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1. Chocolate & Zucchini: Idiom Recipes

   • This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ... This week's expression is, "Être serrés comme des sardines. ...
   • chocolateandzucchini.com/entriesbytopic.php?tag=Idiom
   • Related Terms idiom, idiomatic expressions, food, list of idioms

2. Boire du petit-lait | Chocolate & Zucchini

   • This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ... According to these sources, the expression started out in the 16th century as ...
   • chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/.../boire_du_petitlait.php
   • Related Terms whey, idiom, October 24, petit-lait

3. Avoir la pêche | Chocolate & Zucchini

   • This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ... This expression appeared in the sixties: it may have evolved from the ...
   • chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2009/03/avoir_la_peche.php
   • Related Terms pêche, peach, expression, idiom

4. Mettre la main à la pâte | Chocolate & Zucchini

   • This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ... I have never heard it used in the sense of the French expression. ...
   • chocolateandzucchini.com/.../01/mettre_la_main_a_la_pate.php
   • Related Terms idiom, main à la pâte, food, expression

5. Être serrés comme des sardines | Chocolate & Zucchini

   • This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ... This expression appeared in the middle of the nineteenth century, and it refers ...
   • chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2010/05/...
   • Related Terms sardines, serrés, canned sardines, colloquial expression

6. Mettre son grain de sel | Chocolate & Zucchini

   • This expression entered French dictionaries fairly recently, in the first half ... So perhaps this is an older expression then realized, and that's why the French ...
   • chocolateandzucchini.com/.../06/mettre_son_grain_de_sel.php
   • Related Terms grain of salt, idiom, grain de sel, the American

7. Ce n'est pas de la tarte | Chocolate & Zucchini

   • This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ... Because it is a colloquial expression that is mostly spoken, it is usually ...
   • chocolateandzucchini.com/.../06/ce_nest_pas_de_la_tarte.php
   • Related Terms idiom, tarte, pie, cake

8. French Idioms | Chocolate & Zucchini

   • This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ... This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ...
   • chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/cat_french_idioms.php
   • Related Terms Idiom, idiomatic expressions, food, list of idioms

9. Mi-figue mi-raisin | Chocolate & Zucchini

   • This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ... An interesting expression suggesting that figs are not highly valued in France, ...
   • chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/.../mifigue_miraisin.php
   • Related Terms idiom, figue, raisin, expression

10. En faire tout un flan | Chocolate & Zucchini

    • This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ... It is comparable to the English expressions, "making a mountain out of a ...
    • chocolateandzucchini.com/.../04/en_faire_tout_un_flan.php
    • Related Terms flan, idiom, expression, molehill

11. Manger dans la main de quelqu'un | Chocolate & Zucchini

    • This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ... The exact same expression exist in Portuguese, with the same negative ...
    • chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2009/03/...
    • Related Terms idiom, expression, Chocolate, negative connotation

12. Oh La Vache! - Ms. Glaze's Pommes d'Amour

    • My all-time favorite French expression is "Oh la vache!" which strictly translated means "Oh the cow!" I believe the closest English euphemism would ...
    • msglaze.typepad.com/paris/2007/07/oh-la-vache.html
    • Related Terms yogurt, cows, Oh la vache, Glaze

13. Tomber dans les pommes | Chocolate & Zucchini

    • This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ... The expression is mainly associated with 19th-century upper class ladies, who ...
    • chocolateandzucchini.com/.../04/tomber_dans_les_pommes.php
    • Related Terms apples, Tomber dans les pommes, fille, expression

14. Avoir du pain sur la planche | Chocolate & Zucchini

    • This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ... That's funny, that expression can be translated litteraly into the ...
    • chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2008/11/...
    • Related Terms bread, expression, idiom, planche

15. Le ver est dans le fruit | Chocolate & Zucchini

    • This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. ... One might think this expression simply based on good old-fashioned bon sens ...
    • chocolateandzucchini.com/.../06/le_ver_est_dans_le_fruit.php
    • Related Terms fruit, worm, idioms, Chocolate