1. Expressions idiomatiques
Idiomatique Expressions

2. Qu’est-ce que c’est un expression idiomatique?
An idiomatic expression is an expression or saying that makes no sense when taken literally or translated word for word.

3. Idiomatic expressions
An example would be “it’s raining cats and dogs” in English.
En français on dit
“il pleut des cordes.”
(It’s raining ropes.”)
Take a minute to think of other idiomatic expressions we use in English.

4. Common idioms in English
To have a chip on your shoulder
Once in a blue moon
Get off your high horse
To cost an arm and a leg
To beat a dead horse
What are some common idioms using food?

5. What are some common idioms using food in English?
It’s a piece of cake
In a pickle
The cherry on top
Easy as pie
To cry over spilt milk
Cool as a cucumber

6. Common food idioms Slow as molasses
A bad apple / a bad egg / a bad seed
The big cheese
To bite off more than you can chew
To butter someone up
Doesn’t cut the mustard
To compare apples and oranges
Not my cup of tea

7. Raconter des salades
= dire des bêtises

8. To tell a tale / fib / spin a yarn

9. Avoir la frite
= être en pleine forme, avoir plein d’enérgie

10. To be in top form / to be pumped
 turnt up

11. Avoir le melon
= avoir la grosse tête

12. To get a big head

13. Mettre les pieds dans le plat
= être brutalement indiscret

14. To put your foot in your mouth

15. En faire un fromage
= faire toute une histoire de rien

16. To make a big deal out of nothing *to make a mountain out of a molehill

17. C’est la fin des haricots
= tout est perdu

18. all is lost, it’s the end of the world

19. les carottes sont cuites
= c’est fini

20. Game over, nothing can be done