Sawing off the branch you are sitting on
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:50 am
Hello everyone! Thank you for joining me for this new episode of the Authentic French podcast. And what I suggest you do today is simply discover a very beautiful, a very nice French idiomatic expression, namely "sawing the branch on which you are sitting". You'll see, it's very, very interesting to know.
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So, we're going to start by looking at the russia whatsapp number data different words that make up this expression, "sawing off the branch you're sitting on."
The verb "scier" means to cut using a tool called "a saw". A saw is an object that has a metal blade. And we take this object, we put it against a piece of wood, it can be a branch, a tree trunk, a wooden board, it must be a wooden object that we are sawing, although we can also saw certain metals with a particular saw. But in any case, we put our saw, the object, against the wood and we make movements back and forth. Forward, back, forward, back, forward, back and the blade cuts the wood. We call that "scier".
A branch is the part of a tree that has leaves or fruit growing on it. The branches, they grow above and on the sides of the tree, in the middle of the tree. So we have the roots in the ground, we have the tree trunk, and on the sides of the tree, what comes to cling to the trunk, are the branches, the tree branches. And on the branches, you have fruit or leaves or both.
And "sitting" is of course a position. Here I am at my desk, I am sitting on my chair. It is a position installed on a seat, an armchair or even on the floor. It is of course opposed to standing. Here I am sitting. My behind is placed on my chair. And if I stand up, well I stand up. It is the opposite. Being seated is the opposite of standing.
I would like to appeal to members, please, before starting this episode. Many of you do so and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Many of you also write to us about this podcast that you seem to enjoy. But what really helps Français Authentique is that you rate this podcast on the application that you use. It takes a few seconds, but it allows Français Authentique to be a little more visible and to help other people. Some people follow the YouTube videos for example, but do not even know that we have a podcast with more than 500 episodes of expression and nearly 300 episodes of Marchez avec Johan, therefore of personal development.
You just go to your app that you use, whether it's the Google Play Store , the App Store , whatever, or Apple Podcast , I think, and just leave 5 stars. If you want to leave a few words, that's super nice, but the 5 stars help us a lot. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
So, we're going to start by looking at the russia whatsapp number data different words that make up this expression, "sawing off the branch you're sitting on."
The verb "scier" means to cut using a tool called "a saw". A saw is an object that has a metal blade. And we take this object, we put it against a piece of wood, it can be a branch, a tree trunk, a wooden board, it must be a wooden object that we are sawing, although we can also saw certain metals with a particular saw. But in any case, we put our saw, the object, against the wood and we make movements back and forth. Forward, back, forward, back, forward, back and the blade cuts the wood. We call that "scier".
A branch is the part of a tree that has leaves or fruit growing on it. The branches, they grow above and on the sides of the tree, in the middle of the tree. So we have the roots in the ground, we have the tree trunk, and on the sides of the tree, what comes to cling to the trunk, are the branches, the tree branches. And on the branches, you have fruit or leaves or both.
And "sitting" is of course a position. Here I am at my desk, I am sitting on my chair. It is a position installed on a seat, an armchair or even on the floor. It is of course opposed to standing. Here I am sitting. My behind is placed on my chair. And if I stand up, well I stand up. It is the opposite. Being seated is the opposite of standing.