faire florès

Meaning: To achieve success and build a reputation.

Language: French

Literally: to make flowers

Category: Nature

Origin: The image is of flourishing like flowers in bloom, a metaphor for prosperity and prominence.

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• fuir comme la peste — To avoid something or someone as much as possible.
• tomber à l’eau — To be canceled or abandoned.
• battre les fourrés — To range far and wide in search of adventure or chance encounters.
• prendre le maquis — To go into hiding or join a resistance movement to escape authority or persecution.
• remuer ciel et terre — To exert all possible effort and use every available means to achieve a goal.
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• beurrer épais — To exaggerate or overdo something.
• mettre ses deux mains au feu — To stake one's reputation or safety by guaranteeing something is true.
• tendre les bras — To offer help and support to someone, or to welcome them warmly.
• retourner à la case départ — To find oneself back where one began, as if no progress had been made.
• sentir la naphtaline — To be old-fashioned or antiquated.
• passer maître — To become the foremost expert in something.

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