Écrire un poulet à quelqu'un
Meaning: To send a love letter.
Language: French
Literally: To write someone a chicken
Category: Animals
Origin: A billet-doux was folded with two corners drawn out to a point, which left it looking like a bird with wings. The shape named the letter, and the letter kept the name after the folding stopped.
More idioms — Animals
- À la queue leu leu — In single file, one behind another.
- Avoir la queue entre les jambes — To slink off humiliated.
- Manger à tous les râteliers — To take advantage from all sides at once, with no loyalty to any.
- Une bête de somme — Someone worked relentlessly at heavy, thankless labor.
- Se faire prendre pour un pigeon — To be duped as an easy mark.
- Avoir les portugaises ensablées — To be hard of hearing.
More French idioms
- Laid comme un pou — Extremely ugly.
- Le plancher des vaches — Dry land, as seen from the sea.
- Secouer comme un prunier — To shake someone violently.
- Le marchand de sable est passé — The children are getting sleepy.
- Un pique-nique — A meal eaten outdoors to which everyone contributes.
- Cracher dans la soupe — To disparage the thing that sustains you.
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- Tête de mule — An impossibly stubborn person who refuses to change their mind no matter what.
- C'est une vraie chèvre — They're hopelessly stubborn and infuriating — a goat that refuses to be moved.
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