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Usually, "I feel like..." is an expression they use to express they would like to do something.
Here it's the opposite...
Here "I feel like..." just means I'm feeling as if...

good explanation  !

> it's very sweet
That's not common from Dawn French, that English comedian who often says harsh not to say rude words.

another proverb, but by Dawn French! LOL

A Dawn French version of "life is like a box of chocolates"
 For those who don't know about chillies, i can tell you that they are very hot !  
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The opposite is "the other way round" I do like that expression !

MurielB a écrit:The opposite is "the other way round" I do like that expression !

You are quite right Muriel.
"The opposite" has a strong meaning in English; in French we often use "au contraire" instead of "à l'opposé".

A Mum visits her son who lives with a girl roommate.
During the course of the dinner, his mother couldn't help but notice how pretty his roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only made her more curious.
Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between him and his roommate than meet the eye.
Reading his mum's thoughts, the son volunteered, “I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, we are just roommates."
About a week later, his roommate came to him saying, “Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the silver plate. You don't suppose she took it, do you?"
He said, "Well, I doubt it, but I'll email her, just to be sure."
He sat down and wrote :
"Dear Mum:
I'm not saying that you ‘did' take the silver plate from my house, I'm not saying that you ‘did not' take the silver plate .. But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.
Love,
Danny"
Several days later, he received an email from his Mother which read:
"Dear Danny:
I'm not saying that you ‘do' sleep with your roommate, and I'm not saying that you ‘do not' sleep with her. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her OWN bed, she would have found the silver plate by now, under the pillow…
Love,
Mum."

Hi Gérard, everyone !
I had to look up "I am screwed" in the internet

I am in a position that is a result of a problem or bad situation that seems impossible to solve/get out of

Muriel,

"Screwed" is much used in the United States.
You could probably see there were several meaning especially in slang.
Here the French equivalent might be from "nous sommes mal barrés" to "on est foutu".

thanks for the explanation !

gerardM a écrit:A Mum visits her son who lives with a girl roommate.
During the course of the dinner, his mother couldn't help but notice how pretty his roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only made her more curious.
Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between him and his roommate than meet the eye.
Reading his mum's thoughts, the son volunteered, “I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, we are just roommates."
About a week later, his roommate came to him saying, “Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the silver plate. You don't suppose she took it, do you?"
He said, "Well, I doubt it, but I'll email her, just to be sure."
He sat down and wrote :
"Dear Mum:
I'm not saying that you ‘did' take the silver plate from my house, I'm not saying that you ‘did not' take the silver plate .. But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.
Love,
Danny"
Several days later, he received an email from his Mother which read:
"Dear Danny:
I'm not saying that you ‘do' sleep with your roommate, and I'm not saying that you ‘do not' sleep with her. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her OWN bed, she would have found the silver plate by now, under the pillow…
Love,
Mum."

Clever mummy !

There's a butcher tending to his shop when a dog walks in.
The dog has a note in his mouth, with a $10 bill attached.
The butcher bends down and picks the note out of the dog's mouth, reading aloud he says: "2 pork chops please" and the dog sits.
The butcher, highly impressed, packages two pork chops for the dog, wraps them up and gives the bag to the dog who picks it up and exits the shop.
The butcher was so blown away that he decided he was going to follow this dog on his journey home, and closed up shop.
With the butcher following on the way home, the dog stopped at a stop sign and waited for traffic.
The dog got to a stop light which was red, he waited for it to turn green before crossing the street.
The butcher couldn't believe what he was seeing.
The dog stopped at a bus stop, a bus pulled up with the dog remained on the bench. When the next bus came the dog got on and so did the butcher.
After about five or six stops, the dog reaches his destination and him and the butcher exit the bus.
The butcher follows the dog 1 or 2 more streets around the corner, and stops short of the house at the end of the driveway.
So the dog walks up to the door, he sets the pork chops down and scratches at the door. Nobody answers the door.
The dog stood on his hind legs and scratched harder on the door. No answer.
Frustrated, the dog goes to the side of the house and uses his paw to tap on the window. He goes back to the front door, but nobody answers.
The dog begins to become frantic, and starts to hurl his body at the door slamming into it as loud as possible. He slams and slams and slams.
After about a minute of this, finally somebody opens the door. The dog's owner was not happy to see him, he immediately started to yell, calling the dog a complete idiot.
The butcher, who sees all this happening, ran up the driveway to the owner of the dog to get him to stop. "No!" He exclaimed, "This dog is a genius! I just followed him home, you wouldn't believe what I saw him do to get here!"
"Oh really?!" Says the owner, "Well this is the third time he's forgot his keys this week!!"

>80%women are against marriage I can't believe that

=>Whenever I find the key to happiness someone changes the lock
Fortunately there's always someone else to blame for what we've done or become. It's never our fault

someone you’d like to kill but don’t because you’d miss them too much.

Gérard thanks for a new example :  someone with "Them" instead of "him". The masculine doesn't take over the feminine as in France !

MurielB a écrit:

someone you’d like to kill but don’t because you’d miss them too much.

Gérard thanks for a new example :  someone with "Them" instead of "him". The masculine doesn't take over the feminine as in France !

Muriel, could you please tell us how Spanish, German languages address this issue?

Gérard, in spanish i would say
" Una persona que le gustaría matar pero no lo hace porque le echaría de menos demasiado"
In German
jemanden Sie möchte  töten, aber Sie töte nicht, weil Sie ihnen zu viel vermissen würde.

MurielB a écrit:Gérard, in spanish i would say
" Una persona que le gustaría matar pero no lo hace porque le echaría de menos demasiado"
In German
jemanden Sie möchte  töten, aber Sie töte nicht, weil Sie ihnen zu viel vermissen würde.

Muriel,
I'm not able to analyze Spanish.

> someone you’d like to kill but don’t because you’d miss them too much
Regarding German, I guesss there are a few mistakes (möchten, töten, würden), am I wrong?
I guess you are cheating a bit as you translated "them" which is a false word with the singular meaning of "him/her".
Would Germans use "ihnen" for him/her"?

Why do you use the plural in German?

MurielB a écrit:Why do you use the plurial in German?

What is "ihnen"?

In German the formal address  is the same as the third person plural pronoun Sie while in Spanish it is the third person singular pronoun usted. I was confused and I should write more in German which is such a difficult language !

what about

jemanden Sie möchten  töten, aber Sie töten nicht, weil Sie ihnen zu viel vermissen würde.