Daily Archives: 26 August 2011

‘Passer un savon à quelqu’un’ does not mean to pass the soap to somebody but ‘to give somebody a telling off ‘! And ‘une bribe de musique’ is not to bribe somebody with music but ‘a snatch of music’.

To avoid French titters, pronounce the ‘Bal’ in Balzac to rhyme with ‘Hal’ and not ‘hall’.