Se mettre sur son trente-et-un
Meaning: To dress up in your very best clothes.
Language: French
Literally: To put oneself on one's thirty-one
Category: Daily Life
Origin: Likely from 'trentain', a luxurious fine cloth woven with thirty hundreds of threads; dressing in it meant dressing splendidly.
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- Les doigts dans le nez — To do something with the greatest of ease.
- Avoir un cœur d'artichaut — To fall in love easily and often.
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- Être dans de beaux draps — To be in a real mess.
- Se faire rouler dans la farine — To be conned or deceived.
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