To believe oneself to have come from Jupiter's thigh

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Hello, dear friends! Thank you for joining me for this new episode of the Français Authentique podcast. Today, it is with great pleasure that I will explain a French idiomatic expression to you. It is certainly not very widespread, that is to say that you will not hear it every day in France. On the other hand, it is always interesting to understand it, to know it, if you wish to understand all French speakers and all content in French. This expression is "to believe oneself to have come out of Jupiter's thigh".

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So, let's get to it. "To think you usa whatsapp number data came out of Jupiter's thigh", what could that possibly mean?

"To believe oneself", so the pronominal verb "to believe oneself", you know the verb "to believe", to believe oneself, it means to think something about oneself. This thing can be true or it can be false. But in any case, it is a perception that one has. "To believe oneself". If I tell you "I believe myself to be gifted for DIY", it means that I think I am gifted for DIY myself. It is true or it is false, we do not know. The fact remains that it is what I think. So, I believe myself to be gifted for DIY.

"Sorti" here is the past participle of the verb "sorti". Sortir means to leave the place where you are, the place in which you are, to go outside or to go to another place. If I leave my office, well I leave the office, I leave this room to go outside or to go to another place. There, I went out, left the office, I left the office. I was there, I am no longer there.

"The thigh" is a part of the body, it's the upper part of the leg between the hip and the knee. You take your knee, you go up and everything above the knee and below the hip, that's the thigh, that's the upper part of the leg.