Comments on: Street French I – Animal Language

By: cockadoodledoo

cockadoodledoo — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:59:18 +0000

Wow! so interesting! very helpful!
defenately five smiles out of 6.5 :):):):)/:):):):):):):

By: Simon Shaw

Simon Shaw — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:48:43 +0000

Can anyone please help with this (General Knowledge) Crossword clue ?

Foolish in France (5) N_A_S

Thank you !!

By: David

David — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:22:46 +0000

Wow Chanda!

What a great article. I remember one of my high school French teacher’s favorite expressions was “oh, la vache!” so you brought me right back to 10th grade

I have an animal question. One of my favorite restaurants in Wachington DC years ago was call “Au pied de cochon”, in tribute to the famous bistro in Paris of the same name…and I always wondered if there was something to that idiom that went beyond the obvious reference to eating pigs’ feet in the bistro. It was the “Au” that I found particularly curious…was it supposed to be a double meaning – “At the foot of the pig” and/or “at the place you eat pigs’ feet”?

By: Chanda

Chanda — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:07:19 +0000

I’m glad you think the article would be helpful, Jim. I’m with you on the ‘vachement’ thing…my friends say it all the time! Like “C’est vachement bien!” when talking about something that is really good (a movie, a book, anything).

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:16:30 +0000

One I love is:
Vendre la peau de l’ours avant de l’avoir tué. (Sell the skin of a bear before having killed it). This is used just like Count chickens before they hatch in English. Sometimes said without the last half (also as we do in English), so “Ne vends pas la peau de l’ours!”