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Nationality Words in French Idioms

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Nationality Words in French Idioms game quiz
"Do you dare to test the street-credibility of your French? This is idiomatic and slangy French you probably don't pick up at school."

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1. What do the French mean by "le téléphone arabe"?
    mobilophones
    morse communications
    rumours
    smoke signals


2. What is "un trou normand"?
    butterscotch candy with a hole in the middle
    a slight hungry feeling
    a chunk of vanilla-icecream floating in a mix of apple-brandy and molten butter
    a little glass of alcohol in between courses of meals


3. What kind of answer do you get when you are given "une réponse de Normand"?
    an ambiguous answer
    a very polite and quiet answer
    a loud aggressive answer
    no answer at all


4. What sort of stories are sometimes called "des histoires marseillaises"?
    white lies
    jokes
    exaggerated stories
    sex stories


5. Who do the French refer to as "les biftecks" or les "rosbifs"?
    the English
    the Americans
    the Belgians
    the Germans


6. Which of these reduplicative expressions refers to food ?
    miam-miam
    chi-chi
    glou-glou
    bla-bla


7. Which of these nations do the French describe as either "les Bataves" or "les Nouvelle-Lunes"?
    the Dutch
    the Australians
    the New Zealandese
    the North-African immigrants


8. What do the French refer to when they speak of "un petit suisse"?
    a very dry beef sausage in a pepper crust
    a bar of Swiss Toblerone chocolate
    a kind of soft cheese
    a small cup of coffee with more milk than coffee


9. Who do the French call either "les boches" or "les chleus"?
    the Czechs
    the Germans
    the Hungarians
    the Austrians


10. What do the French call "une auberge espagnole"?
    a hotel for illicit love-affairs
    a tapas bar
    a very disorderly place which needs cleaning up
    a place where the guests eat and drink what they have brought in themselves


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Compiled Jun 28 12