Les Bons Mots: How to Amaze Tout Le Monde with Everyday FrenchHenry Holt and Company, 2013 M09 17 - 336 páginas Les Bons Mots will help you add the piece de resistance to any conversation. |
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... can 't be too rich or too thin Also rendered freely as “opulence does no harm," and literally as “abundance of good things does no harm." And this is why we're told that if you've got it, flaunt it! The Persian proverb given above in ...
... make bricks without straw, an impossibility. Thus, the English observation “you can't make bricks without straw” cautions against attempting the impossible. aller (ah-LAY) go This infinitive and its various verb forms.
... can 't avoid a root canal job More conventionally translated as “desperate diseases demand desperate remedies” and, literally, “for great ills, great remedies.” As long as Medicare is solvent. aux idiots l'argent file entre les doigts ...
... can't win 'em all. bon a rien (bawn nah ryan) ne 'er-do-well More literally, “good-for-nothing.” bon avocat, mal voisin (bawn nah vaw-KAH mahl vwah-ZAN) good lawyer, bad neighbor Telling us, as though we needed the prompting, that those ...
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