pontoon bridge

Pont-Aven (a town in the Finistère department, Brittany, France)

(figuratively) to take a long weekend; to take an extra day off work in addition to a public holiday that falls on a Thursday or Tuesday, thereby making a four-day weekend. If the public holiday falls on Wednesday, the individual has the option of taking either Monday and Tuesday or Thursday and Friday off

(informal, Belgium) to be expensive, to cost an arm and a leg

(military) bridgehead

Pont-Saint-Martin (a town in the Loire-Atlantique department, France)

(simile) very solid, rock solid / (simile) in the pink of health, fit as a fiddle

laying of eggs / laying season

a person of influence, a mogul

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