Johan: Great. So, a while ago, we offered you a little game in which we used my book, 301 expressions to speak like the French random expressions . And the idea was to take a page and a random expression and the second person had to explain the meaning of the expression and give an example. In fact, we have fun with it because there are some French expressions that are not used a lot by native speakers, so we have fun testing each other. Are you going to start?
Olivier: You started last time. So, it’s my turn to make you… to ask you the definition of the expression at random. I have to do it, I have the knife to my throat. So, to have a knife to your throat.
Johan: Having a knife at your throat or having the knife at your throat, well that actually means being under pressure. You have to do something, but you feel that you are under pressure, you are a little bit afraid, you have a certain anxiety, because there is a risk in fact.
I think there is this risk aspect
Johan: We are under threat from something or someone. Yes, the word “threat” is perhaps more relevant here, to be under threat from someone, to have a certain pressure.
For example, you could say, “I don’t want to work on Sundays, but my boss put a knife to my throat.” So, obviously, we’re not being literal. The boss didn’t come with a knife and put it to my iran whatsapp number data throat. The throat is that part; the knife is the object you use to cut. The boss didn’t come with a knife to my throat in a way… literally, but we understood that we had no choice, we understood that if we refused to work on Sundays, well, we were going to lose our jobs.
Johan: Not infallible. Nobody is infallible, that’s true. So the expression, which is nice, I think you know, to make a hit.
Olivier: I know her. I’m lucky, indeed. So, making a splash… So, tobacco, of course, everyone knows. It’s what you smoke, eh. It’s strongly discouraged.
Olivier: For example, the last film that came out in theaters is a hit. There are a lot of people, it’s a great success. People are queuing up to go see
Johan: It’s heavy. Okay. So, it’s heavy, it bailochan behera president means it’s something amazing, it’s something that surprises us, or it can be… there are different meanings in “it’s heavy”, but we can also use it to say that it’s something big, something very important. I think we can explain it like that.
Olivier: Yes, it’s really in the imposing size of things and it’s
something that we’re going to take seriously in the end
Johan: Yeah, there’s this thing about taking it seriously. So, for example, you could say: “I saw the lineup for the next festival. It’s great.” That means you have to take it seriously. There are really well-known artists,
une with the times. That one isn’t super easy. Being in tune with the times.
Olivier: I accept the challenge. Being in a complete list of unit phone numbers tune with the times simply means being fashionable, being trendy. We imagine, of course, the air circulates and we always have it around us and… I don’t know if it changes over time, but there is this idea of being trendy, of being fashionable. If we imagine a music that we will hear all the time, all the time, it circulates like the air and, therefore, there is really this notion of trend, of being fashionable.