des plans sur la comète – French expression

tirer des plans sur la comète – Mot du Jour

tirer des plans sur la comète – tirer is to pull, des plans means plans, things you’re planning on doing, and sur la comète means on the comet. tirer des plans sur la comète – to pull plans on the comet – is an idiomatic expression that means ‘to make plans for the future that are unlikely to happen’, that ‘you may be delusional’. Sometimes, FAIRE is used instead of TIRER: faire des plans sur la comète.

• « Il me dit qu’il va faire beau au village demain. Il tire des plans sur la comète. »
  • “He tells me that the weather will be nice at the village tomorrow. I’m thinking ‘Unlikely’.”

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