnished polymer: beige. Nothing but beige. Beige and nasty