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In this episode, discover some popular French expressions with animal names! You’ll impress if you can fit these in a French conversation with native speakers 😉 How many of the following French expressions with animals did you know? Can you share some expressions with animals existing in your own language? Do you know their equivalent in French?
Vocabulary and Spelling of the French Words mentioned in this episode
Faire l’autruche = to bury your head in the sand
Avoir le cafard
Un cafard = a cockroach
Faire un froid de canard
Appeler un chat un chat
Avoir un chat dans la gorge = to have a frog in the throat
Avoir une fièvre de cheval
Un remède de cheval
Devenir chèvre
Etre malade comme un chien
Un temps de chien
Avoir une mémoire d’éléphant
Il y a pas de lézard
Tourner comme un lion en cage : marcher de long en large, s’impatienter
Etre lent comme une limace
Avoir une faim de loup = to be starving, ravenous
Etre connu comme le loup blanc
Faire mouche = to hit the bull’s eye, to shoot right in the middle, to reach the target
Prendre la mouche = to be offended ; susceptible
LINKS and RESOURCES
Origin of expressions: http://www.linternaute.com/expression/
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