Sentence examples for french expression from inspiring English sources
The French expression jolie laide could have been minted for this joint.
Her police record, as the French expression quaintly has it, "remained virginal".
The answer might lie in another French expression: L'histoire ne repasse pas les plats.
(See the meaning of the French expression "Le quart d'heure de politesse," Page 127).
We'd talked about the French expression for going to the 'toilettes.' I'd say: 'To me, it should be restroom.
The French expression jolie-laide is typically used to describe a striking woman who is not conventionally attractive.
"There's that French expression 'If only the young knew, and the elderly could still do,' " she said.
She added emphatically in an old French expression, "He certainly has gall".
Savoir vivre is a French expression that English finds it needs.
"You know the French expression 'jolie-laide'so 'so ugly she's pretty'?
In a little shop attached to his barn, Mr. Durand has a list of French expressions using the cow.
