Literal translation
to have an outing at the cabanon
Meaning
to spend a day at the cabanon (country cottage)
Explanation
A cabanoun started out as a modest structure in the fields or by the sea, shelter for a farmer or a fisherman, since Provence is a land of clustered villages where cultivated land often lay far from home. It became a lively Marseille tradition in the twentieth century : owning a cabanon to spend holidays there, eating outdoors, fishing, playing boules and cards, napping, swimming. The phrase names that whole day, on the model of a game of boules or cards.