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Hello everyone, I hope you're well and that your learning French always goes very well. Today, we're going to take a look at some French expressions, picture expressions and idiomatic expressions involving fruit and vegetables. There are lots and lots of French expressions involving fruit and vegetables. I've selected 15 expressions, the 15 that I personally use the most in my everyday life.

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Let's start with the first expression. Fainting. I fainted this afternoon. I didn't have time to eat at lunch, my blood pressure plummeted and I had a hypoglycemic attack.

I can't stand the sight of blood. Every time I see someone bleeding, I faint.

To pass out means to faint. To lose consciousness means to faint.

The second expression is "being squeezed like a lemon". At work, I really feel rushed. I'm asked to do a lot of things in a very, very short time, and I feel very stressed. When you say you're squeezed like a lemon, or someone says I'm squeezed like a lemon, it means they're feeling oppressed. When you squeeze a lemon, it's to get its juice.

We squeeze it, we crush it. Here, it's the same thing. It's as if we're being oppressed, crushed into doing something, until we take our last drop of energy, all our juice.

Split the difference. You sell your car for 2,000 euros. My budget is 1,500 euros. Maybe we can split the difference and I'll pay you 1,750 euros for the car. I'd like to live in Paris and my husband would like to live in Marseille.

We're going to split the difference and move to Lyon. It's more or less in the middle. When we say we're splitting the difference, it means we're trying to find a solution that suits both people to a greater or lesser extent. We're trying to reach an agreement, to find a balanced solution that suits both parties.

The next expression is "putting butter in the spinach". During the day, I work in a bookshop. I love books, but my salary is very low.

In the evenings, I also work for a few hours in a bar. I sell on Vinted all the clothes that are too small for my baby. It's a bit of a chore. Putting butter in the spinach means doing something that allows you to earn a little more money, and therefore improve your financial situation a little, or sometimes even a lot.

On the house. You're so good to me. Whenever I'm thirsty you bring me a drink, whenever I'm hungry you feed me, whenever I'm cold you give me a sweater. You really take care of me. The footballer's injury has been treated with the utmost care by his physio. He'll soon be back on the pitch. To be treated with the utmost care, to be looked after with the utmost care, means that you're really well looked after, you're treated like a king or like a queen.

An artichoke heart. As soon as a girl smiles at Thomas, he falls in love with her, he's a real artichoke heart. Every time I watch a movie where there's a declaration of love, I start crying, I'm a real artichoke heart. When we say that someone is an artichoke heart, it means that he's very sensitive to love, to romance. That they can also fall in love very quickly. It's a slightly negative expression.

It can be used to say that the person is really too sensitive and falls in love too easily.

I feel like a peach, a banana or a potato. This morning, I got up at 6 a.m. to go for a jog. I'm really feeling good. Tonight, I'm going out clubbing. I feel like I'm going to be dancing into the wee hours. Théo is really in the mood today, and it's great to see him happy, smiling and motivated.

To be peachy, banana or potato means to be in a good mood, to be motivated. No matter which of the three fruits or vegetables you choose, peach, banana or potato, it means the same thing. It means you are happy, in a good mood, motivated.

The following expression is the verb poireauter. I've been standing outside the restaurant for 20 minutes. What are you up to? Are you coming soon?

Carla kept me waiting for three hours because her train was late. The verb poireauter comes from the green vegetable poireau. It's a verb used to mean to wait. Poireauter is really colloquial, it's slang. Don't say to your boss who's late for a meeting "you made me wait for ten minutes". We use the image of a leek because it's a straight vegetable and it's like waiting like a stake.

The next expression is "bullshitting". My daughter tells me bullshit, she tells me she doesn't have a lover, but I see she keeps getting text messages from a boy called Jimmy. I've put on at least ten kilos during confinement. Don't bullshit me, you're walking into another 36. Bullshit is telling lies, saying things that aren't true.

The following expression is half fig, half grape. Happy that school starts tomorrow?

I'm half in, half out. On the one hand, I'm happy to be back with my friends, and on the other, I'd rather be on vacation than go to school.

I'm a bit on the fence about this dress. I really like the color, but I don't really like the material of the dress. Half fig, half grape means having mixed feelings. On the one hand, we're happy. On the other hand, you're not very happy, so you're half satisfied, half dissatisfied. It's half fig, half grape.

Almond eyes. Claire has almond-shaped eyes, and her gaze cracks me up. When we say that someone has almond eyes, we mean that they have elongated eyes in the same shape as the fruit, the almond.

A good sucker. I found a good sucker to drive me to the shops, wait for me in the parking lot and take me home afterwards. I really am a sucker. I agreed to do all the shopping and cooking for my son's soccer team on my own. Being a sucker, or when you say someone's a sucker, it means they're too nice.

That people can abuse this kindness, take advantage of the person. Because we know he's nice, because we know the person is nice, we're going to take advantage of him. Generally speaking, when we say that someone is a sucker, it's quite negative, it means that they're being taken advantage of by others.

To take the melon or to have the melon. Ever since Théo was promoted, he's really taken the melon, he's got a big head. He doesn't even eat lunch with us anymore, he thinks he's better than us. Since you've been dating Brad Pitt, you've really got the melon. I admit it, but there's something to it. Taking the melon or having the melon means that you think you're better than others, that you have a big ego, that you feel you're above everyone else. You're pretentious if you're a girl.

It's the end of the beans. If we're still confined in September 2021, that's really the end of the beans. If I lose my job, that's the end of the beans for me, I won't be able to pay my rent. When we say it's the end of the beans, it's really a catastrophe, it's the end of the world, it's the end of everything. There's no hope left.

The last expression we're going to look at today is "step on it". Step on it. We've still got 600 kilometers to go, and we'll never get there before dark if you keep driving so slowly. Put your foot down, it's an expression used when you're in a car or on a bus, in transport.

It means speed up. If you tell someone to step on it, you're telling them to go faster, accelerate.

That's it for today. I hope you've learned some new expressions. In any case, I hope you enjoyed the video. If you liked it, don't forget to add a like or a comment. If you're new to the channel, don't forget to subscribe to receive all the videos.

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