Provençal expression

siéu dins mi cinq crous

Weather and Time

Literal translation

I am in my five crosses.

Meaning

to be between forty and fifty years old

Explanation

I am in my five crosses: a usual way of placing one's age by decade, here between forty and fifty years old.

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