If you want to say ‘A blot on the landscape’ in French, you should say: ‘ Tomber comme un cheveu sur la soupe’. Literally this translates as: ‘To\u00a0fall like a hair\u00a0in the soup’.<\/p>\n
And for\u00a0 ‘To carry coals to Newcastle’, say: ‘Porter l’eau \u00e0 la rivi\u00e8re’. This translates literally as: ‘To\u00a0carry water to the river’.<\/p>\n
‘\u00catre \u00e0 cheval sur les r\u00e8gles’ literally translates as ‘To be riding on top of the rules’. We would say: ‘To be a stickler for the rules’.<\/p>\n
Taken from: ‘Don’t toss Granny in the Begonias: Faut\u00a0pas Pousser M\u00e9m\u00e9 dans les B\u00e9gonias’ by Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Claudel-Gilly and Primrose Arnander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you want to say ‘A blot on the landscape’ in French, you should say: ‘ Tomber comme un cheveu sur la soupe’. Literally this translates as: ‘To\u00a0fall like a hair\u00a0in the soup’. And for\u00a0 ‘To carry coals to Newcastle’, … Continue reading