What do they call French toast in France? (And other similar questions)
Read moreIn English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
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- What's the worst faux pas an Englishman can make in a pitch?
- Realizing the faux pas, the confused singer made up a few impromptu dance moves before walking off the stage.
- Even though it is no longer considered a fashion faux pas, I refuse to wear white after Labor Day.
- Trust me, this will help greatly in preventing any possible faux pas or embarrassment.
- But I feel I'm committing some terrible faux pas and trendy typography buffs are probably sniggering at me.
- And the second faux pas is the proliferation of checked shirts.
- When bureaucrats pointed out the faux pas, she corrected the order.
- But look at how confusion and indecision have prompted a fashion faux pas.
- For example, they might be less likely to recognize that a social faux pas or insult could cause someone else offence.
- Well, I personally don't think that was a faux pas at all, seeing as you asked whether anyone else wanted it first.
- Well you wouldn't want to read that book, obviously, but it's the sort of thing you need to know about in order to avoid making embarrassing faux pas.
- I tune in for the fashion firsts, the fashion faux pas, and to see what's in fashion.
- Political correctness is de rigueur while offering dinner guests non-organic vegetables is a serious faux pas.
- Correcting other people's children is a faux pas that will earn you a cold shoulder from the respective parent.
- Howard could have done without this most recent faux pas.
- This is a faux pas the government should swiftly make amends for.
- This can be an amusing approach when you're talking about fashion faux pas and such like.
- Every social faux pas, every cruel word, every embarrassment returns with fresh power to demoralise.
- Will my nationally aired faux pas and charisma catastrophes ever desist?
Further reading
12 ways to say goodbye in other languages
Find out moreEnglish has borrowed many of the following foreign expressions of parting, so you’ve probably encountered some of these ways to say goodbye in other languages.
55 words ending in ‘ster’ you didn’t know you needed to know
Find out moreMany words formed by the addition of the suffix –ster are now obsolete - which ones are due a resurgence?
