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LES ANIMAUX DANS LES

French 5

TermDefinition
Etre le dindon de la farce Said to indicate the victim, the dupe in a case.
Prendre le taureau par les cornes Used to indicate that it is necessary to start without delay a difficulty or a problem.
Menager la chèvre et le choux Do not take sides.
Revenons à nos moutons Resume the main subject.
Tuer la poule aux oeufs d'or Destroy the source of profit by impatience or greed.
Courir deux/plusieurs lièvres a la fors Have a lot of activities at the same time.
Etre serré(e)s comme des sardines To be too many in an enclosed space.
Avoir une langue de vipère When we talk about someone who keeps saying bad things about others.
Passer du coq a l'âne When in a conversation or speech, we jump from one subject to another without transition, without structure.
Qui veut noyer son chien, l'accuse de la rage When one wants to hurt someone, to hurt him, or to eliminate him, one always finds calumnies, critics.
Avoir des ailes Have wings (to be light)
Se brûler les ailes to do it alone (​​to be independent)
À quatre pattes on all fours (on the knees and hands)
Se mettre à poil Get naked
Voler de ses propres ailes burn your wings (fail in an ambitious enterprise)
Bec de corbin Steel tool, narrow and crooked
Avoir les abeilles to have bees (to be very angry)
Boîte à asticots maggot box (coffin)
Coup de bélier Ram blow
Personne facile à berner Person easy to fool
Claquer du bec Snapping
Être léger comme une plume Be light as a feather
Être muet comme un carpe To be mute like a carp
Avoir des yeux de merlan frit To have eyes like a fried whiting [fish]
Arriver comme un chien dans un jeu de quille To arrive like a dog in a bowling game
Peigner la girafe To comb the giraffe
Tête de mule donkey’s head
une faim de loup a wolf’s hunger
la chair de poule hen’s flesh
il n’y a pas un chat there is not one cat
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