30 Expressions From Another Time That Even Our Grandmothers No Longer Use.
I don't know about you, but I spent all my vacations with my grandparents.
Whether in the countryside or by the sea, I always felt like I was in another country!
Why ? Because everything was different even the language!
Do you remember some of your grandmother's favorite expressions?
Come on, let's take a little tour of the past with these 30 expressions that no one (or almost) uses anymore. Look :
1. You are bundled up like an ace of spades.
2. You risk breaking your sweet tooth!
3. Do not ride the bourrichon!
4. You are not in sugar!
5. Are we not going to wait until Saint Glin-Glin anyway?
6. There is no fire at the lake!
7. It's kif-kif bourricot!
8. I'll go do the errands.
9. It will not fall any lower!
10. There are no small savings.
11. We didn't leave the inn.
12. Don't make a big deal out of it!
13. Look at an advertising page.
14. Don't put the cart before the horse.
15. He took the runaway powder.
16. He is buttery like a Petit Lu!
17. She saw the wolf!
18. Make a head six feet long.
19. We are not at parts.
20. It doesn't make a fold.
21. You spin the wrong cotton.
22. Burn the candle at both ends.
23. I paid it ruby on the nail.
24. In the good franquette.
25. Let's not speak much, but speak well.
26. Don't push Granny in the nettles.
27. It doesn't add up to one or two.
28. Fart higher than her ass.
29. No need to look for noon to 2 p.m.
30. It has a descent that I would not like to cycle up.
Extra expressions
After this article was uploaded, many of our readers have given us expressions that their grandparents used.
Thanks to them for sharing them! Here are a few :
- Holy Patience, pray for us!
- Saint Rita, patron saint of desperate causes, pray for them.
- Name of a wooden pipe.
- It won't go any higher.
- He's the highest of the beast.
- You make points of Jesus who runs after Mary.
- I'll eat it on a lousy head.
- I'll get the worms out of your nose.
- We will never make a donkey a racehorse.
- We're not going to wiggle our ass to shit straight.
- It is the end of beans.
- Make a bench on the floor.
- Saperlipopette.
- We must not put the cart before the horse.
- Cucul la praline.
- Be dressed like the ace of spades.
- I don't give a damn about it.
- It's as old as Methuselah!
- Good soup is made in old pots.
- To be more royalist than the king.
- You might as well piss in a violin.
- Breaking down open doors.
- Eat like four.
- Have eyes bigger than your stomach.
- Have fried whiting eyes.
- Be drawn to the nines.
- Walking on eggshells.
- Bayer with crows.
- Pretty as a heart.
- Stupid as his feet.
- Like a letter in the mail.
- You have straw in your ass and fire in it.
- Money sore is not fatal.
- This knife cuts like my grandmother's knees.
- You have sausage skins in front of your eyes.
- You wouldn't find a donkey in a hallway.
- Clean as a new penny.
- Make fried whiting eyes.
- Have a nose to prick wafers.
- It's little Jesus in velvet pants.
- A long time ago.
- Another one the Prussians won't have.
- Packed, it's weighed.
- Have the curtains sticking to the windows.
- There is nothing to make a fuss about it.
- Put all one's eggs in one basket.
- Have both feet in the same shoe.
- Go around in circles like a sick pig.
- It's nothing to write home about.
Your turn...
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