Expression du mois:
Ne pas pouvoir en placer une / To be unable to get a word in edgewise
(traduction littérale : to be unable to place one)
Exemples :
J'ai rencontré ma voisine ce matin. Elle m'a tenu la jambe (1) pendant une heure, je (ne) rigole pas! Une heure! Elle ne s'arrêtait pas, je n'ai même pas pu en placer une!
I met my neighbor this morning. She talked my ears off for one hour, I'm not kidding! One hour! She wouldn't stop, I wasn't even able to get a word in edgewise.
(1) See the expression tenir la jambe
Please, by all means, feel free to suggest a better translation as I am not a native speaker. There might be an idiomatic expression that you can teach me and share with all the viewers of this site.
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