Walnut Expressions

Participatory glossary of uses of the food metaphor.

Our local agricultural produce is used in all kinds of sauces.
Many expressions in the French language use comparisons, metaphors and plays on words in a language that is gourmand, flowery and foody, my dear Watson... Together we're going to try to find the right word for the drunkenness... So, this is an interactive article and if you have any expressions and their meanings, we'd love to hear about them and publish them.

To faint → to lose consciousness
To get a prune → to be fined
Catch a prune → get shot at
Catch a cherry → recover financially or health-wise
To crack nuts → to be a pain
Veau élevé sous la mer → this is just a spelling mistake
La cerise sur le gâteau → the extra something, either positive or really too much
To make a duck → for wind instrument musicians to play a wrong note
It's going to be my turn again → it always falls to me
Avoir trop la pêche → bursting with energy
Manger des pommes → expression that became famous thanks to the "Guignols de l'info" at the beginning of the century
Se prendre une châtaigne → take a bit of electricity
Arrête de ramener ta fraise → Try not to put yourself forward all the time
But what a pie! → a variation cooked with eggs
What a quiche! → How stupid he or she is
Ça ne vaut pas des nêfles → it's not worth it; besides,
as a cultural aside, did you know that Nespouls owes its name to this fruit?
Eating dandelions by the root! → be dead and buried!
To be taken for a ride → to be fooled or to have a cold, to be taken for a ride!

Contribution from Christelle C. (via the website) :

To be taken for a ham (see the expression above to be rolled in flour)
To get one's spleen in a knot → to worry severely
Avoir un cœur d'artichaut → to give love to everyone (cf. Embrasse les tous by G. Brassens)
Partir en cacahouète ou en sucette → completely lose your temper
Tronche de cake → imbecile
C'est du flan → it's all bollocks, it doesn't hold water
Faire du yaourt → sing the lyrics of a song that you don't know, especially in a foreign language, so in phonetics: not very precise and not at all understandable
Patauger dans la semoule → to be a little lost and to make efforts in vain
To be tidy → to show a great deal of thoughtfulness and attention
To be cheerful → to be all smiles,
Avoir la patate → to be full of energy
To walk on eggshells → to walk as lightly and discreetly as possible
Mustard on the nose → anger setting in
Salt-and-pepper hair → greying or mixed with white hair

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