coup de foudre - Mot du Jour

love at first sight – French expression

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un éclair, un coup de foudre - a bolt of lightning

un coup de foudre. un coup is a stroke, de is of, and la foudre is a bolt of lightning. un coup de foudre, a bolt of lightning, a lightning strike. un coup de foudre is an idiomatic expression that means ‘love at first sight’.

• « Tu crois aux coups de foudre, toi ? »
• “Do you believe in love at first sight?”

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