La main dans le sac

What ate you referring to?

Hi Barbara,

If you mean the expression 'La main dans le sac'?

Être pris la main dans le sac, is to be caught red-handed  ..

I mean all of those little sayings.  the cat one is  easy  guess just have to learn them par coeur..

thats the french language and why we love learning it.  I love your program and how it is presented.  I am a longtime etudiante ever since Laura first started  just like to moan occasionally.

Hi Barbara, 

Another one for you which describes language learning well I feel :

Petit à petit l'oiseau fait son nid....

Hi Paul,

As this is a technical question could you re-post it using the Help and Support button ?

It is sometimes helpful to use an online dictionary like, e.g., this one:

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/french-english/jurer

French differs a bit from English in this respect. In French, the focus is more on the single person. ...our legs at our neck: one person has one neck. In English you would say ... our legs at our necks, arguing that there are multiple persons and hence more than one neck. Not so in French.

Putting your foot in it.