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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 :)

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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 :)

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

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

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

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...

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