Hello my dear friends and welcome to this new episode of the Authentic French podcast. And today, like every Sunday, we are going to study an idiomatic French expression together. And today's, which is "aux quatre coins de...", is relatively often used. There are certain expressions that I teach you that are rarely used, that you come across in really typical French content and that I recommend that you only understand and not necessarily know, today's will be really useful to you if you want to speak... not like a French person, because as a non-native, it is difficult to speak like a French person, but in any case to express yourself in the same way that a French speaker would.
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So what does this expression “in the four corners of…” mean?
Four is a number. You know the number 1, 2, 3, and 4. Then there's 5. So you know the number 4.
A corner is used to refer to the angle of a room or an object. It can be a slightly pointed end. For example, if I have a desk, there is the corner of the desk. It is the place, the angle in fact, between the length and the width of the desk. This is what we call a corner. There can be the corner of a room which is the place where two sides meet. That is a corner.
And this expression "at the four corners of...", it has been used since the 16th century and it is taken from two different images, which you will understand well. The first is that of the four cardinal points on a compass. On a compass, we have the four cardinal points: north, south, east and west, which indicate directions, well there are four corners, four possible directions.