French: Elle a l'air bonne pareille à du bon painEnglish translation: She looks as sweet as pie 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | Elle a l'air bonne pareille à du bon pain | | English translation: | She looks as sweet as pie | | Entered by: | Carol Gullidge |
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Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings / teenage historical novel | | French term or phrase: Elle a l'air bonne pareille à du bon pain | This is a description that one character, a valet at the court of Versailles, is giving of another, the mother of a poor Italian family of immigrants. I don't understand what he's saying here - whether it's to be taken literally or whether it's some idiom that I don't get. Thanks for any help!
"-Il y a Antonietta, la mère, expliqua-t-il en désignant du menton la femme d'une quarantaine d'années au visage triste et fatigué qui se tenait près de la table. **Elle a l'air bonne pareille à du bon pain**, mais moi je m'en méfierais! J'aime pas so regard fuyant, je la trouve sournoise, comme son mari, d'ailleurs..." |
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 Carol Gullidge
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| Note from asker to answererI'm going with this one. Thanks Carol and all.
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| She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth
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| bcsantos
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