Après moi le déluge
Meaning: What happens once I am gone is not my problem.
Language: French
Literally: After me, the flood
Category: Daily Life
Origin: Attributed to Louis XV, or to Madame de Pompadour after the defeat at Rossbach in 1757. The attribution is uncertain and the sentiment reads as a prophecy of 1789, which is why it stuck.
More idioms — Daily Life
- Le démon de midi — The midlife crisis, especially its romantic form.
- Mentir comme un arracheur de dents — To lie brazenly and habitually.
- Dur à la détente — Slow to understand — or, in the other sense, reluctant to part with money.
- Qui paye ses dettes s'enrichit — Settling what you owe leaves you better off than owing it.
- Faire son deuil de quelque chose — To accept that something is lost and give up on it.
- Jeter son dévolu sur quelque chose — To settle firmly on something one intends to have.
More French idioms
- À Dieu ne plaise — God forbid.
- Dieu reconnaîtra les siens — Act without discriminating and let a higher authority sort out the innocent.
- Mon petit doigt m'a dit — I know something you did not expect me to know.
- Dorer la pilule — To make an unpleasant fact easier to accept by dressing it up.
- Qui dort dîne — Sleep takes the place of a meal you cannot afford.
- Se la couler douce — To take life very easy indeed.
From our proverbs
- The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat. — Proximity to difficulty yields greatest reward; best results come from reaching hardest d…
- He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. — Destiny determines how we meet our end; those fated for one doom escape all others.
- They that are bound must obey. — Captive people have no choice but to submit to their captor's will and commands.
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