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(trans.): What a wiz around the house! <p>(lit.): What a fairy in the domicile!</p> <p>On n'apprend pas a un vieux</p> <p>singe a faire la grimace.</p> <p>(trans.): You can't teach an old dog new tricks.</p> <p>(lit.): You can't teach an old monkey to smile.</p> <p>If a French native were to offer you une assiette au beurre (a plate of butter) or invite you to faire du leche-vitrine (to go window licking), you might not know whether to accept -- that is, unless you have read this second book in David Burke's Street French series.</p> <p>Street French 2 explores yet another "inside" language that must be mastered in order to be considered truly fluent in French: idioms- -- those quaint and quirky expressions that can't be understood literally but are used in every conceivable conversational situation.</p> <p>Now you can learn the best of French idioms through entertaining word games, dialogues, crossword puzzles, find-a-word grids, and special tips guaranteed to make you au jus (up-to-date or, literally, juiced up) in no time!</p>
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- Author
- Burke, David
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780471138990
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Anthropology
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