Le mot du jour : “passer un savon”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Passer un savon” (to brush\n with soap) is an expression that means to scold someone and not at all,\n as you would expect, to give a soap to someone.
So now that soap \nhas become rare and precious, if a French person says “Je vais te passer\n un savon !”, don’t expect them to kindly share their soap with you but \nrather to give you an earful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am\n not sure where this expression comes from, but it always brings to my \nmind the image of a mum energetically washing her reluctant child \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n Le mot du jour : “passer un savon” “Passer un savon” (to brush with soap) is an expression that means to scold someone and not at all, as you would expect, to give a soap to someone. So now that soap has become rare and precious, if a French person says “Je vais te passer … <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"