Je vous le donne en mille
Meaning: You will never guess.
Language: French
Literally: I give it to you in a thousand
Category: Daily Life
Origin: The full form was je vous le donne en mille à deviner — I bet you a thousand to one you cannot guess it. The wager shrank to the challenge.
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- Une cour des miracles — A squalid, lawless place.
- Affirmer mordicus — To insist on something absolutely and refuse to be moved.
- Être dans les bras de Morphée — To be fast asleep.
- Prendre au mot — To hold someone to exactly what they said.
- Un moulin à paroles — Someone who talks incessantly.
- Sainte Nitouche — A woman who feigns innocence she does not have.
More French idioms
- Le nerf de la guerre — Money, as the thing without which nothing can be done.
- Convoler en justes noces — To get married.
- Trancher le nœud gordien — To solve an intractable problem by refusing its terms.
- Chercher des noises — To pick a quarrel deliberately.
- Être en odeur de sainteté — To be in favor with someone in authority.
- Œil pour œil, dent pour dent / La loi du talion — Retaliation exactly proportionate to the injury.
From our proverbs
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- After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. — Digestion benefits from rest after heavy meals and movement after light ones.
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