Un froid de canard

valeriegenc

Un froid de canard literally means “a cold of duck”. It is only used for an extremely cold and hostile weather. It apparently comes from duck hunting, when, in winter, hunters had to keep very quiet in the cold, looking for the ducks!

 Image: 1045373 on Pixabay

Published by valeriegenc

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s