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List of idioms in the [[French language]]:

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==A==
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|Avaler des couleuvres
|Put up with humilation.
|To Swallow grass snakes
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|Avoir bon dos
|To accept criticism or humor well
|To have a good back
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|Avoir la main au coeur
|To be generous
|To have the hand at the heart
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|Avoir autres chats/cheins à fouetter
|To have other/better things to do
|To have other cats/dogs to whip
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==B==
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==C==
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|Bête noire
|Pet Peeve
|Black beast
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|Comme un elephant dans un magasin de porcelain
|Like a bull in a china shop
|Like an elephant in a china shop
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|Conduire comme un pied
|To drive horribly
|To drive like a foot
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|Coûter les yeux de la tête
|To be very expensive
|To cost the eyes of the head
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|Esprit de l’escalier
|Staircase wit
|Spirit of the stairway
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==F==
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|Faire la sourde oreille
|To turn a deaf ear; to ignore
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|Faire une carte de France
|Have a wet dream.
|To make a map of France
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|Manger sur le pouce
|To eat very hastily.
|Eat on the Thumb.
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|Ce ne sont pas vos oignons
|It is none of your business
|Those are not your onions
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|[Avoir] un oeil au beurre noir
|[To have] a black eye
|[To have] an eye in black butter
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==P==
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|Poser un lapin à quelqu'un
|To set someone up, not show up
|Put a rabbit to someone
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|(Coûter) la peau du cul
|(To cost) arms and legs
|(To cost) the skin of the bottom
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|Pillier de bar
|Bar fly
|Bar pillar
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|Prendre ses jambes à son cou
|To run away quickly; to escape
|To take one's legs to one's neck
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|(Faire une) queue de poisson (à quelqu'un)
|To cut in front of someone (in driving).
|Do a fish tail to someone
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|Tirer le diable par la queue
|To be too poor to do anything.
|Pull the devil by the tail
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|Tomber dans les pommes
|To faint. Probably originated from the onomatopoeic homophone "pom".
|To fall in the apples
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== See also ==

*[[Idiom]]
*[[Idiom dictionary]]
*[[wiktionary:Category:Idioms|Wiktionary ''Idioms'' category]]
*[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_idiotismes_en_fran%C3%A7ais List of idioms in the French language (explication in French)]

[[fr:Liste des idiotismes en français]]

==External links==
[[Category:French language]]
[[Category:French phrases]]