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Pour des prunes

Pour des prunes

Une prune is a plum - not to be confused with un pruneau, a prune.  While this lovely fruit is fully appreciated for its nutrition properties nowadays, it has also long been associated with something of little or no value in French.  If you do...

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À la queue leu leu

À la queue leu leu

The poetry of those words!  They are a favorite of preschoolers.  But you will also hear them in the long lines of traffic that characterize French life during strike season - which invariably coincides with the holiday season.  However, it is...

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Une image d'Epinal

Une image d'Epinal

When you’re told that you're providing une image d'Epinal - an Épinal print - it means you only show the good side of things, in a somewhat naive and reductive way.  An image d'Épinal is equivalent to a rose-colored cliché, an idealized view, a...

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Claire BARTHELEMY
6 December 2022
Un coup de main

Un coup de main

Every once in a while, you come across a vocabulary word with a lot of potential. The French word coup is one of them; it is used in a wide range of expressions that seem mostly unrelated to each other, and sometimes even contradictory.On its...

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Claire BARTHELEMY
7 November 2022
Être au bout du rouleau

Être au bout du rouleau

"To be at the end of the roll" isn't a good place to be.  Whether the roll is a paint roll (un...

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Claire BARTHELEMY
October 4, 2022
Se la couler douce

Se la couler douce

Je me la coule douce is a lovely expression which we hope you can still use for a few more days...

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August 17, 2022
Pédaler dans la choucroute

Pédaler dans la choucroute

This is another (weird) expression directly related to the Tour de France - which ended on July...

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July 25, 2022
La lanterne rouge

La lanterne rouge

Être la lanterne rouge - to be the red lantern - means to come last in a ranking, or list. The...

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July 20, 2022
Faire la grasse matinée

Faire la grasse matinée

What a luxury to pull a fluffy pillow over your ears while the birds break the silence of the...

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June 28, 2022
Un Papa Gâteau

Un Papa Gâteau

Here is a legitimate question to ask on Father's day: is Dad un Papa Gâteau?Literally translated...

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June 15, 2022

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La fin des haricots

La fin des haricots

Literally translated as the end of the beans, la fin des haricots usually comes with a sigh and...

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June 8, 2022
Un Violon D'Ingres

Un Violon D'Ingres

Un violon d'Ingres (silent s) is not to be confused with "un violon dingue"  (a crazy violin) -...

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May 24, 2022
Muet comme une carpe

Muet comme une carpe

Channel your inner fish and don't say a word.  Muet comme une carpe - mute as a carp - is...

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May 18, 2022
C'est un navet!

C'est un navet!

This phrase is something you wouldn't be surprised to hear at a farmer's market, since un...

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May 11, 2022
À fleur de peau

À fleur de peau

Here is an elegant and visual expression that will impress any audience.  Être à fleur de peau...

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May 4, 2022
Tenir la chandelle

Tenir la chandelle

Tenir la chandelle may sound like an easy task but it can leave you desperate for an escape...

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April 19, 2022
Chanter comme une casserole

Chanter comme une casserole

Francophones seem particularly bothered by the clattering of saucepans and this has inspired a...

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April 13, 2022
Jeter l'eponge

Jeter l'eponge

Literally to throw the sponge, jeter l'éponge is the French equivalent of the English expression...

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April 6, 2022
Jouer l'Arlésienne

Jouer l'Arlésienne

This expression is a unique French idiom that translates literally to playing the girl from...

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March 29, 2022
Découvrir le pot aux roses

Découvrir le pot aux roses

This charming expression involves roses, presumably sitting in a planter - pot - which must have...

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March 8, 2022
Un autre son de cloche

Un autre son de cloche

Literally, the expression translates into another (a different) bell sound. When you strike or...

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March 1, 2022
Rire comme une baleine

Rire comme une baleine

Perhaps you have heard of La Vache Qui Rit - The Laughing Cow?  Well, move over Laughing Cow! ...

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February 22, 2022
Avoir le coup de foudre (pour...)

Avoir le coup de foudre (pour...)

Foudre means lightning, and un coup de foudre is a lightning bolt -  useful vocabulary if you're...

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February 15, 2022
Plein comme un oeuf

Plein comme un oeuf

Literally translated as, “full as an egg,” it is a colloquial simile applied to a thing or a...

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February 8, 2022
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