Matignon
/ˈmatɪnjɒ̃/ /matɪˈnjɒ̃/noun
1 French Polit. Matignon agreement noun an agreement mediated by the French government in 1936 between representatives of employers' and workers' organizations, giving workers the right to organize trade unions, and guaranteeing wage increases, limits on working hours, etc.
2The French Prime Minister and his or her staff regarded as a group or body; the French Prime Minister's office.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in American Political Science Review. From the name of the Hôtel Matignon, the official residence of the prime minister of France since 1935, in the Rue de Varenne in Paris.
- the course of nature
- the Court Circular
- the Craft
- the cream of the crop
- the Creation
- the Creator
- the Creed
- the Crescent
- the Cross
- the Crown
- the Crucifixion
- the Curragh
- the cut of someone's jib
- the damage is done
- the dark ages
- the darkest hour is just before the dawn
- the dead heart (also the dead centre)
- the dead of night
- the dead of winter
- the dead ring of
- the deal
- the debit side
- the deep end
- the Deity
- the Depression