See above translation for the sentence about disappointed re: toilet paper.

Melinda S.B2Kwiziq community member

See above translation for the sentence about disappointed re: toilet paper.

Is the first example (Examples and Resources) an error or a weird idiom?

Asked 2 months ago
Maarten K.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor Correct answer

Melinda, 

I presume you are referring to ' être chocolat ' - it is indeed a French expression. 

You can get an idea of its frequency of use over many years from the google ngram viewer site in the last link.

 https://www.wordreference.com/fren/%C3%AAtre%20chocolat

 https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/chocolat/15562#locution

 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%C3%AAtre+chocolat&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=fr&smoothing=3

Melinda S. asked:

See above translation for the sentence about disappointed re: toilet paper.

Is the first example (Examples and Resources) an error or a weird idiom?

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