🇫🇷 French, taken literally
Mettre de l'eau dans son vin
Literally
to put water in one's wine
What it really means
to tone it down, to compromise
Keep the ones you liked. We will bring them back before you forget.
French, taken literally
Poser un lapinto place a rabbitQuand les poules auront des dentswhen hens will have teethEntre chien et loupbetween dog and wolfAvoir le cafardto have a cockroachArriver comme un chien dans un jeu de quillesto appear like a dog in a bowling alleyÊtre comme une poule qui a trouvé un couteauto be like a hen that found a knife