Just saw the expression 'San fairy Anne ' (sic)

[Claybury]

On another thread. Is this serious or is it a genuine error ?

[ExitPursuedByABear]

Don't understand.

[ghostyslovesheep]

say what now?????

[WhereDoAllTheCalculatorsGo]

Context?

[ChippyMinton]

LOL
I heard someone say 'it tipped me off the iceberg' the other day!

[seaoflove]

What the hell is that supposed to be?

[bloodygorgeous]

Quoi?

[songbird]

Que?

[BlackeyedSusan]

notts way of saying it i think.

[songbird]

Saying what?

[MagratsHair]

:) my mum used to say it sarcastically. She knew the correct French but it was a phrase from her childhood that refused to die :)

& 'silver plate' for please

[GerundTheBehemoth]

Ca ne fait rien...

[treaclesoda]

I don't get it.

I might, however, be being very dim, and when someone explains what it is, I will go 'aahhh. of course...'

[GerundTheBehemoth]

And there's 'messy buckets' for merci beaucoup :D

[SlightlyJadedJack]

Nope, can't work it out.

[JuniperTisane]

Aww. Je ne fait rien.

[MagratsHair]

Ce ne fait rien - tis French for 'its nothing'.

So if someone says thank you for holding the door open for them, you would reply by saying its nothing.

[bloodygorgeous]

'murky buckets' Gerund surely!

[treaclesoda]

Oh, cross posted with Gerund. I get it now !

Aaah, of course...

[FrancesNiadova]

S.F.A. ?

[Iamcuriouslyskanky]

I thought it was "sans faire rien" ie without doing anything, no effort

[WhereDoAllTheCalculatorsGo]

Apparently it's a thing linky

[BaffledSomeMore]

That phrase has been around for donkeys' years. Might have been a WW1 thing.

[KnittedJimmyChoos]

how interesting was a fav of my mums too.

[fluffiphlox]

Sans faire rien, je crois.

Somebody told me once that they wanted a 'ballpoint' figure!

The perils of using a term you don't understand. We've probably all done it.

[Faffette]

Sorry can't help it: "Ça ne fait rien" is the correct spelling.