Hello everyone! I hope everything is going well for you. I welcome you as every week in a new podcast episode of Français Authentique, a podcast during which, I remind you, we see together the meaning of a French idiomatic expression.
Last week, we saw the meaning of the expression " retourner sa veste ". I hope that this is not your case, that you came to listen to the podcast and that you are not going to turn your jacket at the last minute. If you want more explanations and examples about this expression, do not hesitate to listen to last week's podcast. Today, we are going to see together the meaning of the expression "faire froid dans le dos".
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Here we go! We start with the israel whatsapp number data explanation of the words of our expression “to send shivers down your spine”.
To make cold means to make cold, to lower the temperature.
And the back is the posterior part of the human body that goes from the shoulders to the kidneys.
Regarding the meaning of the expression, well originally, when we are cold, our whole body trembles and shivers. Trembling, cold sweats and chills are also reactions to another feeling which is fear. So, by extension, being cold gave birth to this expression. So, it will be used in a figurative sense from the end of the 19th century. So, the expression means to scare very much or to inspire intense fear. So, there is a variation to this expression, we can also say "to give goosebumps".
I'm going to give you three examples, three different contexts so that you can understand the meaning of the expression a little better.
First example: "A body was found in the port of Antwerp last night. It's chilling." So, here, we see that we are in a context where we find the body of an inanimate person, so we say that it's chilling in the sense that it's scary, it inspires fear.
Second example: "My neighbor discovered today that a man had been living in her attic for years. It's chilling." So, here, we understand that there is a person who discovers that a man has been living in her home, in her attic, for years. So, indeed, it's scary, it inspires intense fear.
And finally, third example: "Do you know the case of little Gregory? It's a chilling story." So, I don't know if you know this case that happened in France. You can go and see, if you want, on the internet to get a little more details, but indeed, it's a story that happened with a little boy, which is really very scary and which, therefore, is chilling.
Now let's move on to a little pronunciation exercise with words in "fr", so, the sound "fr", and the sound "oi". So I'm going to pronounce some words and I'll give you time to repeat after me.