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Post by Penny on Oct 9, 2007 11:51:25 GMT -5
well it's really not a riddle but:
If you can translate this into the American expression you will not have one ;D
un jour du cheveux mal
sorry no accent marks as I am copying direct from a book.
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Post by Jody on Oct 9, 2007 12:59:53 GMT -5
I guess you mean a bad hair day! I always have bad hair days!
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Post by Happygoin on Oct 9, 2007 13:52:30 GMT -5
And I, with my elementary French, was thinking...a bad day of horses...
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Post by geordy on Oct 9, 2007 15:55:29 GMT -5
Well we all..I think..have had bad hair days! And yes Gitte, we use that expression here too..if you have a headachey.hangover folks have been known to say "Even my hair hurts!"
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Post by Shoesy on Oct 9, 2007 22:48:19 GMT -5
Hmmm....then can a bald person say: "Even my hair hurts..... and I don't even have any!"
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Post by Shoesy on Oct 10, 2007 0:21:24 GMT -5
I'm not even going to ask where that "elsewhere" may be. ;D
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Post by Shoesy on Oct 10, 2007 0:39:33 GMT -5
Of course the French have bad hair days, Gitte. Maybe not in Paris, but wherever there's a Mistral. Hair cannot look good when there's constant wind.
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Post by Anne on Oct 10, 2007 2:36:10 GMT -5
No, we don't have any similar expression, that's why at first I couldn't understand what Penny meant in this thread .
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