Le mot du jour : “rouler dans la farine”
I was thinking of this expression the other day when I was in the shop looking everywhere for a little bit of “farine” (flour).The expression has nothing to do with the disappearance of flour but means “to trick someone” and can be translated into “to roll in the flour”.
In a tale of Jean de La Fontaine (XVIIth century), a cat rolls himself in the flour and hide in the bread bin to try and catch a rat, but the old rat is clever and doesn’t fall for the trick.Unfortunately, we are not all as clever as the rat, and it still can happen that someone “vous roule dans la farine”!
