Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!clyde.concordia.ca!ganymede!bussiere From: bussiere@DMI.USherb.CA (Luc Bussieres) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: French experience needed Message-ID: <1990Oct24.131007.10184@DMI.USherb.CA> Date: 24 Oct 90 13:10:07 GMT References: <9010232039.AA25554@ftp.com> Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec Lines: 18 >>Does anyone know what the following phrase translates to? >>..but as they say in French ca me fait une belle jambe. >>Thanks for any help. >> -Nancy > >I think a literal translation is something like "that I make myself a >beautiful leg". I am not sure what the colloquialism means. > >Bruce A more correct literal translation would be "That make me a beautiful leg". The meaning is "we really don't care about it" -- Luc Bussieres ---- Analyste - Dep. de Mathematiques et Informatique Universite de Sherbrooke Internet : bussiere@dmi.usherb.ca Tel: (819) 821-7981