Common French idiomatic expressions with their literal and figurative meanings, one idiom per card. Front: the French word or phrase. Back: English meaning.
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- Avoir un chat dans la gorge
- To have a hoarse voice
- Casser les pieds
- To annoy or bother someone
- Coûter les yeux de la tête
- To be very expensive
- Donner sa langue au chat
- To give up, admit defeat in a guessing game
- Être dans les nuages
- To be daydreaming, lost in thought
- Avoir des fourmis
- To have a pins and needles sensation
- Faire la tête
- To sulk or pout
- Avoir la boule au ventre
- To be nervous or anxious
- Mettre son grain de sel
- To interfere or meddle
- Avoir un poil dans la main
- To be lazy
- Chercher midi à quatorze heures
- To overcomplicate or make trouble where there is none
- Coup de foudre
- Love at first sight
- Crever de rire
- To laugh very hard, burst out laughing
- Être sur un nuage
- To be very happy, elated
- Faire chou blanc
- To fail, have no success