Hello dear friends and welcome to this new episode of the podcast. And today, I'm going to explain a French idiomatic expression to you. You'll see, this expression is funny. It's about "paying at a stone's throw". Maybe you've already heard it in authentic content. In any case, it's an expression that is good to know. You can even impress your friends by using it.
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So, what does this expression, "to pay turkey whatsapp number data peanuts" mean? As usual, we will first look at the meanings of the different words that make up this expression.
First of all, we have the verb "to pay". To pay means to give money to someone in exchange for a product or for a service provided. If I pay you to work with me as part of Authentic French, well I give you money in exchange for a skill or for a service. When you have an employer and an employee, we call that "a salary". But you can also pay to buy a product. I can pay Amazon to buy computer equipment for example. So to pay is to give money to someone in exchange for a product, merchandise, or even a service.
A "slingshot" is perhaps a little more complex for you, less known in any case. It is an object that is used as a weapon or as a toy. Basically, there is a handle, often made of wood, there are two branches between which we attach an elastic band. And often, it is called a slingshot because we take a pebble, a stone, it is rock, there are often some on the ground, on the ground. Often, a pebble is small; a stone is a little bigger. And we are going to take this pebble, this stone, we are going to put it on the elastic band while holding the sli