Franglais - Call my bluff on borrowed French words or phrases
What is chic?
- female companion
- smart and stylish
- slim
- graceful
What do you mean by "mal de mer"
- Sick mother
- discontent
- toothache
- sea-sickness
What does "a la mode" mean?
- smooth and suave
- resembling a dessert
- fashionable
- like the average
What is the real meaning of the word mêlée
- aged TV personality
- crowd
- musical composition involving different tunes
- hand-to-hand fight
What is distrait?
- dishevelled
- absent-minded
- a specific tray, opposite of dat tray
- weak
What is a résumé
- new start
- judgment based on insufficient evidence
- summary
- a soup served cold
What is a parvenu?
- poor person
- father of Venus
- ignoramus
- upstart
What is the meaning of liaison?
- falsehood
- conspiracy
- enfeeblement
- co-ordination of activities
What is a mailaise?
- uneasiness
- hatred
- inhabitant of Mali
- acute pain
What is the meaning of the word habitué?
- one who frequents a place
- smartly dressed person
- man about town
- drunk