Pomme de discorde
Meaning: The particular thing two parties are fighting over.
Language: French
Literally: Apple of discord
Category: Daily Life
Origin: Eris threw a golden apple marked for the fairest among the goddesses, and the judgment of Paris that followed led to the Trojan War. The apple's whole function was to start a quarrel.
More idioms — Daily Life
- En grande pompe — With elaborate ceremony.
- Comme le Pont-Neuf — In excellent shape despite considerable age.
- Enfoncer une porte ouverte — To make a great effort to establish something nobody disputes.
- La portion congrue — A bare minimum, grudgingly given.
- Saoul comme un Polonais — Extremely drunk.
- Défendre son pré carré — To protect one's own territory or area of authority.
More French idioms
- Lâcher la proie pour l'ombre — To give up something real in pursuit of something illusory.
- Nul n'est prophète en son pays — Recognition is hardest to win from the people who know you.
- Une victoire à la Pyrrhus — A win whose cost makes it indistinguishable from defeat.
- En quarantaine — In quarantine; isolated from contact.
- Tomber en quenouille — To decline into neglect; to fall apart through mismanagement.
- Sans queue ni tête — Making no sense at all.
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- Blesser — Actually means 'to wound' or 'to injure'. Je suis blessé = I am injured — not blessed.
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