Collocations for "French"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "French" in context.
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french
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- frenched [her, his girlfriend, a stranger]
- frenched her in [public, the park, the back row]
- frenched at the [movies, show, park]
- frenched (each other) for the first time
- french the (green) beans
- french the [beans] [with] a [julienne slicer, mandoline]
- ask [the, your] butcher to french the [chops, ribs]
- french [the chops, ribs]
- frenched [with, using] a (sharp) knife
'French' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Canada
- Dutch
- F
- Lebanon
- Morocco
- Russian
- Swiss
- acquaintance
- architect
- architecture
- badly
- bakery
- best
- bilingual
- borrow
- bread
- brew
- camp
- can
- cheese
- chemist
- child
- citizen
- citizenship
- comprehension
- contingent
- counterpart
- cuisine
- devil
- dressing
- equivalent
- establishment
- eve
- exercise
- fancy
- fashion
- favorite
- film
- fluently
- foreigner
- french
- fry
- furnished
- get
- grammar
- grasp
- holder
- horn
- immigrant
- import