Lost in Literal

🇫🇷 French, taken literally

Poser un lapin

Literally

to place a rabbit

What it really means

to stand someone up

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French, taken literally

Quand 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 knifeParler français comme une vache espagnoleto speak French like a Spanish cow