faire la soupe à la grimace
Meaning: Complaining or grumbling about something constantly.
Language: French
Literally: to make grimace soup
Category: Food & Drink
Origin: Making soup while grimacing expresses discontent about the process.
More idioms — Food & Drink
- avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre — Taking more food than one can actually eat; wanting too much.
- manger du bout des lèvres — Eating without appetite or showing disinterest in the meal.
- in den sauren Apfel beißen — To accept an unpleasant necessity or disagreeable situation with resignation and stoicism.
- comerse un rosco — To fail completely or strike out; to get nothing at all in a romantic or competitive cont…
- mangiare la foglia — Understand someone's hidden intentions or see through their deception immediately.
- piangere sul latte versato — Waste time regretting something that cannot be changed or undone.
More French idioms
- avoir les pieds qui démangent — Wanting to travel or move to a different place.
- être aux petits soins — Receiving attentive, careful treatment and consideration from someone.
- montrer les dents — Displaying aggression, defiance, or readiness to fight.
- faire un esclandre — Creating a public disturbance or embarrassing scene.
- être un ours — Being unfriendly, grumpy, and difficult to approach socially.
- avoir une mémoire d'éléphant — Having exceptional ability to remember details over time.
From our tongue twisters
- Si six scies scient six cyprès, six cents scies scient six cents cyprès. — An 's' / 'si' minefield.
- Dans ta tente ta tante t'attend. — A gentle 'ta / ten / tan / t'' warm-up that sounds faster than it reads.
- Seize chaises sèches sur seize arches sèches. — A relentless collision of 'sei', 'sèch', and 's' — the tongue can't find traction.