The French use food in everyday expressions
Given the French obsession for food, food-related idioms are commonplace when expressing situations that are going well or badly in everyday life.
Certain items are used in expressions of annoyance, such as ‘La moutarde me/lui monte au nez’. Literally this is ‘the mustard is getting up my/ ...
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