#1 Close your mouth, your nose is going to fall in!
Meaning: shut your mouth, your nose is going to fall in (said of someone who looks dumbfounded)
When to use this expression: say this to your best friend when you tell him that you managed to fill up the gas tank
#2 Who goes to the fair loses his spot
Meaning: who goes to the fair loses his spot / variation of "who goes hunting loses his spot" When to use this expression: say this to the guy who brought a super hot girl to the club but unfortunately left her with you for 5 minutes, you rascal!
#3 A dog is not a cat
Meaning: a dog does not make a cat (like father, like son)
When to use this expression: say to your best friend when she admits that her 6-month-old baby, well, he's actually ugly (and will remain so)
#4 All' est bellote / Il est bellot
Meaning: she is very beautiful / he is very handsome
When to use this expression: say to Marguerite, a 19th-century farmer in the deep countryside, at the village bar, on a national holiday evening
#5 Armonte eut’marone, tin pintalon i quié !
Meaning: pull up your panties, your pants are falling / which basically means "stop telling us nonse.Mischiefs"
When to use this expression: say to your boss when he tells you that you will now work on Saturdays
#6 Species of fool
Meaning: kind of idiot
When to use this expression: say to all people who think that the North is a crappy region #proudasapeacock
#7 What are you up to, clown ?
Meaning: what are you doing?
When to use this expression: say to your friend completely wasted coming out of the Butcher's on Solfé street trying to impress the bouncer.If you didn't manage to pick up a girl,
#8 Get yourself a chair and sit down!
Meaning: take a seat and sit down
When to use this expression: jokingly say this to your guy just before the fateful "I'm pregnant" to make him freak out for no reason
#9 Kind only has one eye, I have two!
Meaning: kind only has one eye, I have two / variation of "too good, too stupid"
When to use this expression: say this to your friend who just got dumped by her guy because she saw no problem with her guy going to Ibiza with his buddies for a spring break
Meaning: He's not one to suck on ice cubes / in other words, "he looks drunk"
When to use this expression: used to describe your college professor who shows up to every class stumbling (but he's still nice).
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