Quote Originally Posted by Jacob_Sterlov View Post
In French, Au rat means: "to the mouse / rat".

It may mean something like: "To the mouse [you go]!" But that's just my intuition.

Rat is also a familiar term to describe your beloved ones (e.g. mes rats = my pets = the mouths I must feed).
Thanks! That certainly makes it more interesting.

I had assumed that the French were just mimicking the sound that the Germans were making, and I got recordings of that sound which I took during a video of a parade by an East German Regiment.

But if it actually sounded like the French for 'to the mice' it must have been every more amusing for the French to shout it back at them.