"Tender like dew" , "fagoté like the ace of spades" , "beautiful like a truck" ... These are strange, but charming, expressions. A little cheesy in the eyes of some, tasty for others. Never mind! These formulas prove the richness of the French language and the imagination of its speakers.
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Thus, one "drinks like a sponge" (expression which dates from the 18th century) and one is "kind as a prison door" . This one is "shy like a bride" when the other is "clean like a penny".
Will you recognize these bizarre formulas that populate our conversations? Le Figaro offers you, thanks to the book “Con comme la lune and 99 other (really) unexpected comparisons (First) by Catherine Guennec and Jean-Jacques Delattre, to find out.
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