Faire l’école buissonnière is a French expression meaning to play hooky.
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The French expression “une histoire à dormir debout” translates literally to “a story to sleep standing”. A loose translation is “a story about sleeping standing up”. Unbelievable, right? Here are some English meanings: cock-and-bull story tall story The French expressions site, expressio.fr suggests “à dormir debout” means unbelievable, implausible, absurd or illogical. Il m’a raconté …
The French expression “pas très catholique” translates literally to “not very Catholic” and could definitely be seen as a bit offensive. Here are some English meanings: a bit shady not very kosher a bit fishy A French expressions site, expressio.fr, defines pas tres catholique as not conforming or complying with morality, subject to caution and …
The French expression “mener en bateau” translates literally to “to lead by boat”. The expression can also be in the form “mener quelqu’un en bateau”, to lead somebody by boat. Here are the meanings in English: to take somebody for a ride to bamboozle, hoodwink to lead somebody up the garden path (UK) A French …
Jouer l’arlésienne is a French expression meaning to fail to materialize.
