Daily French Expressions

Here are the French expressions we saw this week for those who follow me on facebook, the address is: http://www.facebook.com/pages/FrenchSpanishOnline/141518825538

339- Daily French Expressions: une bagnole: a car (slang)

ça, c’est de la bagnole: this is what I call a car!
Ne touche pas à ma bagnole: hands off my car.

340- Daily French Expressions: être de bon poil: to be in a good mood

Fais gaffe, il n’est pas de bon poil: be careful, he is not in a good mood.
Mais tu es de mauvais poil ce matin: but you are in a bad mood this morning.

341- Daily French Expressions: dur à avaler: hard to take

Il a eu du mal à avaler la nouvelle: h found the news hard to take
Nous sommes virés? c’est dur à avaler: we are fired? it is hard to swallow.

342- Daily French Expressions: une gaffe: a blunder

Je crois que j’ai fais une gaffe: I think I made a blunder!
J’ai gaffé, je lui ai dit c’est quoi la surprise: I blundered, I told him what the surprise is.
However “fait gaffe” means ‘be careful’.

343- Daily French Expressions: Fais de beaux rêves: sweet dreams.

Bonne nuit, fais de beaux rêves: good night, sweet dreams!

344- Daily French Expressions: Avoir le trac, Avoir l’estomac noué: to have butterflies in the stomach

To have butterflies in the stomach: “avoir le trac” or “être nerveux” or “avoir l’estomac noué”. Je suis nerveux, j’attends les résultats de mon examen (I have butterflies waiting the results of my exam). J’ai le trac avant de chanter (I have butterflies before singing)

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