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

[Claybury]

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

Don't understand.

say what now?????

Context?

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

What the hell is that supposed to be?

Quoi?

Que?

notts way of saying it i think.

Saying what?

:) 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

Ca ne fait rien...

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...'

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

Nope, can't work it out.

Aww. Je ne fait rien.

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.

'murky buckets' Gerund surely!

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

Aaah, of course...

S.F.A. ?

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

Apparently it's a thing linky

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

how interesting was a fav of my mums too.

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.

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