Expressions+idiomatiques

= = =Une expression idiomatique est une expression qui a du sens dans une langue mais qui, traduite mot à mot dans une autre langue, peut être dénuée de sens.=

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= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Comme si de rien n'était = =se lever de bonne heure (to get up early) =

= = = avoir du travail par dessus la tête (to be overloaded with work) =

=Je n'en peux plus (I've had it, I am exhausted, I can't take it any more) = [|Singuila & Marc Antoine -Je n'en peux plus] media type="custom" key="8076340" = Passer une nuit blanche (to spend a sleepness night) =

= N'en fais pas tout un fromage! (Don't make a mountain out of a molehill) = = = == =J'en ai marre! I've had enough! I'm fed up!=

== =Je suis tout feu tout flamme  ( full of enthusiasm, fired up) =

= Elle perd les pédales She is losing it=

= = = dormir comme une marmotte - to sleep like a log =



= = = travailler pour des prunes = to work for little money/for peanuts=

Cela vaut le coup or: ça vaut la peine = It's worth it.


//Attends d'avoir traversé la rivière avant de dire que le crocodile est laid.//

Ce proverbe qui vient de Zambie conseille de bien évaluer les conséquences de ce que l'on dit ou fait. Autrement dit, si on veut critiquer une personne, autant s'assurer qu'elle ne puisse pas nous barrer la route par la suite. = = =** AVOIR LE COUP DE FOUDRE (tomber amoureux dès la première minute) ** = = = =Il fait un temps de** chien (the weather is horrible)** = = =

= **têtu comme une mule (stubborn as a mule)** =



= avoir le trac to have stage fright, to have the jitters =

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entre chien et loup = twilight



===//Entre chien et loup// is a multi-layered expression. It is used to describe a specific time of day, just before night, when the light is so dim you can't distinguish a dog from a wolf. However, it's not all about levels of light. It also expresses that limit between the familiar, the comfortable versus the unknown and the dangerous (or between the domestic and the wild). It is an uncertain threshold between hope and fear.===

= **chacun** ** à son goût ** = = =
 * to each his/her own **=


 * couper les cheveux en quatre = to split hair, to complicate things **


 * tomber dans les pommes = to faint **
 * se lever du pied gauche ** **= to get out of bed on the wrong side** [[image:http://www.gifanimations.com/GA/action/SaveImage?path=Image/Animations/BodyParts/Feet/feet_002.gif]]



= avoir le bras long to be well connected=

= = = Poser un lapin à quelqu'un (ne pas venir à un rendez-vous)=

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= Tu me casses les pieds! You go on my nerves! You bore the pants off me! =

Careful with this one! register: familier, don't use it in formal communication!

Il a la pêche! He is on top of the world, in really good form.
= = == By the way: //la pêche// means "the peach" but also "fishing". "aller à la pêche": to go fishing

= C'est bonnet blanc et blanc bonnet It's six of one and half a dozen of the othe r=



Quel m'as-tu-vu! What a show off!

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