Hello, dear friend! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for joining me for this new episode of the Authentic French podcast. Today, we are going to study together, we are going to discover together an idiomatic expression used by the French, by French speakers, and it is the expression "crier sur tous les toits".
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We'll start now with the different words that make up the expression "shout from the rooftops".
"Screaming", I think you know what it means, it means to shout, to force your voice or to speak very loudly. Well, there's no one at my house, I can shout. I'm not going to shout into the brazil whatsapp number data microphone, but if you shout, you say: "hey!!!" or "oh!!!". There, I shout. It's when you speak very loudly or then I didn't speak very loudly, I just forced my voice and they say that I shouted or that I shouted.
We have the word "all" or "all", but here it is "all", shout from the rooftops. "All" means the totality, the entirety. If I talk to you about all my friends, well I talk to you about all my friends, I don't forget any of them. If I have 10 friends, I talk to you about my 10 friends. If I talk to you about 9 friends out of the 10 that I have, I don't talk to you about all my friends. "All" is really when there is the entirety. We haven't forgotten anything, it's the entirety.
A "roof" is the upper part of a house or a car, a train etc. it's what's on top. If you look at a house, the house often has a sloping roof, that is to say the roof is not flat. It can be flat sometimes, but often we have houses with roofs that form an angle and that's where, for example, the rain will arrive. If there is rain, it will fall on the roof. The roof of the car is what's on top, it's always the upper part in fact. It's the same for a plane, a train etc.