Avoir la pêche
Meaning: To be full of energy and on top form.
Language: French
Literally: To have the peach
Category: Food & Drink
Origin: From colloquial French, where the round, healthy peach pictures a burst of vitality and good spirits.
More idioms — Food & Drink
- Faire chou blanc — To draw a complete blank; to fail.
- Ramener sa fraise — To butt in or show off uninvited.
- To bite off more than you can chew — To take on more than you can handle.
- To take with a pinch of salt — To regard a claim with healthy skepticism.
- To butter someone up — To flatter someone to win their favor.
- Das ist nicht das Gelbe vom Ei — It's not ideal; not quite good enough.
More French idioms
- Avoir une araignée au plafond — To be a little crazy.
- Ça m'en touche une sans faire bouger l'autre — I couldn't care less; it leaves me utterly indifferent.
- Prendre son pied — To take intense pleasure; to have a wonderful time.
- Il pleut comme vache qui pisse — It's pouring down — a crude, vivid way to say the rain is coming down extremely hard.
- Mettre la puce à l'oreille — To arouse someone's suspicion or make them uneasy about something.
- Sortir de ses gonds — To fly into a rage; to lose one's temper suddenly and violently.
From our compliments & insults
- 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.
- Peau de vache — A mean, difficult, and unpleasant person — tough and unyielding like tanned hide.