{"id":50091,"date":"2026-08-25T01:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.angle-vivant.net\/florages\/?p=50091"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:38:07","slug":"cardboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angle-vivant.net\/florages\/?p=50091","title":{"rendered":"Cardboard."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The word <strong>cardboard<\/strong> appears in a few slang expressions and idioms, most notably relating to <mark>fake or cheap qualities<\/mark>, or inspiring French colloquialisms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Common Slang and Idioms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Cardboard character:<\/strong> A flat, poorly written, or unrealistic person in a story or movie who lacks emotional depth.<\/li><li><strong>Cardboard city:<\/strong> A slang term for a makeshift shantytown or area where homeless people sleep in cardboard boxes.<\/li><li><strong>Cockney rhyming slang:<\/strong> In traditional British rhyming slang, a \u00ab\u00a0cardboard box\u00a0\u00bb is sometimes used as a rhyme for <em>syphilis<\/em>. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>French Connection (<em>Cartonner<\/em>)In French slang, the word for cardboard\u2014<em>carton<\/em>\u2014gives life to the popular verb <strong>cartonner<\/strong>, meaning to be a massive success or hit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>This comes from mid-20th-century carnival shooting galleries where hitting the cardboard target (<em>faire un carton<\/em>) meant you scored big<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardboard is <mark>a heavy, stiff paper-based material used to make boxes, packaging, and crafts<\/mark>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Physical Definition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Material<\/strong>: Thick, pressed paper pulp or paperboard.<\/li><li><strong>Types<\/strong>: Ranges from single-ply heavy paper to multi-layer corrugated fiberboard.<\/li><li><strong>Color<\/strong>: Usually light brown, grey, or white. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Figurative Meaning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an adjective, <strong>cardboard<\/strong> describes something that is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Flimsy<\/strong>: Thin, weak, or lacking physical strength (\u00ab\u00a0cardboard walls\u00a0\u00bb).<\/li><li><strong>Shallow<\/strong>: Unreal, fake, or lacking emotional depth, like poorly written characters in a story.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word cardboard appears in a few slang expressions and idioms, most notably relating to fake or cheap qualities, or inspiring French colloquialisms. Common Slang and Idioms Cardboard character: A flat, poorly written, or unrealistic person in a story or movie who lacks emotional depth. Cardboard city: A slang term for a makeshift shantytown or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angle-vivant.net\/florages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angle-vivant.net\/florages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angle-vivant.net\/florages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angle-vivant.net\/florages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angle-vivant.net\/florages\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.angle-vivant.net\/florages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50093,"href":"https:\/\/www.angle-vivant.net\/florages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50091\/revisions\/50093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angle-vivant.net\/florages\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angle-vivant.net\/florages\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angle-vivant.net\/florages\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}