French teacher team Karen and Katie share a few of their favourite expressions, to add a little colour to your spoken French:
“Tomber dans les pommes”
Literal translation: To fall in the apples
Meaning: To faint
“En faire tout un fromage”
Literal translation: Make a whole cheese out of it
Meaning: To make a big deal of something trivial
“Faire la grasse matinée”
Literal translation: Do the fatty morning
Meaning: To have a lie-in
“Entre chien et loup”
Literal translation: Between dog and wolf
Meaning: At dusk or twilight
“C’est la fin des haricots!”
Literal translation: it’s the end of the beans!
Meaning: it’s the end of the world!