Cracher dans la soupe

Meaning: To disparage the thing that sustains you.

Language: French

Literally: To spit in the soup

Category: Food & Drink

Origin: The soup is what is being provided, and fouling it is both ungrateful and self-defeating. It is said of employees and of countries.

More idioms — Food & Drink

Trempé comme une soupe — Drenched to the skin.
Payer rubis sur l'ongle — To pay in full, immediately and to the last penny.
Faire avancer le schmilblick — To make actual progress on something.
Avaler des poires d'angoisse — To endure something bitterly painful.
En cinq sec — In no time at all.
Une tarte à la crème — A tired cliché trotted out as though it were an argument.

Jeter de la poudre aux yeux — To create a dazzling false impression.
Tenir à quelque chose comme à la prunelle de ses yeux — To guard something as one's most precious possession.
Allumer ses quinquets — To open one's eyes and pay attention.
Couper le sifflet à quelqu'un — To silence someone abruptly, usually with an unanswerable point.
Être dans ses petits souliers — To be acutely ill at ease.
Mordre la poussière — To be defeated; to fall.

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Ressourcement — The act of returning to one's roots or origins to find renewal — going back to a place, t…
Dépaysement — The disorienting yet often pleasant feeling of being far from home, immersed in the unfam…

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