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French expressions / Illustration book

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If you’ve already read this on my blog, sorry about the copy/paste :)

Hey, here are some other pictures of another handbook I’ve made this week. Really sorry if you’re not french, this expressions are sometimes a little bit untranslatable!

On the cover, the sentence is simply “This is a book with illustrations on some french expressions”

-”Boire la tasse” is to “to swallow water” in english.

-”La tête dans les nuages” is to be distracted, like “the head in the clouds”.

-”Raser les murs” is like “to shave the walls” haha, but the english expression equivalent is “to hug the walls”.

-”Rapide comme l’éclair” is “quick as a flash”.

-”Chanter comme une baleine”, or “to sing like a whale” is like “to sing out of key”.

-”Il pleut des cordes”, literally “It’s raining strings” is the equivalent of “it’s raining cats and dogs”.

-”Vendre la mèche”, literally “Sell the drill” is like “give the game away”.

Hope you like it again!

4 Comments

  1. vegazvegaz says:

    Comment se procurer ce petit bijou ?

  2. alex fuentes says:

    Very impressive and clever stuff.

  3. Jakestheman says:

    Love the starkness, very nice



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