You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

[jrineakter]

Hello everyone! Thank you for joining me for this new episode of the Français Authentique podcast. So today, we are going to look at a new French expression together, "on ne fait pas d'omelette sans casse des oeufs". It makes sense, you might say. Well, we are going to see in detail right after how we use this expression in French, so stay tuned.

To begin with, we can already focus on the words that make up the expression.

The first word is the third person personal pronoun "on" which replaces "we" or people in general.

Then we have the verb "to do", it is an action verb, which can ultimately mean a lot of things. Here, it means to cook, to prepare.

Then we have the word "omelette", it is a dish prepared with beaten eggs and cooked in a pan.

Then we have a second verb, the verb “to break,” which actually means to break, to put something into pieces, into pieces.

And finally, we have the word "egg". An netherlands whatsapp number data egg is an edible product that comes from the laying of a bird or a fish. But generally, when we make an omelette, we do it with bird eggs and more generally still with chicken eggs or quail eggs, or even goose eggs. Okay, I'll stop there for the list of birds, but you get the idea.

So, you must be wondering about the meaning of this expression, this expression which, I remind you, still speaks to us about eggs and omelettes. In fact, the expression dates back to the 19th century and was popularized by "Balzac". At the time, making an omelette was synonymous with breaking fragile things. Indeed, to make an omelette, we need eggs, and eggs, well, they are fragile. So the complete expression, in fact, it really served to justify an abuse, a fault, or even a crime.

o this expression has a rather negative aspect. It actually means that to obtain something or achieve a result, you have to make sacrifices. For everything, there is a price to pay in the end. In itself, it is rather logical, we are obliged to break eggs to make an omelette. We cannot protect them, preserve them. But this expression often has a pejorative meaning in the sense that we can obtain something to the detriment of someone. There is also an expression, let's say synonymous, which is "the end justifies the means".