![]() How to pronounce it: Ill fay uhn fr-oo-ah duh dee-ab-luh.Published 19 April 2016 | PDF | 1.1 MB 3.5 Vocabulary Literally meaning something like: ‘it’s devilishly cold’, use this when you’ve just settled in front of the fire with a hot drink after braving the Great Outdoors (ideally, with a cat snoozing on your lap, and several fleecy blankets to ward off the unforgiving winter chill). ‘À verse’ comes from the French verb ‘verser’, which means ‘to spill’.Īnd this is what to use when it’s REALLY cold, like that time in 2010 when it was the coldest British winter for a century, with rows of cars buried under the snow and Scotland welcoming no less than 15,000 skiers to its slopes. This is the French translation of ‘it’s pouring with rain’, which is also what it literally means. (For a more in-depth look at the rain-related trials and tribulations faced every day by anyone living in Blighty, have a look at Rob Temple’s brilliant Twitter and account for his book Very British Problems). Just because I’m British (which of course means I expect it to rain at least once – and change season at least twice – every day), I’ve chosen yet another expression about rain. ![]() How to pronounce it: Say fray ah fair oor-lay lay loo. This literally means: ‘it’s cold to make wolves howl’. Now, let’s throw a French-Canadian expression into the mix. An English translation of this one would be ‘it’s raining buckets’ or ‘it’s raining pails’. Literally meaning ‘it’s raining strings’, an English translation would be ‘it’s raining cats and dogs’.Īnd if just one wet weather-related expression isn’t enough, you’ve always got this one to fall back on. If you’re searching for the perfect French phrase to describe the cold driving rain that so often comes along in winter (and unfortunately also in summer if you’re in Britain), this is it. Ill fay uhn tohn duh co-shohn (il fait un temps de cochon). How to pronounce it: Ill fay uhn tohn duh shee-ahn (il fait un temps de chien). Or for more wildlife-related weather idioms, what about ‘il fait un temps de cochon’, otherwise literally translated as ‘it’s pig weather’? Obviously, the perfect illustration for this is a micro pig in wellies □ Literally meaning ‘it’s dog weather’, otherwise translated as ‘it’s awful weather’. How to pronounce it: Ill fay un fr-oo-ah duh can-arr.Īnd here’s another animal-related one. We might translate it as: ‘it’s absolutely freezing’. ![]() To start us off, why not add this quirky animal-themed expression for your phrasebook? It literally means something like ‘it’s duck-cold’. If you’d like to read more French-language posts, have a look at how to greet people authentically in French here, ten French expressions to use to sound like a native speaker here or how to learn a language in ten simple steps here! So if you run out of ways to talk about the cold snap in your native language, why not use these French expressions below? And snow and ice have also been seen in more unexpected places, after snow fell in the United Arab Emirates at the start of February. Outside of America, it’s also been getting rather nippy in Europe over the last month. Well, sorry to disappoint you all, but for 2017, Phil’s ventured out and ‘ seen his shadow‘, meaning that America has to put up with six more weeks of winter. If Phil ‘sees his shadow’ and makes a U-turn back into his burrow, the good people of Pennsylvania will be in for six more weeks of winter.īut if Phil doesn’t see his shadow and he gamely stays out to face up to the bitter winter chill, he’s apparently predicted that spring will come early. Every February, along with his, erm, ‘phamily’ made up of wife Phyllis and daughter Phelicia, Punxsutawney Phil pokes his nose out from his cosy burrow in rural Pennsylvania.
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