Le mot du jour : “raconter des salades”
Raconter des salades means to tell lies.
“Raconter” is to tell a tale and “les salades” are all the kind of
leaves you can eat (lettuce, chicory, spinach…) but also the dishes
like “salade niçoise”
It’s not very clear for me why salads would mean lies. Maybe because they look lovely and fresh but leave you still hungry at the end? 😉
Anyway, if a French person says : “Il m’a raconté des salades”, it means someone made an elaborate lie, a little bit like spinning a yarn in English.
