What does merde il pleut mean

Members Current visitors. Interface Language. Log in. Install the app. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Or is it Great Britain - I never know? An aside: it wasn't the done thing for fathers to be at the birth of their children back then.

In fact I think mine was playing darts in his local pub when news came through that he had a new son. I like to think it put him off hitting the double he needed to win his darts match. He might have bought a round of drinks even. I also think he'd have preferred a new motorbike but I shan't hold that against him. And they'd have all said the same thing. We are constantly being told in the form of one survey or another how we spend our time. You know the sort of thing.

We spend 3 years of our lives at traffic lights, 6 months cutting our toenails, 7 years on the toilet, 62 years waiting for Currys to deliver a washing machine. I could go on. In continental Europe, we have Mars instead of Milky Way. This modern but extremely widespread expression is used as a reply to someone who has just made a preposterous request or expressed unreasonable expectations.

Said to stop someone who is overexcited, or is acting so enthusiastically that they may make reckless decisions. It dates back to the 19th century when rich people came to the theater and opera house in horse-drawn carriages.

Horses produce a lot of merde , and you could generally judge the popularity and success of a show by the amount of merde in front of its venue.

I conclude with that expression because it hides an interesting story. Vache here is in fact a corruption of Occitan gavach , which is a derogatory term for the seasonal, uneducated workers that used to come down from the Spanish Pyrenees to find work in the southwest of France.

Several regional languages , sometimes only remotely related to French, are still spoken today. This piece was originally published on Matador Network on June 21, Sign in. Carrie Speaking Follow. Future Travel covering travel in a new age. Future Travel Follow. French il pleut fort. English it's raining hard. French 1. English 1. French 6. English 6. French merde il pleut. English shit it's raining.

French il pleut merde.