Today we’ll discover a fun French idiom: Avoir un chat dans la gorge, which means to be hoarse. The literal translation of this idiom is “to have a cat in the throat” and an English equivalent is “to have a frog in your throat”.
👉 See related lesson: Chiant (annoying, pain in the neck) » Today we’ll look at an expression that you’d commonly hear in spoken French but rarely see in the textbooks: En avoir ras le bol, meaning “to be really fed up”. Keep reading and we’ll explain the literal translation. en avoir ras le bol to …
French is full of lots of fun and colorful expressions. Today we’ll look at one of my all time favorites: Pisser dans un violon (literal translation: “to piss in a violin”). Meanings of this expression mean “to waste your breath” and “to talk to a wall”.
Today we’ll focus on a simple yet extremely useful French expression: “avoir du mal à”, which means to have difficulty/trouble or to find it hard to do something.
Today we’ll have a close look at tout le monde in French, which means “everybody” or “everyone”.
