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French have many food-related idioms: my favourite is "Casser du sucre sur le dos de quelq'un", which translated should sound like "To crash sugar on someone's back", and it means you are saying malicious and mean stuff about someone :)

SaraMaternini at 2:04AM on 06/16/09

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Food-Related Idioms from 'I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears'

French have many food-related idioms: my favourite is "Casser du sucre sur le dos de quelq'un", which translated should sound like "To crash sugar on someone's back", and it means you are saying malicious and mean stuff about someone :)

SaraMaternini at 2:04AM on 06/16/09

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Scraping tapioca. Trobriand Islander for, er, ah, enjoying oneself.

MarvinDog at 5:10PM on 06/22/09

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Fry the squid. A cantonese idiom for getting fired.

Feefiefoefum at 10:24AM on 06/22/09

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How about the classic: "In vino veritas"?

buffy at 10:41PM on 06/21/09

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If you like these, check out Chocolate and Zucchini. Clotilde has been writing a bunch of French edible idioms. Here is the archive. I love some of the things that would never make it through a translation...

Kerry Saretsky at 6:58PM on 06/18/09

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@Sara: But sugar is sweet and DELICIOUS!...:) Ahhwell.

Robyn Lee at 12:38PM on 06/16/09

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