Il est trop chou.
Expressions sur la nourriture
French food idioms
AUDIO below, with Anne's French accent
| FRANÇAIS | LITTERAL | ENGLISH |
| à boire et à manger | to drink and to eat | a little bit of everything, you have to pick and choose |
| aller au fourneau | to go to the (wood) stove | to go to work |
| avoir du pain sur la planche | to have bread on the cutting board | to have a lot to do |
| avoir la banane | to have the banana | to be really happy, to be upbeat |
| avoir la patate | to have the potato | to be really happy, to be energetic |
| avoir la pêche | to have the peach | to be really happy, to be positive |
| avoir le cul (of.) bordé de nouilles | to have the ass surrounded with noodles | to be very lucky |
| avoir un cœur d’artichaut | to have an artichoke heart | to be fickle in love |
| avoir/prendre de la bouteille | to have/take some of the bottle | to be/get older |
| boire du petit lait | to drink whey | to lap it up |
| boire un canon | to drink a canon | to have a drink |
| c’est pas de la tarte | it’s not pie | it’s tough, tricky |
| c’est pas du gâteau | it’s not cake | it’s not easy, it’s tricky |
| ça ne mange pas de pain | it doesn’t eat any bread | it doesn’t cost/hurt anythingit won’t have any consequence |
| casser du sucre sur son dos | to break sugar onto his/her back | to badmouth someone |
| changer de crèmerie | to change dairy store | to have a new favorite place to hang out or to shop to, to change opinion |
| chanter comme une casserole | to sing like a saucepan | to not be able to carry a tune |
| comme un cheveu sur la soupe | like one hair in the soup | to be, feel out of place |
| couper la poire en deux | to cut the pear into two parts | to split the difference, to share |
| cracher dans la soupe | to spit in the soup | to bite the hand that feeds you |
| cuisiner quelqu’un | to cook someone | to question someone (fam) |
| des tartines | open slice of bread | tons of |
| en avoir gros sur la patate | to feel fat on the potato | to be down in the dumps, to be very sad |
| en faire des tartines | to make open slices of bread out of it | to make a scene, to do too much |
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That was Anne’s native take on a French expression. Bonne journée française !
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