0:00Hi everyone, hope you're doing well.
0:03Welcome to this video where we're going to see a French expression in a few minutes.
0:10I hope you are comfortable.
0:12Don't forget that you can activate French or English subtitles if you need them.
0:19Today, we're going to see a funny expression.
0:23It is funny for someone who does not speak French, whose language is not French.
0:31This expression is "avoir un poil dans la main".
0:36A hair is what you have on your arms, on your legs.
0:41We have a hair here in the hand.
0:45This expression simply means that we are lazy.
0:50We are really, really, really lazy. We are lazy for a girl.
0:56We are a little soft, we are not very ambitious.
1:02In English, we say "to be work shy".
1:06It's a bit like being shy about work, you don't like it too much.
1:11This expression is quite old, it dates from the 19th century, so it was used to
1:17talk about people who were lazy, who didn't like to work too much.
1:22In those days, there was a lot of manual labor.
1:26So little use was made of one's hands to work that a hair can grow in it.
1:32In reality, I don't think it's really possible for hair to grow in the palm of
1:36your hand or for a hair to grow in the palm of your hand.
1:40Here are two scenarios to help you better understand this expression.
1:46Cynthia really has a hair in her hand.
1:49She stays in her room all day playing
1:52video games and only goes out to eat the meals her mother makes.
1:58She's really lazy. Here is another context.
2:02Peter, my colleague, really has a hair in his hand.
2:06He never does more than what is asked of him.
2:10He always does the minimum and never offers any additional ideas.
2:15He is really lazy. That's it for this little video.
2:19I hope you liked it.
2:21Don't hesitate to tell me in comments if there is an expression in your language to
2:28talk about really lazy people who don't like to work very much.
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