Passer entre les gouttes
It was between downpours on a chilly June evening in Paris that we were able to duck into Le Mouffetard, a venerable bistro in the Latin Quarter, for a big bowl of onion soup.
The expression, "passer entre les gouttes," means to pass between raindrops. In its figurative sense it means to just barely avoid a bad or uncomfortable situation.
Vocabulary
une goutte: a drop
la goutte: gout (as in the metabolic disease which causes painful swelling of joints, and especially toes, due to deposits of urates)
une saucée: a downpour
une averse: a shower
une saucée: a downpour
une averse: a shower
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Ohhh, thank you very much, Erina!
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