Hello everyone and thank you for joining me for this new episode of the Authentic French podcast. And today, we are going to discover together an idiomatic French expression, as we do every Sunday evening. And today's expression is "les bras m'en tombe". Maybe you have already heard this expression in a French film, in a magazine, maybe you have read it in a magazine, whatever, this expression is used by French speakers. Les bras m'en tombe.
Before moving on to the content, I would like to briefly tell you about the Authentic French Academy , because it is the large Authentic French community that offers both exclusive content and Zoom discussions with our tutors and with me of course. And we protect this academy because we actually want to welcome members all at once, we have a long park... 'well, long, it's not a long journey, no, it's an integration journey that is very accomplished and that allows each of our members to be held by the hand in fact.
And for that or for that reason, we decided to close registrations for the academy 90% of the year. And the next registrations are scheduled for July 1st. So if you're interested, you can now singapore whatsapp number data go to the description of this episode, discover the content of the academy and join the waiting list to be informed when registrations open , because maybe at that time you'll be busy, it will be summer and it is, in my opinion, essential to go quickly, that is to say you receive the email, you see that registrations are open, you have already done the work in advance because you have already consulted the page. So I put the link at the bottom in the description.
And now let's study together the expression "my arms are falling off."
Arms are parts of the body, they are even parts of the upper limb of the human being, and it goes from the shoulder to the elbow. So we have two, we have a right arm, a left arm. And it is really the part that goes from the shoulder to the elbow. It is the arm.
To fall is to have a fall. If I drop my pen… I have a pen, there, I drop it, well it falls, it goes to the ground, it is attracted to the ground by its weight. If someone falls, if a human being falls, he loses his balance and ends up on the ground, his body is attracted to the ground. That is the meaning of the verb "to fall".
The expression "my arms are falling off" is an expression that appeared in the 18th century and the origin is not very exact as is often the case with French expressions, but the image used is quite telling in fact. We can imagine someone who would be very very surprised or who would even be so surprised that he could no longer move, that he could no longer do anything. And we imagine this person with his arms motionless and useless along his body, powerless, as if his arms were about to fall. You can imagine that, a super surprised person with his arms falling towards the ground and almost about to fall to the ground.