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French: à faire sécher les oreilles

English translation: beggars belief/can't believe my ears



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French term or phrase:à faire sécher les oreilles
English translation:beggars belief/can't believe my ears
Entered by:Maria Callebaut
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French term or phrase: à faire sécher les oreilles
A possible buyer has just heard that the owner of a house has promised to sell it to somebody else…. She says:
“L’entendez-vous! Mais c’est à faire sécher les oreilles!”

(the women is from Quebec!)
Maria Callebaut
Belgium
beggars belief/can't believe my ears
Explanation:
the english climate is too damp for dry ears!
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monxmood
France
Note from asker to answerer
thanks a lot:-)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2beggars belief/can't believe my ears
monxmood
3It's bullshit!
Olga V
3Jesus wept!
Conor McAuley


  


Answers

12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
beggars belief/can't believe my ears

Explanation:
the english climate is too damp for dry ears!

monxmood
France
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
thanks a lot:-)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Jennifer White: yes, think "beggars belief" is good here
2 mins

agree Aisha Maniar
14 mins
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Jesus wept!

Explanation:
I can't believe it!

What's all that about?

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Note added at 36 mins (2005-06-09 13:46:43 GMT)
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That/It would make you go deaf!

Conor McAuley
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
It's bullshit!

Explanation:
It's bullshit!
He talks bullshit!
Yshi vyanyt!

Bullshit (or bull) is a common English expletive meaning "humbug" or "nonsense." It implies that the purveyor of alleged nonsense is willfully lying, or that he/she is speaking boldly from ignorance. It is also the verb meaning to talk bullshit.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)



Olga V
United States
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Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
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