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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... idioms. English speakers are led to think they are buying a pig in a sack and fail to look inside before plunking down hard cash. In the old confidence game, a swindler would actually have a cat— instead of a pig—in the poke. Thus, the ...
... idiom for suggesting that merchandise is being offered at rock—bottom prices, more literally, “at the lowest possible prices.” The verb étudier means “study,” giving us in this idiom the image of a merchant staying up late at night ...
... idiom is especially interesting—and amusing—in that the long hyphenated word within it translates literally as “go—as—I-push-you.” a la va-vite (ah lah vah-VEET) in a hurry In this idiom va-vite translates literally as “go quickly.” a ...
... idioms: aller a toute vapeur (ah toot vah-PUHR), “go full steam ahead,” a locution that evokes the image of a steamship—vapeur means “steam”—putting everything it has into a rapid ocean crossing. Thus, we may translate aller a toute ...
... idiom, usually translated as “depress the accelerator.” While anyone who is even slightly familiar with French cuisine knows that the usual meaning of champignon is “mushroom,” early automobile accelerators were thought to bear some ...