mille fois merde

[Estella]

A friend of mine texted me a message to encourage me before I took the DELF exam. She wrote "Mille fois merde!" Does this mean something like "bon chance"?

 

[Keith Bradford]

It does indeed. Or rather bonne chance.

 

[Estella]

Thank you Keith!

 

[akaAJ]

In the same spirit as well-wishers telling actors about to go on stage "Break a leg!", or my grandmother feigning spitting to either side of my face.