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LIVING IN FRANCE
Walking On Eggshells or Marcher Sur Des Oeufs -English Or French, It Involves Treading Very, Very Carefully
Literally or figuratively, egg shells are easily crushed
I’ve never been a domestic goddess — anyone who knows me would fall on the floor laughing at reading this. Careful though if it’s my floor you’re falling on, I haven’t checked the kitchen yet this morning, but it wouldn’t be surprising if some pieces of shell from my breakfast egg missed the poubelle. . .
That’s trash can in English, but I like the French word — not exactly an oxymoron, but a sort of Franco/Anglaise contradiction. . . poo (stinks) and belle(beautiful)
But, back to the topic. Depending on your degree of domestic godliness, feeling the crunch of eggshells underfoot might be annoying, but I’d take it any day over walking on the metaphorical kind.
You know how it goes. There’s something — a subject, a name, a question — that in the interests of domestic, familial or any other kind of harmony must never, ever be mentioned.
Have you ever heard back from that guy — what was his name — who dumped you?
It took you how long to write that book? And you made how much?
