Pardon My French
Zoé AlbertA visual guide to thinking and speaking like a French Person
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To have the melon
For all you melon heads: “to have the melon” means exactly what you think, an inflated head, an inflated ego, someone who’s full of it !
If you’re starting to get the sense that the French love using vegetables to describe anything,...
To have a spider on the ceiling
The tea: this expression is most often traced to Parisian sex workers of the mid 19th century, who used it to describe their more, let’s say, eccentric [deranged] clients... In the metaphor, the ceiling is the top of the skull, and...
To have the cockroach
I love seeing how different languages and cultures tackle the most universal of feelings. To have the cockroach (“avoir le cafard”), feels like a surprisingly apt metaphor for that icky, restless ache of having the blues, no?
🤓Nerd...
To sweeten the strawberries
“Sucrer les fraises”, to sweeten the strawberries, paints the picture of an elderly hand sprinkling sugar over a bowl of strawberries with a slow and shaky back-and-forth motion. The trembling hand, the scattered sugar. You get the p...
To have a hair in one's hand
It's currently mid-August, which means it's basically a legal requirement to have a hair growing in your hand: to be so profoundly lazy that a single hair has taken root in your palm, undisturbed and growing with abandon!
The expres...
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