French Idioms
Occupe-toi de tes oignons!
Mind your own onion!
Mind your own business!
Metro-boulot-dodo / Subway-work-sleep
Daily life
This person from Quebec is famous for her song featured in the Titanic movie.
Celine Dion
This mollusk is eaten within its shell with a mixture of garlic, butter, and parsley
Escargots / Snails
This Holiday is known as Noel in France.
Christmas
Les carottes sont cuites!
The carrots are cooked!
It's over!
Hurluberlu - a type of person
Crazy person
This person is known for her namesake brand, most famous for their perfume
Coco Chanel
Similar to a pancake, this food is paper-thin and can be eaten savory or sweet.
Crepes
This holiday, celebrated in an old French colony, is also known as Fat Tuesday.
Mardi Gras
Comme les doigts dans le nez.
Like fingers in the nose.
Super easy.
Frappadingue - an adjective
Crazy
This person is a famous painter known for his water lillies.
Claude Monet
This dessert is topped with a hard caramelized sugar that you crack with a spoon.
Creme Brulee
This holiday celebrates the storming of the namesake prison.
Bastille Day
Filer à l'anglaise.
Take an english leave.
To sneak out.
Yaourter.
To yogurt.
Speaking or singing in a language you don't know.
This person is known for her rumored last words to her executioner being, "Pardonnez-moi, monsieur."
Marie Antoinette
This stew is made of vegetables such as zucchini, squash, an tomatoes.
Ratatouille
This holiday contains a feast and celebration of the Catholic figures.
All Saints Day / La Toussaint
Avoir le coup de foudre.
To get struck by lightning.
To fall in love.
Œil-de-bœuf.
Eye of beef/Bull's eye
Circular Window
This persons coronation took place in the Notre-Dame cathedral and died at 51 in Saint Helena.
Napoleon Bonaparte
This pastry is made of layers of dough and butter
Croissant
This holiday is known as Poisson d'Avril, or the Fish of April
April Fools