You know more French than you think
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You probably know more French than you realize. These are a few
phrases which may have come out your mouth at one time or another.
;- Renaissance - Rebirth
- Rendez-vous - Render-you (A meeting)
- Risqué - Risked (Provocative)
- Roué - Wily, debauched
- RSVP - Répondez, s'il vous plaît - Please respond
- Sacré bleu! - Sacred Blue (An old-time profanity - Thank you: Staralfur)
- Sangfroid - Cold blood
- Savoir-faire - Know how to act
- Tel père, tel fils - Like father like son (Thank you: Olaitan Akol)
- Touché - Touched (You got me)
- Tour de force - Feat of strength
- Tête-à-tête - Head-to-Head (A private conversation between two people)
- Vin du pays - Wine of the Country (Local wine)
- Vis-a-vis - Face-to-Face (Compared with)
- Vive la différence - Long live the differences (There are very few things that are different between the sexes, but as the French say ....)
- Voilà ! - There it is!
- Vol-au-vent - Flight of the wind
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