{"id":989,"date":"2012-01-17T19:03:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=989"},"modified":"2012-01-17T19:03:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:03:47","slug":"quand-le-vin-est-tire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"Quand le vin est tir\u00e9…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Expand your knowledge of French phrases:<\/p>\n

Quand le vin est tire\u00e9 il faut le boit:<\/span>
\nLiterally: When the cork is drawn, you must drink the wine:
\nIn for a penny, in for a pound.<\/p>\n

Un malheur ne vient jamais seul:<\/span>
\nLiterally: A misfortune never comes alone:
\nIt never rains but it pours.<\/p>\n

cf. Shakespeare, Hamlet:
\nWhen sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.<\/p>\n

Taken from: ‘Don’t toss 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":"

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