http://chocolateandzucchini.com/arch...nch_idioms.php
I've been meaning to post this link to the Chocolate & Zucchini website. For those of us interested in the French language, it's been fun to read Clotilde's installments. Enjoy, EJ

To which could be added:

manger son blé en herbe

avoir les portuguaises ensablées

And also :

sucrer les fraises
avoir le vin mauvais
traîner une casserole
ne pas avoir un radis
avoir de l'oseille (ou du bl&eacute
en faire tout un fromage
une grosse légume
.........etc.....etc

faire son beurre

and also:

tomber dans les pommes
faire tant de bruit pour une omelette
avoir de la friture dans le téléphone
aller se faire cuire un oeuf

Thanks for the link, EJ.
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Hey folks,

Mind translating the idioms?

I'll echo Ira and ask for the meanings/translations of these, as well. EJ

A few more (with translations!):

ca mettra du beurre dans les epinards (lit. that will put butter on the spinach = that will bring in some extra money)

c'est chou vert ou vert chou / c'est jus vert ou verjus (lit. it's cabbage green or green cabbage/ it's green juice or verjus = it's six of one and half a dozen of the other)

raconter des salades (lit. to tell salads = to tell tall stories)

Avoir de l'oseille (sorrel) or du blé (wheat) or des radis (radish) : to have money

avoir le vin mauvais : to be quarrelsome in one's cup - the opposite is avoir le vin gai : to be merry

sucrer les fraises (strawberries) : to tremble, to be senile

une grosse légume (big vegetable) : a top brass

en faire tout un fromage: to make a big fuss out of nothing

traîner une casserole (to drag a pan) : to be involved in a compromising business

la vie est dure sans confiture

Something my French teacher always said, although it's also a movie (2005).

These are great! Many thanks, EJ

donner de la confiture aux cochons = pearls before swine

Il y avait à boire et à manger = there was an overload of details, not necessarily correct.

tomber dans les pommes (fall into the apples): to swoon
faire tant de bruit pour une omelette (make so much noise for an omelet): much ado about nothing
avoir de la friture dans le téléphone (to hear frying in the phone): static on the line
aller se faire cuire un oeuf (to go and have an egg boiled): to leave someone in peace

there is also:

plein comme un oeuf (as full as an egg): filled to capacity
écraser le champignon (squeeze the mushroom): drive at full speed
avoir du pain sur la plache (having bread on the board): having lots of work to do
tirer une carotte à quelqu'un (draw a carrot from someone): take something away by cheating.

etc. etc.

Phil, is that plache or planche?

StCirq:

Planche, of course. Darn typo!

Thought so, but you can never be sure there isn't a word out there you never heard of, y'know?

Thanks!

Quite so, have you ever heard the verb glapir? I haven't.

Bonus:
Être entre deux vins (to between two wines): to be slightly drunk.

Cheers.

<i>manger son bl&eacute; en herbe</i> - to spend one's money before on gets it (or too soon, before it attains its full value).

<i>il a les portuguaises ensabl&eacute;es</i> - he's a real cloth-ears (Brit.)

<i>faire son beurre</i> - to make a packet or one's pile.