d’amour et d’eau fraîche - French expression

Amour Et Eau Fraiche

vivre d’amour et d’eau fraîche – to be on top of the world – Mot du Jour

vivre d’amour et d’eau fraîche. vivre de is ‘to live off of’, amour is ‘love’, et is ‘and’, and eau fraîche is ‘fresh water’.vivre d’amour et d’eau fraîche., ‘to live off of love and fresh water’ really means ‘blindly in love’, ‘to be on top of the world, to be on seventh heaven, , to be walking on air, on cloud-nine’.

It’s often used in the negative form, meaning ‘you can’t live on love alone’. Tu ne peux pas vivre d’amour et d’eau fraîche.

  • « Ils sont tellement mignons, nos deux amoureux. Ils vivent d’amour et d’eau fraîche, sans soucis depuis trois mois. »
    • “Our two lovebirds are so cute. They’ve been on top of the world, living a worry-free life for three months now.”

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