du coq-à-l’âne – French expression

passer du coq-à-l’âne – to go from the rooster to the donkey. passer du coq-à-l’âne means ‘to go off on a tangent, on tangents’, ‘to talk in non sequiturs’, ‘to change the topic of conversation illogically’, ‘to keep jumping from one subject to another’. The verb ‘sauter’ – to jump – is also used a lot with this expression.

• « Je n’ai rien compris à son histoire. Il n’a pas arrêté de sauter du coq à l’âne. »
  • “I did not understand his story at all. He kept jumping from one subject to another.“

Tenses and Modes

Negative command forms : Ne passons pas du coq-à-l’âne

passé simple : nous passâmes du coq-à-l’âne

present subjunctive: que nous passions du coq-à-l’âne

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