As the Saying Goes

Question 1

Un tien vaut mieux que deux tu l’auras.

Answer 1

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Question 2

Ca me donne la chair de poule.

Answer 2

It gives me goose pimples.

Question 3

Fais moi La courte échelle.

Answer 3

Give me a leg up.

Question 4

Je vais au petit coin.

Answer 4

I’m going to spend a penny.

Question 5

Cul sec!

Answer 5

Bottom up!

Question 6

Ils étaient endimanchés.

Answer 6

They were dressed up to the nines.

Question 7

Je l’ai appris par le bouche à l’oreille.

Answer 7

I heard it through the great wine.

Question 8

Les chiens ne font pas Les chats.

Answer 8

He is a chip off the old block.

Question 9

Ils m’ont reçu comme un chien dans un jeu de quilles.

Answer 9

They gave me the cold shoulder.

Question 10

Il a essayé de me faussée compagnie.

Answer 10

He tried to give me the slep.

Question 11

Elle lui obéit du doigt à l’œil.

Answer 11

She is at his beck and call.

Question 12

Ils l’ont échappé belle.

Answer 12

They had a narrow escape.

Question 13

Motus et bouche cousue.

Answer 13

Mum’s the word.

Question 14

Il a obtenu le job par piston.

Answer 14

He got the job through a bit of string-pulling.

Question 15

C’est un échange de Bon procédés.

Answer 15

One good tunes deserves another.

Question 16

C’est dans l’adversité que l’on reconnaît ses vrais amis.

Answer 16

One friend in need is a friend indeed.

Question 17

Ils sont à couteaux tirés.

Answer 17

They are at loggerheads heads.

Question 18

Bien fait pour toi.

Answer 18

Serves you right.

Question 19

J’espère qu’elle ne me posera pas de lapin.

Answer 19

I hope she won’t stand me up.

Question 20

À quelque chose malheur est bon.

Answer 20

Every black cloud has a silver lining .

Question 21

Un malheur n’arrive jamais seul.

Answer 21

It never rains but it pours.

Question 22

Tu ne l’emporteras pas au paradis

Answer 22

You won’t get away with it.

Question 23

Il me casse les pieds.

Answer 23

He’s a real pain in the neck.

Question 24

C’est une pomme de discorde entre eux.

Answer 24

It’s a bond of contention between them.

Question 25

On ne récolte que ce qu’on sème

Answer 25

You reap what you sow.

Question 26

Elle vieillit un peu.

Answer 26

She’s getting on a bit.

Question 27

Les nouvelles ont fait l’effet d’une bombe.

Answer 27

The news came as a bolt as a bombshell.

Question 28

Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point.

Answer 28

Slow and steady with the race.

Question 29

Ce qui est fait est fait.

Answer 29

It’s no crying over split milk.

Question 30

Il faut battre le fer tant qu’il est chaud .

Answer 30

Make hah while the sunshines.

Question 31

Cela se produit tous les 36 Du mois.

Answer 31

It happens only once in a blue moon.

Question 32

Oublions le passé

Answer 32

Let by gones be by gones.

Question 33

Ca te rappelle qqch ?

Answer 33

Does it ring a bell?

Question 34

Tel père tel fils.

Answer 34

Like father like son.

Question 35

On Lui donnerait le Bon dieu sans confession.

Answer 35

He looks as if Butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth.

Question 36

Je suis sur Les charbons ardents.

Answer 36

I’m on the tenterhooks.

Question 37

J’étais au septième ciel.

Answer 37

I was on cloud 9.

Question 38

Il s’est dégonflé.

Answer 38

He got cold feet.

Question 39

Il a eu du mal à garde son phlegme

Answer 39

He had difficulty keeping a stiff upper lip.

Question 40

Je n’en menais pas large.

Answer 40

My heart was in my mouth.

Question 41

J’avais le trac.

Answer 41

I had butterflies in my stomach.

Question 42

J’ai d’autres chats à fouetter.

Answer 42

I have other fish to fry.

Question 43

Chat échaudé craint l’eau froide.

Answer 43

Once bitten, twice shy.

Question 44

Il faudra que tu fasses contre mauvaise fortune, Bon cœur.

Answer 44

You will have to make the best of a bad hand.

Question 45

Il faut utiliser Les coutumes Du pays

Answer 45

When in Rome do as the romans do

Question 46

You cannot have your cake and eat it.

Answer 46

On ne peut pas avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre.

Question 47

Il ne faut pas exagérer.

Answer 47

To Far East is west.