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31 Cards in this Set
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To call a spade a spade |
Appeler un chat un chat |
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To cost an arm and a leg |
Coûter les yeux de la tête |
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To drink like a fish |
Boire comme un trou |
To drink like a hole |
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To be completely useless |
Ne rien savoir faire de ses dix doigts |
Not knowing how to do anything with one’s ten fingers |
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Entering a situation at the most awkward moment |
Arriver comme un cheveu sur la soupe |
To arrive like a hair in the soup |
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To give someone an unsolicited or unnecessary opinion |
Mettre son grain de sel |
To put in one’s grain of salt |
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To have a lie-in |
Faire la grasse matinée |
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It’s a shame |
C’est dommage |
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Love at first sight |
Coup de foudre |
A strike of lightening |
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I’m just saying (passive aggressive) |
Je dis ça, je dis rien |
I say that, I say nothing |
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That works |
Ça marche |
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To move from topic to topic (in conversation)/ this is totally unrelated... |
Sauter du coq à l’âne |
To jump from the rooster to the donkey |
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Being crazy or out of it |
Être à l’ouest |
To be in the west (ex: I was completely out of it) |
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To get angry |
La moutarde me/lui monte au nez |
The mustard is getting to my nose |
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To have a good ear (e.g. for music) |
Avoir une bonne oreille |
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Oh my god! |
Ah, la vache! |
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Hurt your ears |
Casser les oreilles |
E.g. when the music is too loud |
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To be driven mad |
Devenir chêvre |
As in, to get angry |
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Stop your bluffing! |
Arrête ton char! |
Literally means: stop your chariot |
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Refuse to go out with you (a date) |
Se prendre/ prendre un râteau |
Literally means: gives you the rake |
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To do something ridiculous |
Faire l’andouille |
Literally means: to make the sausage |
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Splitting hairs |
Chercher la petite bête |
Literally means: to look for the little beast |
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Splitting hairs |
Chercher la petite bête |
Literally means: to look for the little beast |
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English equivalent: dressing to the 9s |
Etre sur son 31 |
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To pass out/ lose consciousness |
Tomber dans les pommes |
Literally means: to fall in apples |
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There is something wrong |
Il y a quelque chose qui cloche |
Literally means: there is something ringing |
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It’s extremely cold |
Faire un froid de canard |
Literally means: to do a cold of ducks |
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To have a frog in the throat |
Avoir un chat dans la gorge |
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To be sick of it |
En avoir ras le bol |
Literally means: to have a bowl full of it |
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To lend a hand |
Donner un coup de main |
Literally means: to give a knock of hand |
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To give your best/ to give it your all |
Être au taquet |
Literally means: to be at a piece of wood |
