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Laissez les bon temps roules

English translation: Let the good times roll.

01:34 May 27, 2004
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
French term or phrase: Laissez les bon temps roules
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English translation:Let the good times roll.
Explanation:
personal knowledge

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Note added at 2 hrs 47 mins (2004-05-27 04:22:38 GMT)
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See http://www.cajunculture.com/Other/laissez.htm Laissez les bons temps rouler!\" is a Cajun expression meaning \"Let the good times roll!\" It strongly conveys the \"joie de vivre\" (\"joy of living\") attitude that pervades south Louisiana.
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Jeanne Zang
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Local time: 07:49
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Summary of answers provided
5 +18Let the good times roll.
Jeanne Zang
4Let the good times go on
elysee
2play on words?
Bourth (X)


  

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58 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Laissez les bons temps roules
Let the good times go on


Explanation:
il y a une erreur dans la question ...LES BONS
(il manque le "S" à BONS....au pluriel !)

elysee
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Local time: 13:49
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +18
Let the good times roll.


Explanation:
personal knowledge

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Note added at 2 hrs 47 mins (2004-05-27 04:22:38 GMT)
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See http://www.cajunculture.com/Other/laissez.htm Laissez les bons temps rouler!\" is a Cajun expression meaning \"Let the good times roll!\" It strongly conveys the \"joie de vivre\" (\"joy of living\") attitude that pervades south Louisiana.

Jeanne Zang
United States
Local time: 07:49
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  RHELLER: yes, but accounting ??? :-)
20 mins
agree  reliable
21 mins
agree  swisstell: very much New Orleans - the Big Easy (where they do not translate it, however).
27 mins
agree  Vicky Papaprodromou
40 mins
agree  Julie Roy: I don't think you can say that in French though... Anyone ever heard it?
1 hr
agree  Jean-Claude Gouin: That's what it means ... but the French isn't French!
2 hrs
agree  truptee: Actually, I have never heard or read anyone say this either!
2 hrs
agree  Randa Farhat: Louisiana cajun, http://www.dailyworld.com/html/8B978A87-0565-4903-936E-BA619...
3 hrs
agree  Saleh Ayyub
3 hrs
agree  Edith Kelly
3 hrs
agree  jerrie: Sure we've had this one before!
3 hrs
agree  Oana Apetrei
4 hrs
agree  Martin Perazzo: The French is actually a poor translation into French of an American adage! (Let the good times roll)
5 hrs
agree  Aisha Maniar
6 hrs
agree  Laura Robertson
6 hrs
agree  ben baudoin
8 hrs
agree  Tom Bishop
14 hrs
agree  technomiko (X): eh, dialects, you should hear what they say in Martinique
12 days
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
play on words?


Explanation:
If it IS "Laissez les bons temps roulER" as others have suggested, then it is indeed "Let the good times roll".

However, if it is as you have spelt it, and if it is not a spelling mistake for the above, then "Laissez les bons temps roulés" COULD mean something like "Let bygones be bygones", "Leave the (good times of the) past behind us", "Let's forget the good old days".

It is unlikely, I should think, but not impossible. Only you can tell from your context. Note that since "roulés" and "rouler" are pronounced the same, the play on words would only work in the written form.

Bourth (X)
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