Walnut Expressions

Participatory glossary of uses of the food metaphor.

Our local agricultural production goes through all the sauces.
A good number of expressions in the French language use comparisons, metaphors, puns using greedy, flowery and alimentary language my dear Watson... We are going to try together to get the right word from drunkenness... It's is therefore an interactive article and if you have expressions and their meanings, we are interested and we will publish them.

Pass out → lose consciousness
Take a plum, get drunk → get a fine
Take a prune → get shot
Restore your cherry → recover financially or in terms of health
Cracking nuts → be painful
Calf raised under the sea → that’s just a spelling mistake
The icing on the cake → the extra thing, either positive or really too much
Make a duck → for wind musicians playing a wrong note
It's still going to be for my apple → it still falls on me
Having too much energy → overflowing with energy
Eat apples → expression that became famous thanks to the “Guignols de l’info” at the beginning of the century
Get a chestnut → get a little electricity
Stop bringing your strawberry → Try not to constantly put yourself forward
But what a pie! → variant cooked with eggs
What a quiche! → That he or she is stupid
It's not worth it → it's not worth it; Moreover,
cultural aside, did you know that Nespouls owes its name to this fruit?
Eating dandelions by the root ! → be dead and buried!
To be fooled → to be fooled or to catch a cold, to be fooled!

Contribution from Christelle C. (via the website):

To be taken for a ham (see the expression above to be rolled in flour)
Put your spleen on the boil → worry severely
Have the heart of an artichoke → give love to everyone (cf. Embrasse les tous by G. Brassens)
Going crazy → completely losing control
Face of cake → idiot
It's nonsense → it's nonsense, it doesn't hold water
Make yogurt → sing the words of a song that you don't know, especially in a foreign language and therefore phonetically: not very precise and not at all understandable
Wading in the semolina → being a little lost and making efforts in vain
Be attentive → show a lot of thoughtfulness and attention
Have a smile → be all smiles,
Having a potato → which indicates that you are full of energy
Walking on eggshells → walking as lightly and discreetly as possible
The mustard rises to the nose → anger sets in
Salt and pepper hair → having graying hair or variegated white hair

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