Être dans les petits papiers is a French expression meaning to be in someone’s good graces.
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David Issokson
“Prendre des vessies pour les lanternes” is a fascinating French expression that translates literally to: “to mistaken bladders for lanterns”. English meanings include the following: Culturally, pigs’ bladders were used as lanterns in mines. Expressio.fr gives an interesting definition in French: “To make grotesque illusions about things and people” and “to fail miserable in one’s …
The French expression “se mettre à table” is interesting in that it’s literal translation is “to sit down at the table”, while its real meaning is totally different. English translation of the idiom include: to come clean to spill the beans to let the cat out of the bag On good French definition on wordreference.com …
Raconter des salades is one of those French expressions which has a meaning that’s impossible to guess. The expression translates literally to “to tell salads” and means to tell stories, tall tales, to spin a yarn or simply “to lie”.
Deux poids deux mesures is a French expression that means “to have a double standard”.
