Idiomatic Expressions
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There are many expressions which are very different in English and in French. They are very visual and often funny! By following the links below, you will find several examples of these idioms. The pictures will help you memorise them!

 

knee-high to a grasshopper   grasshopper-02

a piece of cake  1cake-thumb

raining cats and dogs   catanimal001doganimal017

pins and needles  1fibreaiguille-thumb

as red as a beetroot  beetroot6

a frog in your throat  image004

back teeth   teeth.s

thin as a rake  rake

couch potato  potato12

to cost the earth globemonde

other fish to fry   fish-vt

to promise the earth   globemonde

lost property   briefcase-vtglasses-vtumbrella-vt

strong as a horse    1horse16-med  

April showers 1springrain-med

 

We must not forget  les faux amis, but that’s another story!

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