Transcript

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

I hope you're comfortable. Don't forget that you can activate English or French subtitles if you need them.

Today, we're going to look at a funny expression. It's funny for someone who doesn't speak French, whose language isn't French.

This expression means having a hair in your hand. A hair is what you have on your arms or legs. We have a hair here in our hand. This expression simply means that we're lazy. We're really, really, really lazy.

We're lazy for a girl. You're a bit soft, you're not very ambitious. In English, we say "to be work shy".

It's a bit like being work-shy, you don't really like it. This expression is quite old, dating back to the 19th century, so it was used to refer to people who were lazy, who didn't really like to work.

Back then, there was a lot of manual labor. So little use was made of the hands that a hair could grow in them.

In reality, I don't think it's really possible for hairs to grow in the palm of your hand, or for a hair to grow in the palm of your hand.

Here are two scenarios to help you better understand this expression. Cynthia really has a hair in her hand. She stays in her room all day playing video games and only goes out to eat the meals her mother makes. She's really lazy.

Here's another context. Pierre, my colleague, is a real handful. He never does more than is asked of him. He always does the minimum and never comes up with any additional ideas. He's really lazy.

That's it for this little video. I hope you enjoyed it. Don't hesitate to let me know in the comments if there's an expression in your language for really lazy people who don't like to work very much.

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