21 French Expressions That Will Make You Laugh

French expressions for love

1. French people don’t “fall madly in love,” they “have a thunderbolt”: Avoir un coup de foudre.

2. French people don’t “have sex,” they “send each other in the air”: S’envoyer en l’air.

French expressions for stress, anger, and sadness

3. French people don’t “feel depressed,” they “have the cockroach”: Avoir le cafard.

4. French people don’t say “it drives me crazy,” they say “It’s taking my head”: Ca me prend la tête.

5. French people don’t “have a lot on their plate,” they “have bread on the board”: Avoir du pain sur la planche.

6. French people don’t “spaced out,” they are “in the West”: Etre à l’Ouest.

7. French people aren’t “fed up with something,” they “have a bowl full of it”: En avoir ras le bol.

8. French people are not “afraid of something,” they “have a blue fear” of it: Avoir une peur bleue.

9. French people don’t “feel bad,” they “aren’t in their plate”: Ne pas être dans son assiette.

10. French people don’t “lose their temper,” they “have mustard going up their nose”: Avoir la moutarde qui monte au nez.

French expressions for different states of mind

11. French people aren’t “hung over,” they have a “wooden face”: Avoir la gueule de bois.

12. French people are not “stupid,” they “have the same IQ as an oyster”: Avoir le QI d’une huître.

French expressions for doing certain things

13. French people don’t “eat on the go,” they “eat on the thumb”: Manger sur le pouce.

14. French people don’t “bite off more than they can chew,” their “eyes are bigger than their belly”: Avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre.

15. French people don’t say “it’s very cold,” they said “this cold is made for a duck”: Un froid de canard.

16. French people don’t say “things get nasty,” they say “things are turning into vinegar”: Touner au vinaigre.

17. French people don’t “sleep in,” they “have a fat morning”: Faire la grasse matinée<.

French expressions for spending money

18. French people don’t “waste money,” they “throw money out the window”: Jeter l’argent par les fenêtres.

19. French people don’t say “for next to nothing,” they say “for a mouthful of bread”: Pour une bouchée de pain.

20. French people don’t say “it costs a fortune,” they say “it’s as expensive as the eyes of my head”: Coûter les yeux de la tête.

21. French people aren’t “rich,” they “ride on gold”: Rouler sur l’or.