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French Idioms and Proverbs
de V. Payen-Payne
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Beauté
La beauté ne se mange pas en salade = Beauty does not fill the larder; Prettiness makes no pottage.
Bec
Il m’a tenu le bec dans l’eau = He kept me in suspense.
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C’est un homme qui ne se laisse pas passer la plume par le bec = He is a man not easily taken in.
[Clerks bet a newcomer that he cannot write with a pen in his mouth. On his endeavouring to do so, they pull the pen sharply through his lips, thus inking his face. “Qu’on me fasse passer la plume par le bec.” Molière, Les Femmes Savantes, iii. 6.]
C’est un blanc bec = He is a beardless boy, greenhorn.
“Souffrez que je lui montre son bec jaune” = Allow me to show him he is a silly goose.
[Molière, Le Malade Imaginaire, iii. 17. Bec jaune or b. . . Read More
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