Made myself so small

• 1. "Be discreet", "to keep a low profile", "to belittle oneself", "make oneself inconspicuous", "laid low", "made oneself tiny", all these expressions can work too.
• 2. "fly" (the insect, therefore) is in double ways here, "fine mouche" (French popular expression) applies to people endowed with subtle intelligence and endowed with a great sense of intuition. Example: She immediately smelled the case, it's a fine fly!. But it also designates the fly which is used by the aristocracy in the XVIII century for face make-up - a small black point that the woman placed on her white face. "The fly," in the art of makeup, was part of an established code that everyone had to know at the French King's court. It was one of the art of good behavior rules. Where the woman placed it, the fly delivered a message. For example, when it was placed near the mouth, it meant that the woman was open to a possible encounter, that she was free, in fact ...
• 3. ** "Periwinkle" (Pervenche) This word in French indicates a woman police officer who draws up the reports of infractions of the highway code and more particularly, the bad parking. Their real name is "contractual" (contractuelle). But the French gave them the nickname "periwinkle" because the color of their uniform was similar to that of the flower.
  But it's also possible that expression wasn't still used at the time whence this song was written, in that case, it could just désignate a young woman.

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