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Hi everyone, I hope you're well and having a great day. Welcome to this video where we'll take a look at a French expression in just a few minutes.

Today, we're going to take a look at the expression se prendre un râteau.

Literally, to take a rake, it means to take a rake, you see, it's a tool we use in the garden, often, to rake leaves, we take it in the head.

And this expression comes from this very image. You may have seen it in cartoons; it's a bit of a recurring gag.

Someone is walking and is going to step on part of the rake that's on the ground, and the rake rises up and hits the person's head.

Of course, this colloquial expression is mostly used figuratively.

Taking a rake means that we've tried to seduce someone, but we haven't succeeded. The person didn't let himself be seduced, he put a stop to us. She's not interested in us.

You get a rake. It's kind of the same pain. Except it's not a physical pain, it's a pain in the heart.

It hurts to get a rake. I'll give you two contextualizations so you understand.

For example, if I'm walking down the street and a guy comes up to me and asks for my phone number and I say no thanks, I'm not interested, I'm already in a relationship. He'll say he's been raked over the coals and I'll say I've raked him over the coals.

Here's another story I read on the Internet. It's about a boy who went to his hairdresser to get his hair cut, and they were having a good laugh together. So, as he was leaving, he asked her out for a drink.

He invited her for a drink, and she replied that she'd just come out of a very long relationship, that she didn't feel like starting to see other boys.

So he writes on the Internet that he's been raked over the coals by his hairdresser.

Often, when you're being raked over the coals, it's because the other person doesn't really like you, so they'll say something like, "I'd rather we stayed friends, I don't want to spoil our friendship".

If it's someone you know. Or, as I said, I've just come out of a relationship or I'm in a relationship. Even if sometimes that's not true.

Well, that's the end of that little colloquial expression "taking a rake".

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