Avoir plus d'un tour dans son sac
Meaning: To have resources in reserve.
Language: French
Literally: To have more than one trick in one's bag
Category: Body & Senses
Origin: The bag is the conjuror's, holding more than the one trick already performed. It is a compliment, unlike most French phrases about having something up a sleeve.
More idioms — Body & Senses
- Vider son sac — To say everything one has been holding back.
- À tue-tête — At the top of one's voice.
- Dire ses quatre vérités à quelqu'un — To tell someone exactly what is wrong with them.
- Avoir la main verte — To have a gift for growing plants.
- Entrer dans le vif du sujet — To get to the heart of the matter.
- Tomber dans les pommes — Suddenly losing consciousness — possibly derived from the older expression 'être dans les…
More French idioms
- De la poudre de perlimpinpin — A worthless remedy sold with great confidence.
- Un lit de Procuste — A standard imposed regardless of what it does to the thing being measured.
- Le rocher de Sisyphe — A labor that must be repeated forever and never completes.
- Le supplice de Tantale — Having what one wants permanently in sight and permanently out of reach.
- Une solution de continuité — A break or gap — not, despite appearances, a solution to anything.
- Demain, on rase gratis — A promise perpetually postponed.
From our proverbs
- Better one eye than quite blind. — Partial knowledge or capability, however limited, surpasses complete deprivation.
- What the eye sees not, the heart rues not. — Ignorance of misfortune shields us from suffering its emotional weight.
- You should never touch your eye but with your elbow. — Protecting your eyes requires maintaining impossible distance from contamination.
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