“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 cleanto spill the beansto let the cat out of the bag On good French definition on wordreference.com is “finir…
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”.
“Remettre les pendules à l’heure” is fun figurative French expression that translates literally to “to put the clocks back to the [right] hour.” Here are a few English meaings: to set the record straightto lay it on the lineto make no bones about something A French meaning of the expression according to expressio.fr is to…