A growing list of words and phrases that I come across and like. More for me, but you can use it too, non?

  • Bagatelle: a thing of little importance; a very easy task.

  • Hagiography: biography that idealizes its subject. 

  • Rigmarole: a long, rambling story or statement. a lengthy and complicated procedure.

  • Manqué : having failed to become what one might have been; unfulfilled.

  • Trompe l'oeil: visual illusion in art

  • Blasé: unimpressed or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before.

  • Oubliette: a secret dungeon with access only through a trapdoor in its ceiling.

  • Puerile: childishly silly and trivial

  • Guignol: dramatic entertainment featuring the gruesome or horrible

  • Sobremesa: the Spanish tradition of relaxing at the table after a heavy meal

  • Penny wise and pound foolish: Prudent and thrifty with small amounts of money, but wasteful and profligate with large amounts