5 DAILY IDIOMS to say "expensive" in French

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5 DAILY IDIOMS to say "expensive" in French

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Bonjour tout le monde. I hope you're well and in good shape for this new French video.

Today, I'm going to show you a short video in which we'll take a look at five French expressions. Five colloquial expressions you can use with friends or family to say that something is expensive, that it costs a lot of money. I've also written an article on 11 French slang words about money.

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By the way, I don't know if you remember, but I had already made a video about money-related expressions. I'm going to put it above so that you can see it or watch it again if you're interested or if you'd like to have as much vocabulary as possible on the subject of money.

This video is going to be quite simple, because the five expressions we're going to see together mean exactly the same thing. "It's expensive" in colloquial language.

Before I start, and you know this costs nothing at all, I'd like you to "like" my video. You know that's important to me, that it shows that you support my channel and my work.

There's something quite funny about it. I don't know if it's the same in your language. To express in colloquial language that something is expensive, we'll refer to body parts.

In French, to say that something is expensive, we'd say, for example, "ça coûte un bras" ("it costs an arm").

An arm is this. It costs an arm. By the way, let me know in the comments if this is also the case in your native language, if we also refer to body parts to say that something is expensive.

And above all, tell me which part we are referring to.

So it costs an arm and a leg, but you could also say it costs a kidney.

The kidney is an organ in the human body - we normally have two - that filters waste from the body. It's really very useful.

In French, to say that something is expensive, again, I repeat, in colloquial language, you can say ça coûte un rein.

It's still about body parts, but it's a little more colloquial. It's a bit more vulgar because it costs an arm or it costs a kidney, but you can still use it in everyday language.

On the other hand, the next one to avoid is "it costs the earth".

So skin is what you have all over your body. And here, it costs the skin of the buttocks. It's really expensive.

The following colloquial expression is also related to the body. But it's true that it's a bit of a strange expression. You could also say, "ça coûte les yeux de la tête".

The eyes of the head. This expression is a bit strange because you don't have eyes anywhere but on your head, but that's how you can tell.

This car really costs the eyes of the head, who can put 200 000 € in a car?

And finally, the last colloquial expression to say that something is expensive, which we're going to look at today. This is a departure from the body's vocabulary.

The expression is "ça coûte bonbon".

Candy, nothing to do with the sweets, the candies you may know, for example Haribo.

Bonbons comes from the repetition of "bon". Back then, when something cost "bon", we meant it was expensive.

Today, we say ça coûte bonbon. To say that something is overpriced, very expensive.

Organizing a wedding, it costs a lot of money, it costs an arm and a leg, it costs the eyes of the head or it costs a kidney.

That's it for today, I hope you enjoyed this little video and learned some new colloquialisms.

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