avoir des fourmis
Meaning: Experiencing a tingling or prickling sensation in a limb losing circulation.
Language: French
Literally: to have ants
Category: Body & Senses
Origin: The sensation resembles tiny ants crawling on the skin.
More idioms — Body & Senses
- avoir un chat dans la gorge — Having difficulty speaking due to hoarseness or a sore throat.
- avoir un bleu — Having a bruise on the skin from impact or injury.
- avoir une dent contre quelqu'un — Holding a grudge or resentment toward someone.
- avoir le trac — Feeling nervous or anxious before a performance or important event.
- avoir une grosse tête — Being arrogant, conceited, or thinking highly of oneself.
- avoir la chair de poule — Experiencing fear, cold, or emotional reaction causing skin reaction.
More French idioms
- être sur des charbons ardents — Being extremely anxious or impatient about something.
- se battre contre les moulins à vent — Fighting a hopeless battle against something immovable or pointless.
- faire ses choux gras — Profiting greatly from a situation at someone else's expense.
- avoir un tuyau — Having inside information or a useful tip about something.
- être à court de — Lacking or running low on something essential.
- prendre ses rêves pour des réalités — Confusing fantasy with reality; living in delusion.
From our compliments & insults
- Casse-pieds — A massive bore or pain in the neck — someone who wears you down with their irritating way…
- Espèce de patate — You dim bulb — a potato being the very picture of inert, unthinking stodginess.
- Quel râleur / quelle râleuse — You never stop moaning — everything is a complaint, nothing is ever good enough.