Meaning of an Idiom My Mouth Has Run Away With Me Again
French idioms
A collection of idiomatic expressions in French with English language equivalents and translations.
| Idioms | English language versions |
|---|---|
| faire la tête | to sulk ("to do the head") |
| garder la tête froide | to keep one's cool ("to keep the head absurd") |
| se creuser la tête / les méninges | to think really hard / to try to remember something ("to dig into your head / encephalon") |
| se casser la tête | to become to a lot of trouble; to worry about sb/sth ("to break your caput") |
| coûter les yeux de la tête | to cost an arm and a leg ("to cost the eyes from the caput") |
| se mettre le doigt dans l'œil | to put your foot in it - to make a fault ("to put your finger in your centre") |
| être bouche bée | to be open-mouthed; gapping; flabbergasted ("to be mouth open") |
| être sans voix | to be speechless ("to be without voice") |
| donner sa langue au conversation | to give up ("to requite 1'south tongue to the cat") |
| avoir (un mot) sur le bout de la langue | to have (a word) on the tip of your tongue |
| avoir les paring longues | to be ambitious; to have lofty goals ("to accept long teeth") |
| avoir un poil dans la primary | to be lazy; to avert work ("to have a hair in the hand") |
| manger sur le pouce | to grab a seize with teeth to consume; to eat on the run ("to eat on the thumb") |
| ne rien faire de ses dix doigts | to exist lazy ("to do zippo with one's ten fingers") |
| prendre ses jambes à son cou | to take to one's heels; to run away ("to take one's legs to i's cervix) |
| casser les pieds à quelqu'un | to get on someone'due south nerves ("to break someone's feet) |
| enlever une épine du pied à quelqu'un | to help / become someone out of a fix ("to remove a thorn from someone'south foot) |
| couper la poire en deux | to meet someone halfway ("to cut the pear in two") |
| pédaler dans la semoule | to become round in circles / to get nowhere fast ("to pedal in the semolina") |
| tomber dans les pommes | to faint / pass out ("to autumn in the apples") |
| tondre des œufs | to be cheap / a skinflint ("to mow/crop/shear the eggs") |
| sucrer les fraises | to be a bit doddery ("to sugar the strawberries") |
| c'est la goutte d'eau qui fait déborder le vase | the straw that bankrupt the camel's back ("information technology's the drop of water that made the vase overflow") |
| casser du sucre sur le dos de quelqu'united nations | to gossip about someone behind their dorsum ("to interruption some saccharide on someone'due south back") |
| appuyer sur le champignon | to drive very fast; to accelerate; to flooring information technology; to put the pedal to the metallic ("to printing on the mushroom") |
| étre dans le pétrin | to be in a mess / a jam; in serious trouble ("to be in the kneading-trough") |
| avoir la tête dans le guidon | to be overwhelmed; to exist striving; to be working difficult ("to accept 1'south head in the handlebars") |
| mettre son grain de sel | to butt in; to put one'southward oar in; to make one's point ("to put i's grain of salt") |
| se regarder le nombril | to be egoistic; pretentious; selfish; to think the world/universe revolves around oneself ("to gaze at your navel") |
| être soupe au lait | to be quick-tempered ("to be milky soup") |
| prendre la mouche | to become off in a huff ("to take the fly") |
| faire mouche | to score a bull's-eye ("to do a fly/button") |
| rouler à tombeau ouvert | to go at breakneck speed ("to roll with the tomb open") |
| sentir le sapin | to have i foot in the grave; accept a graveyard cough; exist not long for this world ("to smell of fir trees") - fir is used for coffins |
| (faire quelque chose avec) les doigts dans le nez | every bit easy equally falling off a log ("[as easy as putting] one'southward fingers in one's nose") |
| tomber de sommeil | to fall asleep; to exist asleep on one's anxiety; to be very sleepy |
| coûter united nations œil / united nations bras | to cost an arm and a leg ("to toll un eye / an arm") |
| (c'est) une autre paire de manches | (it'south) another kettle of fish, (it'southward) a whole different story ("another pair of arms") |
| avoir les pieds et les poings liés | to have ane's easily tied ("to have one's feet and fists tied") |
| avoir le cul entre deux chaises | to sit on the contend ("to have one'southward arse betwixt two chairs") |
| avoir d'autres chats à fouetter | to have other fish to fry ("to have other cats to whip") |
| Être comme un poisson dans l'eau | to be like a pig in clover/to take to something similar a duck to water ("to be like a fish in the water") |
| taper dans le mille | to hitting the balderdash's eye/hit the nail on the caput ("to hit ane,000") |
| mettre du beurre dans les épinards | to give one a scrap more than money (perchance 'to put jam on the staff of life'/'to put breadstuff on the table'..?) ("to put butter on the spinach") |
| être sur la paille | to exist skint ("to be on the harbinger") |
Idioms were provided by Jan Underwood, Ludovic Martin and Lynette Raven. Corrections by Sylvain Bouchard
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