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172 months ago

Anna Augustine (a guest user) asked this question:

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172 months ago

WILHELMINA TWENEBOA-KODUA   wrote:

to pick up one's spirits or to get back to normal

172 months ago

WILHELMINA TWENEBOA-KODUA   wrote:

"regaining strength", you do not lack punch

172 months ago

WILHELMINA TWENEBOA-KODUA   wrote:

You're a spirited creature.

172 months ago

WILHELMINA TWENEBOA-KODUA   wrote:

To pluck up one's spirits

My comment:

Avoir du mordant: to have spirit

172 months ago

Tóth Noémi Ilona   wrote:

one fire drives out another's burning

My comment:

It is the English saying for that

My references:

Selon une croyance populaire, le poil d'un animal qui nous a mordu, appliqué sur la plaie, aurait le don de la guérir. Cette expression signifierait donc dans un sens plus figuré qu'après s'être laissé abattre par un événement particulier, il faut se ressaisir et aller de l'avant, ne pas hésiter à se confronter à la cause de ses soucis.
http://www.linternaute.com/expression/langue-francaise/248/reprendre-du-poil-de-la-bete/
BENVOLIO
Tut man, one fire burns out another’s burning.
One pain is lessened by another’s anguish.
Turn giddy, and be helped by backward turning.
One desperate grief cures with another’s languish.
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.
Modern version, explanation:
BENVOLIO
(to ROMEO) Come on, man. You can put out one fire by starting another. A new pain will make the one you already have seem less. If you make yourself dizzy, you can cure yourself by spinning back around in the opposite direction. A new grief will put the old one out of your mind. Make yourself lovesick by gazing at some new girl, and your old lovesickness will be cured.
source:
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/page_30.html

172 months ago

Carole Beilin   wrote:

"reprendre du poil de la bête"= to perk up again

My comment:

"vous avez du mordant", du mordant= biting sarcasm (for example in a conversation: induce some biting sarcasm ....)

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