Ne nous flattez pas le dé = Speak out without any reserve.
[Flatter le dé is to let the dice slide gently out of the box.]
“Car madame à jaser tient le dé tout le jour” = Madame engrosses the conversation all day long.
[Molière, Tartufe, i. 1.]
Débandade
Ils laissèrent tout à la débandade = They left all at sixes and sevens, in confusion.
Fuir à la débandade = To fly helter-skelter.
Débit
Le ministre lui a accordé un débit de tabac = The minister has given him a license to sell tobacco.
[The sale of tobacco, snuff, gunpowder, and cards is a Government monopoly in France.]