(figuratively) to find no one at home

Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (a city in the Essonne department, France)

(idiomatic) to be hungover

(figuratively) to use all available means, to use everything at one's disposal, to take advantage of every resource in one's environment, to put everything to good use, to be resourceful

(figuratively) to catch as catch can (to use all available means, to use everything at one's disposal, to take advantage of every resource in one's environment, to be resourceful)

Alternative form of cautère sur une jambe de bois

Alternative form of emplâtre sur une jambe de bois

Alternative form of cataplasme sur une jambe de bois

(informal) what someone is made of, what someone is capable of, someone's true mettle

(Louisiana, Cajun, St.Martin Parish) to be in distress