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to feel like home – French expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | French Wine

What does ” avoir le goût du terroir ” mean? How do you say ‘ to feel like home ’ 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.

avoir le goût du terroir – to have the taste of the local. In everyday French, avoir le goût du terroir can describe something literally and figuratively. It has a positive connotation and describes all the features of a particular region, of its taste, its climate and its people. As a non-literal expression I often translate it as ‘to feel like home’.

* « Ces galettes ont un bon goût de terroir. Miam miam ! »

* “These buckwheat crepes really feel like home. Yummy!”

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Tenses and Modes

* présent : Ces galettes ont un bon goût de terroir.

* conditionnel présent : Ces galettes aurait un bon goût de terroir si elles étaient cuites.

* subjonctif présent : Il faut que ces galettes aient un bon goût de terroir.

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French Labor Day –  French expression

Part of Le Mot du Jour | Merry Month of May

le premier mai – the first May. le premier mai is also called ‘la fête du travail’ which means ‘work holiday’, or ‘labor day’. le premier mai is ‘May Day’ or ‘French Labor Day’. It is celebrated on May 1 every year. French workers and Unions march in the streets of all major cities after they bought a twig of lily of the valley.

* « Le premier mai, c’est la fête du travail. On achète un brin de muguet, on va au défilé des syndicats, et ensuite, on passe la journée avec les potes. »

* “ May Day is Labor Day. We buy a lily of the valley, we march with the unions, and then we spend the day with our friends .”

 

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to be unrealistic – French expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | My Health

What does the French expression ‘ fumer la moquette ’ mean? Use it in a sentence.

fumer la moquette – to smoke the carpeting. In everyday French, ‘fumer la moquette’ means two things.

First, it means to smoke pot. I’m not sure where that comes from. Is it because you’re ready to smoke carpeting if you don’t have pot anymore, or is it that carpeting looks like grass?

Its second meaning, gaining popularity, is that someone is out of their mind , unrealistic.

* « Ils disent que leur retraite va leur payer un appart sur l’Île Saint-Louis. Ils ont fumé la moquette. »

* “They say their retirement plan is going to get them a condo on the Île- Saint Louis (in Paris). They’re unrealistic.”

Tenses and Modes

* présent : ils fument la moquette

* passé composé : ils ont fumé la moquette

* futur : ils fumeront la moquette

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to meet halfway – French expression

What does ” eau dans son vin ” mean? How do you say ‘ to meet halfway ’ 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.

mettre de l’eau dans son vin – to put some the water in his/her wine. In everyday French, mettre de l’eau dans son vin means that you agree to compromise with someone, ‘to make concessions’, to meet someone halfway’.

* « Il a mis beaucoup d’eau dans son vin avec elle et leur relation est bien meilleure maintenant. »

* “He’s been meeting her halfway a lot and their relationship is a lot better now.”

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to meet halfway – French expression

What does ” eau dans son vin ” mean? How do you say ‘ to meet halfway ’ 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.

mettre de l’eau dans son vin – to put some the water in his/her wine. In everyday French, mettre de l’eau dans son vin means that you agree to compromise with someone, ‘to make concessions’, to meet someone halfway’.

* « Il a mis beaucoup d’eau dans son vin avec elle et leur relation est bien meilleure maintenant. »

* “He’s been meeting her halfway a lot and their relationship is a lot better now.”

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to nip in the bud – French expression

Part of Practice French Expressions | Easter

tuer (étouffer) dans l’œuf – to kill (choke) in the egg. tuer dans l’œuf means ‘to stop something right then’, ‘to nip in the bud’.

* « Y avait une rumeur au bureau que tu sortais avec Patrick. Mais t’inquiète, je l’ai tuée dans l’œuf. »

* “There was a rumor at the office about you going out with Patrick. But no worries, I nipped it in the bud.”

Conjugué – Conjugated

je l’ai tuée dans l’œuf – I nipped it in the bud

tu les tueras dans l’œuf – you will nip them in the bud

elle la tuait dans l’œuf à chaque fois –  she would nip it in the bud every time

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it’s worth it – French expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | Conjugated Verbs

ça vaut le coup – it worth the blow. ça vaut le coup means ‘it’s worth it’. It’s often used with DE: ça vaut le coup de  + verb… means ‘it’s worth …’. And then you have the negative form ça (ne) vaut pas le coup, which means ‘it’s not worth it’, ‘it’s not worth …’.

* « Ça vaut pas le coup de faire réparer la voiture, elle est trop vieille. »

* “It’s not worth having the car repaired, it’s too old.”

Let’s listen to the same sentence in the subjunctive mode:

* « Je ne crois pas que ça vaille le coup de faire réparer la voiture, elle est trop vieille. »

* “I don’t think it’s not worth having the car repaired, it’s too old.”

 

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to blow a fuse – French expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | French Idiomatic Expressions

What does the French expression ‘péter les plombs’ mean? How is it used in a sentence? How do you say ‘to blow a fuse’? Listen to Anne’s audio below.

péter les plombs – to break or to pass wind (to fart, really) the fuses. péter les plombs is a familiar French expression, I wouldn’t use it everywhere. In everyday French, péter les plombs means ‘to blow a fuse’, ‘to lose it, to go nuts.

A variant is ‘sauter les plombs’.

* « Entre la crise, le confinement, s’occuper des gosses, le ménage et le télétravail, elle a pété les plombs. »

* “Between the crisis, being confined, having to take care of the kids, the house work, and working from home, she blew a fuse.”

 

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le train-train – French expression

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What does the French expression ‘ le train-train ’ mean? How is it used in a sentence? Listen to Anne’s audio.

le train-train or le train-train quotidien – the train-train or the daily train-train – has nothing to do with a train. It describes an uneventful daily routine, the daily grind. I’d translate it by ‘same ol’ same ol” or ‘as usual’.

* « Alors, quoi d’neuf ? Bof, pas grand-chose, le train-train. »

* “So, what’s up? Well, not much, same ol’ same ol’.”

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to be out to lunch — French expression

Part of Mots Du Jour | Learn Idiomatic Expressions

être à l’ouest – to be West of here. être à l’ouest, in everyday French, means to not be well in one’s mind, ‘to be out there’ or ‘to be out to lunch’.

* «  Il est complètement à l’ouest, et pourtant, il est président de cette assoce. Incroyable !  »

* “He is totally out to lunch, and yet, he’s the president of this association. Unbelievable !”

 

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