Hello, dear friends! Thank you for joining me for this new episode of the Authentic French podcast. Today, we are going to study a nice expression together. I really like this expression. The title or the expression is "un coup de pied dans la fourmilière". So that is the title of the expression. We are going to see how the French, the French speakers, use it almost on a daily basis or in any case you have the opportunity, the opportunity, to hear it on a daily basis.
This does not mean that every French person uses it on a daily basis, that would be an exaggeration, but in any case you can find it in the press, in newspapers, you can hear about it in a film, you can read about it in a book. So, it is a very interesting and important expression to know. "A kick in the anthill".
Don't forget, if you want to reinforce your usa whatsapp number data learning, your understanding, don't forget to download the free PDF sheet that accompanies this episode. You have a link in the description, as usual. Let's go, we're going to start by explaining the meaning of the different words. We're going to talk about kick and anthill.
"A kick" is the action of hitting with your foot. Often, you hit something. If you kick, I don't know, a door, well you hit the door with your foot. To kick is to hit with your foot. Sometimes children, when they fight, when they argue, they kick each other. That means they hit each other with their feet. That's a kick.
"An anthill" is... you recognize the word "ant", these very well-known little insects that are certainly small but can carry objects or pieces of food much larger than themselves, they are ants. Well, ants, they often live in underground areas. So, these are galleries that are dug underground and are called anthills. So the anthill is the ants' home. Sometimes it's under the ground, sometimes it's above the ground. We see part of it on the outside, it looks like a small pile of earth and the rest happens below. That's an anthill, it's the place where the ants live.