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...

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 -...

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...

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...

"To be at the end of the roll" isn't a good place to be.  Whether the roll is a paint roll (un rouleau de peinture,) a paper roll (un rouleau de papier,) a rolling pin (rouleau...

Je me la coule douce is a lovely expression which we hope you can still use for a few more days before the busy fall season kicks in.  It literally translates as I'm flowing...

This is another (weird) expression directly related to the Tour de France - which ended on July 24 this year.Pédaler dans la choucroute literally translates as pedaling in...

Être la lanterne rouge - to be the red lantern - means to come last in a ranking, or list. The expression is mostly used to describe a person, or group, trailing behind the...