un navet - Mot du Jour

a flop – French expression

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un navet – a turnip. In everyday French, un navet is also used to describe a bad movie, a flop.

• « C’est vraiment dommage que ce film n’ait pas marché car c’est loin d’être un navet. »
• “It is a pity that people didn’t like this movie because it’s far from being a flop.”

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