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to sleep in – French expression faire la grasse matinée. faire – to do or to make, la – the, grasse – fat, matinée – morning. faire la grasse matinée means to sleep later than usual, to stay in bed, ‘to sleep in’. * « Ma réunion est dans l’après-midi et j’ai pu faire la grasse matinée. Je me sens super bien. » * “My meeting is in the afternoon and I was able to sleep in this morning. I feel really great.” Next – Vous aimerez aussi MATIN ou MATINÉE – Quiz Expressions with ‘GRAS’ se sentir – to feel – Bitesize     BECOME A MEMBER – FREE TRIAL   . Accroche-minutes . Mots du Jour . Cours avec Anne . Comment or Ask in the box below ↓ . Newsletter . Go to Course – Mardi-Gras .

It’s freezing cold – French Expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Vocabulary Lists  What does the French expression ‘un froid de canard’ mean? What does it sound like? How is it used in a sentence? Listen to Anne. As the weather is getting colder and colder in France, I was thinking of that funny expression: un froid de canard. Literally, a cold of duck, a duck’s cold. un froid de canard means that it’s freezing cold. I think the expression comes from hunting ducks in the fall, when hunters stand in freezing waters for extended periods of time and they get frozen to the bones. un froid de canard, as many weather expressions, uses FAIRE, an irregular verb. * ” Moi, j’reste pas là à m’geler dans la voiture, t’es malade. Il fait un froid de canard.” * “I’m not gonna stay here and freeze, you’re nuts. It’s freezing cold.” Next – Vous aimerez aussi Weather Terms – Bitesize Expressions with FAIRE – Bitesize Quiz – Expressions with FROID – Bitesize – Premium jeter un froid – Mot du Jour   BECOME A MEMBER – FREE TRIAL   . Accroche-minutes . Mots du Jour . Cours avec Anne . Comment or Ask in the box below ↓ . Newsletter . Go to Course – Vocabulary Lists .

chauvinism – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Visit France esprit de clocher – spirit of church tower, steeple. People who have an ‘esprit de clocher‘ stick together, they are biased by their own kind. In everyday French, esprit de clocher means ‘for your team’, for your kind’, ‘chauvinistic’. * « Ben t’as pas trop l’esprit de clocher si tu votes pour l’équipe belge. Je sais qu’ils parlent français, mais quand même 🙂  » * “Well, you’re not too chauvinistic if you vote for the Belgian team. I know they speak French, but still :-)” Next – Vous aimerez aussi Let’s go places – Mini Quiz – Today’s French 13 regions in France vivre – habiter – demeurer – Bitesize   BECOME A MEMBER – FREE TRIAL   . Accroche-minutes . Mots du Jour . Cours avec Anne . Comment or Ask in the box below ↓ . Newsletter . Go to Course – Visit France .

hubbub – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Use French Expressions What does ” rififi ” mean? How do you say ‘ hubbub ’ in French? How is it pronounced? How is it used in a French sentence? Listen to Anne, a French native say it at FrenchHour.com. rififi – sometimes I just love the sound of French words. This one is fun: RIFIFI. I can’t really translate it literally. Rififi is an oldish word that means that there is a lot of noise, confusion and rumble about something. It’ often used in newspapers articles. * « Ce matin, le canard titrait: Rififi autour du Scandale Durand. » * “This morning, the paper’s headline read: hubbub around the Durand scandal.” Next – Vous aimerez aussi dare-dare fissa   BECOME A MEMBER – FREE TRIAL   . Accroche-minutes . Mots du Jour . Cours avec Anne . Comment or Ask in the box below ↓ . Newsletter . Go to Course – Use French Expressions .

at dusk – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Practice French Expressions What does the French expression ‘entre chien et loup’ mean? How is it used in a sentence? Listen to Anne. entre chien et loup – between dog and wolf. entre chien et loup means ‘at dusk’, ‘at twilight’. It describes that hour when it’s difficult to see well, between day and night, when you can’t really see if you’re looking at a dog or at a wolf. entre chien et loup is used a lot when talking about driving. * « Ne conduis pas trop vite ce soir, on est entre chien et loup et on ne voit pas bien. » * “Don’t drive too fast this evening; at dusk, you cannot see well.” Tenses and modes présent : on est entre chien et loup imparfait : on était entre chien et loup futur : on sera entre chien et loup Next – Vous aimerez aussi Negative commands in French – Bitesize Expressions with body parts – Today’s French   BECOME A MEMBER – FREE TRIAL   . Accroche-minutes . Mot du Jour . Cours avec Anne . Comment or Ask in the box below ↓ . Donate . Back to Course – Practice French Expressions .

to cost an arm and a leg – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Practice French Expressions coûter la peau des fesses – to cost the skin of one’s derrière, bottom. In everyday French, coûter la peau des fesses means to be very expensive, unaffordable, ‘to cost an arm and a leg’. * « Je [ne] peux pas aller avec eux au ski cette année. Ça coûte la peau des fesses. » * ‘I can’t go skiing with them this year. It costs an arm and a leg.’ Tenses and modes présent : ça coûte la peau des fesses passé composé : ça a coûté la peau des fesses futur : ça coûtera la peau des fesses Next – Vous aimerez aussi Expressions with body parts – Today’s French   BECOME A MEMBER – FREE TRIAL   . Accroche-minutes . Mot du Jour . Cours avec Anne . Comment or Ask in the box below ↓ . Donate . Back to Course – Practice French Expressions .

