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Find answers to the weirdest questions about the French!
Do French people really eat frogs and snails?
Yes! Frogs’ legs are a delicacy much appreciated by French gourmets. And snails are eaten all over Europe, including in the UK. Unfortunately, neither snails nor frogs’ legs are very filling!
Many French words are used in English, just as lots of English words are used in French:
rendezvous: a meeting, especially a romantic one!
café: a coffee bar or a small, inexpensive restaurant.
gourmet: a lover of fine food.
Can you think of any others?
Transparent words and words which look alike:
un menu; un chef; un biscuit; un restaurant; une question; important; un monument
un béret/beret; une rivière/river; une capitale/capital; la musique/music; embarrassant/embarrassing; un avantage/advantage; stupide/stupid; une princesse/princess
Here are some more – can you guess what they are in English?
une lampe; un pull-over; un pyjama; un jean
Discover the Funniest French Expressions!
French expression = literal incorrect translation
An English equivalent
Filer à l’anglaise = To spin in the English way
To take French leave
Nous ne sommes pas sortis de l’auberge = We are not out of the inn
We are not out of the woods
Avoir le cafard= to have the cockroach
To have the blues
Casser la croûte = to break the crust
To have a bite
Appuyer sur le champignon = to press on the mushroom
To accelerate
Aller au petit coin = to go to the little corner
To go to the loo
C’est du tout cuit = it is all cooked
It’s in the bag
Un froid de canard = a cold of duck
Perishing weather
Pas folle la guêpe ! = Not crazy the wasp!
I’m/You’re/He’s/She’s no fool
La fin des haricots= The end of the beans
The last straw
Rire jaune = To laugh yellow
To give a hollow laugh
Etre marteau = To be hammer
To be crazy
Broyer du noir = To crush black
To be depressed
Ça ne mange pas de pain = It doesn’t eat bread
It is not important
Une poule mouillée = A wet chicken
A coward
Donner sa langue au chat = To give the cat one’s tongue
To give up
Passer un savon = To pass a soap
To tear a strip off someone
Se mettre sur son trente et un = To put oneself on one’s thirty one
To dress up in one’s finest clothes
En voiture Simone = In the car Simone!
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