tomber à l’eau

Meaning: To be canceled or abandoned.

Language: French

Literally: to fall into the water

Category: Nature

Origin: The phrase pictures a plan falling into water and sinking away, becoming lost.

More idioms — Nature

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.
de aquellos polvos, estos lodos — Consequences or problems arise later from careless or harmful actions taken earlier; misd…
a contracorriente — To act or think in opposition to prevailing opinion, custom, or the natural course of eve…
ahogarse en poca agua — to panic or overreact to a minor problem.

ne plus savoir où donner de la tête — To be overwhelmed with work or demands.
avoir les yeux qui sortent de la tête — To stare with eyes wide open in anger or astonishment.
faire le pont-levis — For a horse to rear up very high.
faire baiser les verges — To force someone you have mistreated to beg your pardon.
retourner l’estomac — To disgust or sicken someone, to make them feel nauseous.
remonter plus haut — To begin a story or explanation at an earlier point in time to clarify or better illumina…

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