un temps de chien – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Weather Vocabulary un temps de chien– a weather of dog, a tense of dog. Poor dog, it seems that ‘a dog’s weather’ is always rainy, cold or windy, or all of the above. un temps de chien means ‘bad weather’, ‘lousy weather’. * « On ne va pas pouvoir aller se balader car il fait un temps de chien. » * “We won’t be able to go for a stroll because the weather is really lousy.“ Say this expression out loud today Did you like it? Please share and link Next – Vous aimerez aussi * Tenses and Modes * AN and IN sounds   BECOME A MEMBER – FREE TRIAL   . Accroche-minutes . Cours avec Anne . Comment or Ask in the box below ↓ . Donate . Back to Lesson – Weather .

jeter un froid – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Weather Vocabulary jeter un froid – to throw a cold. jeter un froid, in everyday French, means ‘to put a damper on’, ‘to cast a chill’, ‘to rain on the parade’. * ” Il s’est garé à la place bébé du supermarché et ça a jeté un froid parmi nous dans la voiture.” * “He parked in the baby place of the supermarket and it cast a chill among us in the car.”  Next – Vous aimerez aussi Quiz – Expressions with CHAUD – Bitesize – Premium Quiz – Expressions with FROID – Bitesize – Premium Un temps de chien – Mot du Jour au beau fixe – Mot du Jour   BECOME A MEMBER – FREE TRIAL   . Accroche-minutes . Cours avec Anne . Comment or Ask in the box below ↓ . Donate . Back to Lesson – Weather .

a date – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Valentine’s Day What does ” un rencard ” mean? How do you say ‘ a date ’ in French? How is it pronounced? How is it used in a French sentence? Listen to Anne, a French native say it at FrenchHour.com un rencard can also be spelled with a t at the end – un rencart. Go figure! un rencard is familiar French, and it means ‘a date’. If you want to be more sophisticated, you’d say ‘un rendez-vous amoureux’. * « Je peux pas venir avec toi faire des courses samedi. J’ai un rencard avec Matthieu. J’ai hâte. » * “I can’t go shopping with you on Saturday. I have a date with Mat. I can’ wait.” Next – Vous aimerez aussi Quiz – Love terms in French   BECOME A MEMBER – FREE TRIAL   . Accroche-minutes . Cours avec Anne . Comment in the box below ↓ . Donate . Back to Course – Valentine’s Day .

to make a mistake – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Reflexive Verbs – List se tromper – oneself to mislead. se tromper means ‘to make a mistake’. * « Oh là là ! Je me suis trompé. Elle m’avait donné rendez-vous dans le VIème, mais comme elle avait écrit son message avec un chiffre romain, j’ai inversé et je suis allée dans le IVème. » * ‘Oh dear ! I made a mistake. She had given me a meeting point in the sixth arrondissement, but because she wrote her message with a Roman numeral, I switched the numbers and I went to the fourth arrondissement.’ Next – Vous aimerez aussi Roman Numerals – Today’s French French Reflexive Verbs List – Bitesize   BECOME A MEMBER – FREE TRIAL   . Today’s French . Mot du Jour . Tutorials . Memberships . Donate . Back to Lesson – Reflexive Verbs .

to go over the top – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Le Festival de Cannes faire son cinéma – to do one’s movies. In everyday French, faire son cinéma means to be dramatic, to be over the top about something, to draw the attention onto oneself, to be a ham, to ham it up. There is another word that means the same thing. It’s cabotiner. I love cabotiner. It feels like it’s coming from old times, and as a result, it’s not very used any more. However, faire son cinéma is. * « Je vais pas lui demander car elle va encore faire son cinéma, comme d’hab. » * “I’m not going to ask her as she’s going to go over the top, as usual.” French verbs – Tenses and modes présent : je fais mon cinéma, nous faisons notre cinéma futur : je en ferai mon cinéma, nous ferons notre cinéma présent du subjonctif : que je fasse mon cinéma , que nous fassions notre cinéma Next – Vous aimerez aussi Expressions with FAIRE Cannes Festival Fun Facts – Today’s French List of Reflexive Verbs – Today’s French French Movie Stars   BECOME A MEMBER – FREE TRIAL   . Today’s French . Mot du Jour . Tutorials . Memberships . Donate . Back to Course – Le Festival de Cannes .

to sneak out – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Le Festival de Cannes faire le mur – to do the wall, faire le mur means to escape, to sneak out of a place. This expression is mostly used with teenagers sneaking out when parents don’t realize it. The expression ‘faire le mur’ is also the name of a yearly movie event that takes place in Cannes during the Cannes Film Festival. It’s called ‘Cannes fait le mur’ – ‘The Cannes Film Festival does the wall’. It’s a spectacular event presenting huge photographs hanging on high building walls throughout town. It’s really impressive. I hope you get to visit Cannes during ‘Cannes fait le mur’. * « La maison qu’ils ont achetée est vraiment faite pour que les enfants puisse faire le mur. » * “The house they bought makes it easy for their children to sneak out.” French verbs – Tenses and Modes présent : je fais le mur imparfait : je faisais le mur present subjunctive: que je fasse le mur Next – Vous aimerez aussi Cannes Festival Fun Facts – Today’s French un navet – French expression un long fleuve tranquille – French expression   BECOME A MEMBER – FREE TRIAL   . Today’s French . Mot du Jour . Tutorials . Memberships . Donate . Back to Course – Le Festival de Cannes .