Le Mot du Jour

to sleep in – French expression

faire la grasse matinée. faire – to do or to make, la – the, grasse – fat, matinée – morning. faire la grasse matinée means to sleep later than usual, to stay in bed, ‘to sleep in’.

* « Ma réunion est dans l’après-midi et j’ai pu faire la grasse matinée. Je me sens super bien. »

* “My meeting is in the afternoon and I was able to sleep in this morning. I feel really great.”

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It’s freezing cold – French Expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | Vocabulary Lists 

What does the French expression ‘un froid de canard’ mean? What does it sound like? How is it used in a sentence? Listen to Anne.

As the weather is getting colder and colder in France, I was thinking of that funny expression: un froid de canard. Literally, a cold of duck, a duck’s cold. un froid de canard means that it’s freezing cold. I think the expression comes from hunting ducks in the fall, when hunters stand in freezing waters for extended periods of time and they get frozen to the bones. un froid de canard, as many weather expressions, uses FAIRE, an irregular verb.

* ” Moi, j’reste pas là à m’geler dans la voiture, t’es malade. Il fait un froid de canard.”

* “I’m not gonna stay here and freeze, you’re nuts. It’s freezing cold.”

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chauvinism – French expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | Visit France

esprit de clocher – spirit of church tower, steeple. People who have an ‘esprit de clocher‘ stick together, they are biased by their own kind. In everyday French, esprit de clocher means ‘for your team’, for your kind’, ‘chauvinistic’.

* « Ben t’as pas trop l’esprit de clocher si tu votes pour l’équipe belge. Je sais qu’ils parlent français, mais quand même 🙂  »

* “Well, you’re not too chauvinistic if you vote for the Belgian team. I know they speak French, but still :-)”

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vivre – habiter – demeurer – Bitesize

 

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hubbub – French expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | Use French Expressions

What does ” rififi ” mean? How do you say ‘ hubbub ’ in French? How is it pronounced? How is it used in a French sentence? Listen to Anne, a French native say it at FrenchHour.com.

rififi – sometimes I just love the sound of French words. This one is fun: RIFIFI. I can’t really translate it literally. Rififi is an oldish word that means that there is a lot of noise, confusion and rumble about something. It’ often used in newspapers articles.

* « Ce matin, le canard titrait: Rififi autour du Scandale Durand. »

* “This morning, the paper’s headline read: hubbub around the Durand scandal.”

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dare-dare

fissa

 

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at dusk – French expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | Practice French Expressions

What does the French expression ‘entre chien et loup’ mean? How is it used in a sentence? Listen to Anne.

entre chien et loup – between dog and wolf. entre chien et loup means ‘at dusk’, ‘at twilight’. It describes that hour when it’s difficult to see well, between day and night, when you can’t really see if you’re looking at a dog or at a wolf. entre chien et loup is used a lot when talking about driving.

* « Ne conduis pas trop vite ce soir, on est entre chien et loup et on ne voit pas bien. »

* “Don’t drive too fast this evening; at dusk, you cannot see well.”

Tenses and modes

présent : on est entre chien et loup

imparfait : on était entre chien et loup

futur : on sera entre chien et loup

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to cost an arm and a leg – French expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | Practice French Expressions

coûter la peau des fesses – to cost the skin of one’s derrière, bottom. In everyday French, coûter la peau des fesses means to be very expensive, unaffordable, ‘to cost an arm and a leg’.

* « Je [ne] peux pas aller avec eux au ski cette année. Ça coûte la peau des fesses. »

* ‘I can’t go skiing with them this year. It costs an arm and a leg.’

Tenses and modes

présent : ça coûte la peau des fesses

passé composé : ça a coûté la peau des fesses

futur : ça coûtera la peau des fesses

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un temps de chien – French expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | Weather Vocabulary

un temps de chien– a weather of dog, a tense of dog. Poor dog, it seems that ‘a dog’s weather’ is always rainy, cold or windy, or all of the above. un temps de chien means ‘bad weather’, ‘lousy weather’.

* « On ne va pas pouvoir aller se balader car il fait un temps de chien. »

* “We won’t be able to go for a stroll because the weather is really lousy.“

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jeter un froid – French expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | Weather Vocabulary

jeter un froid – to throw a cold. jeter un froid, in everyday French, means ‘to put a damper on’, ‘to cast a chill’, ‘to rain on the parade’.

* ” Il s’est garé à la place bébé du supermarché et ça a jeté un froid parmi nous dans la voiture.”

* “He parked in the baby place of the supermarket and it cast a chill among us in the car.”

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a date – French expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | Valentine’s Day

What does ” un rencard ” mean? How do you say ‘ a date ’ in French? How is it pronounced? How is it used in a French sentence? Listen to Anne, a French native say it at FrenchHour.com

un rencard can also be spelled with a t at the end – un rencart. Go figure! un rencard is familiar French, and it means ‘a date’. If you want to be more sophisticated, you’d say ‘un rendez-vous amoureux’.

* « Je peux pas venir avec toi faire des courses samedi. J’ai un rencard avec Matthieu. J’ai hâte. »

* “I can’t go shopping with you on Saturday. I have a date with Mat. I can’ wait.”

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to make a mistake – French expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | Reflexive Verbs – List

se tromper – oneself to mislead. se tromper means ‘to make a mistake’.

* « Oh là là ! Je me suis trompé. Elle m’avait donné rendez-vous dans le VIème, mais comme elle avait écrit son message avec un chiffre romain, j’ai inversé et je suis allée dans le IVème. »

* ‘Oh dear ! I made a mistake. She had given me a meeting point in the sixth arrondissement, but because she wrote her message with a Roman numeral, I switched the numbers and I went to the fourth arrondissement.’

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