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Avoir le coup de foudre (pour...)
Foudre means lightning, and un coup de foudre is a lightning bolt - useful vocabulary if you're...
Read morePlein comme un oeuf
Literally translated as, “full as an egg,” it is a colloquial simile applied to a thing or a...
Read moreLe gratin
As cooks may already know, gratin is the generic French term for preparations (often involving...
Read moreChercher midi à 14h
Admittedly, Einstein taught us that time is relative. But looking for noon when it's 2pm seems...
Read moreUn ange passe....
At first sight, all words in this expression are easy to translate from French into English: un...
Read morePendre la Crémaillère
If you are invited to a pendaison de crémaillère, you may be surprised to find out this has...
Read moreMettre les pieds dans le plat
This French expression litterally translates as putting (one's) feet in the dish. In the...
Read moreLa Bûche de Noël
Head into any pastry shop in France in December, and you’ll find a number of incarnations of the...
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Traîner des casseroles
Frequently used in politics, the expression is one for the image conscious. It translates...
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