Bring me something to drink or I kill the dog!
About a remark in a conversation, to be completely irrelevant (literally: "to arrive like a hair in the soup")
He didn't beat about the bush (literally: "to attack with a marble in head")
To escape a danger (literally: "to have one's feathers hot")
To have a lot in common with someone (literally: "to have hooked atoms with someone")
To be caught between two stools (literally: "to have one's ass between two chairs")
To be overfed (literally: "to have one's back teeth swimming")
To be scared (literally: "to have the tokens")
To be very full of oneself (literally: "to have one's ankles swell")
To be haunted by a scandal (literally: "to have saucepans hung on the ass")
To do something with very few tools (literally: "with my dick and my knife")
To be lucky (literally: "to have the ass full of noodles")
To always be one step behind (literally: "to be three metros late")
To have a frog in one's throat (literally: "to have a cat in one's throat")
To be tied down (literally: "to have a thread at the leg")
To be lazy (literally: "to have a hair in the hand")
To have a bad scare (literally: "to have a blue fear")
A fat lot of good that does me! (literally: "It makes me a nice leg")
It has nothing to write home about (literally: "It doesn't break bricks")
It has nothing to write home about (literally: "It doesn't break three legs to a duck")
There'll be one hell of a row (literally: "It will shit bubbles")
It's for yours truly (literally: "It will be for my apple")
Ironical: That's priceless (literally: "It is worth its weight in peanuts")
It's in the bag (literally: "It's in the pocket")
That's great (literally: "It is the foot")
That's another story (literally: "It's another pair of sleeves")
Once bitten, twice shy (literally: "A warmed cat fears cold water")
To bum around (literally: "to wedge the bubble")
Get one someone's nerves (literally: "to run on someone's bean")
To discover a secret (literally: "to discover the roses' pot")
Note: This expression does not spell "découvrir le poteau rose" (i.e., "to discover the pink pole").
German-like expression for "solve your problem yourself" (literally: "get out of the shit yourself")
To say contradictory things (literally: "to say everything and its contrary")
To make life difficult to someone (literally: "to give threads to twist")
To give up a riddle (literally: "to give one's tongue to the cat")
Its child play (literally: "the childhood of art")
To be through the mill (literally: "to see some of all colors")
To drive the point home (literally: "to drive the nail in")
To have all the initial problems to put up with (literally: "to wipe the plasters")
To be in a bad mood (literally: "to be of bad hair")
To be dressed any old how (literally: "to be dressed like the ace of spades")
To be dressed any old how (literally: "to be dressed like six-four-two")
His eyes nearly popped out of his head (literally: "he dribbled hat circles")
To state the obvious (literally: "To break down open doors")
To be at a complete loss (literally: "To be like a chicken who has found a knife")
To react slowly to something (literally: "To have a slow trigger")
To solve two problems with one solution (literally: "To do with one stone two hits")
Hypocrite (literally: "fake ass")
Hypocrite (literally: "fake token")
To smoke like a chimney (literally: "to smoke like a fireman")
About a person: small (literally: "tall as three apples")
It is nothing to make a fuss about (literally: "It's no reason for whipping a cat")
Things aren't running too smoothly (literally: "there is water in the gaz")
There is a problem here (literally: "there is a ball (i.e., testicule) in the soup")
To put a damper on things (literally: "to throw a cold)
I will be leaving soon (literally: "I will not make long fire here")
Now we are finally getting to the point (literally: "I see you coming with your big clogs")
Expression of surprise (literally: "the cow!)
To be like a spare part (literally: "the fifth wheel of the coach)
Don't react to a provocation (literally: "to let the merino piss")
To jilt somebody (literally: "to drop somebody like an old sock")
I am stunned (literally: "my arms are falling")
To be a little dumb (literally: "not to have invented gunpowder")
Not to know what to do (literally: "not to know on which foot to dance")
There is no half-measures with him/her (literally: "not to go there with the back of the spoon")
To evade an issue (literally: "to drown the fish")
We are not out of the woods yet (literally: "We are not out of the inn yet")
To blather (literally: "To speak wrongly and crosswise")
Great (literally: "not bitten by cockchafers")
To do something useless (literally: "to comb the giraffe")
Coward (literally: "wet chicken")
To have an argument with someone (literally: "To take someone between four eyes")
Never (literally: "when chickens will have teeth")
To champ at the bit (literally: "to gnaw one's break")
To jump from one subject to another (literally: "to jump from the rooster to the donkey")
To be extremely bored (literally: "to make oneself shit like a dead rat")
To have a tremendous time (literally: "to give oneself heart joy")
To be thick as thieves (literally: "to get along like thieves in a fair")
This is said about a clothing item that looks cumpeled (literally: "to come from a cow's mouth")
Be dead (literally: "to suck the dandelions by the root")
To keep an eye on (literally: "to keep an eye on like milk on a fire")
To have money problems (literally: "to pull the devil's tail")
Far-fetched (literally: "pulled by the hair")
To build castles in the air (literally: "to draw plans on the comet")
About a joke: not to trigger any reaction by the audience (literally: "to fall flat")
Never (literally: "each 36th day of the month")
Of course! (literally: "a little bit, my nephew!")
To count one's chickens before they are hatched (literally: "to sell the bear's skin before killing it")
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Banzai Harakiri
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