une araignée au plafond – Mot du jour

to be totally nuts – French expression

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What does ” avoir une araignée dans le plafond ” mean? How do you say ‘totally nuts ’ in French? How is it pronounced? How is it used in a French sentence? Listen to Anne, a French native say it at FrenchHour.com.

avoir une araignée au plafond - to have a spider at the ceiling. In today’s French, the expression avoir une araignée au (dans le) plafond means that someone’s brains - le plafond - is inhabited by a wild beast - une araignée. it means that something’s wrong, that they are really out here, nuts.

• « Elle a pas fait ça ? C’est pas possible, elle doit avoir une araignée au plafond. »
• “She didn’t really do that? That can’t be right, she must be totally nuts.”

Try using this expression at least 4 times today.

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