{"id":1060,"date":"2012-02-08T15:54:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T14:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2012-02-08T15:54:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T14:54:51","slug":"du-dit-au-fait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"Du dit au fait…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two more French expressions for you:<\/p>\n

Du dit au fait, il y a un grand trait :<\/span>
\nLiterally: From speech to action is a long gap:
\nFine words butter no parsnips.<\/p>\n

Trop parler nuit, trop gratter cuit :<\/span>
\nLiterally: Too much talking harms, too much scratching burns:
\nLeast said, soonest mended.<\/p>\n

If, like me, you thought that ‘nuit’ meant ‘night’ you are usually right, but here it is taken from the verb ‘nuire’ which means to harm.<\/p>\n

Sayings taken from: ‘Don’t\u00a0toss Granny in the Begonias: Faut pas Pousser M\u00e9m\u00e9 dans les B\u00e9gonias’ by Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Claudel-Gilly and Primrose Arnander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two more French expressions for you: Du dit au fait, il y a un grand trait : Literally: From speech to action is a long gap: Fine words butter no parsnips. Trop parler nuit, trop gratter cuit : Literally: Too … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[80,79],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-h6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}