France· medium· informal
partir à dache
“to leave for dache (slang from 'diable', devil)”
Meaning
to head off to a remote place
Explanation
Marseille slang for heading off somewhere remote or godforsaken. It also gets used when a conversation goes off the rails and stops making sense.
Example
Il a tout plaqué et il est parti à dache, personne ne sait où.
He dropped everything and went off to who-knows-where, nobody knows where.
Origin
'Dache' is Marseille slang, a twist on 'diache', itself a northern French dialect stand-in for 'diable' (devil), making it a cousin of 'aller au diable'. On record since at least 1866.
Where
Marseille
Source
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