“Prendre la mouche” is a fun little French expression that translates literally to “to take the fly”. English meanings include: According to expressio.fr, the French meaning is to get angry easily, often over a futile reason. Papa prend toujours la mouche quand il rate les sorties sur l’autoroute.
mouche British English: fly/flaɪ/ NOUN A flyis a small insect with two thin, clear wings. American English: fly/ˈflaɪ/ Arabic: ذُبَابَة Brazilian Portuguese: mosca Chinese: 苍蝇 Croatian: muha Czech: moucha Danish: flue Dutch: vlieg European Spanish: mosca Finnish: kärpänen
The original cast of La Mouche, Scott Baker, James Davies, and Bill Green perform at The Drilling Company Theatre in New York City. this play before any size audience.) A French restaurant in New York. The customer sits alone at a table and makes a startling discovery.
French mouches became popular with both men and women by the 1700s. At the time, it was popular to have pale, milky white skin, and women liked mouches because they enhanced the radiance of their skin and brought out their skin’s whiteness. Men liked them too and used them to hide defects, but they wore fewer in number than women.