French Idioms and their English meanings

An idiom is a phrase or an expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. They are usually established in language by their common usage.

Idioms are often different from a country to another country.

Here’s a few French idioms and phrases and their equivalence in English

French Idiom	Literally Translated	English Idiom
Il pleut des cordes	It rains ropes	It rains cats and dogs
Quand les poules auront des dents	When the hen will have teeth	When pigs fly
On ne peut pas etre au four et au moulin	You can’t be at the oven and at the mill	One can’t be in two places at once
Ce n’est pas ma tasse de thé	It is not my cup of tea	It’s not my bowl of rice
Filer á l’anglaise	To take English leave	Take French leave
Avoir le vent en poupe	To have the wind in one’s sails	All wheels in motion
Noyer le poisson	to drown the fish	To beat around the bush
Jamais deux sans trois	Never two without three	Never twice without thrice
Courir sur le haricot	To run on the bean	To get on someone’s nerve