Hello, dear friends! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for joining me for this new episode of the Authentic French podcast. I am very very happy that you decided to take the time to listen to me today and to discover a new French idiomatic expression. And today, we are going to study together "sans queue ni tête", the expression "sans queue ni tête".
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That being said, let's get back to our expression of the day "without head or tail". As usual, we will first look together, study together, the meaning of the different words that make up this russia whatsapp number data expression, and then, we will see the expression as such, the expression "without head or tail".
So the word "without" is used to denote the absence of something. It's simply the opposite of the word "with." "Without" is the opposite of the word "with" and it's used to denote the absence of something.
A tail is the part of the body of some animals that extends at their end. For example, we say that a dog wags its tail when it is happy. So a dog has a tail, a cat has a tail, and many other animals like a lion and a tiger also have a tail.
The word "nor" is a conjunction that coordinates two elements in a negative sentence. For example, if you want to say that someone is not fat and is not thin, you would not say "he is not fat and he is not thin", you would say "he is neither fat nor thin". So we use "nor" for that.
And the word "head" is the upper extremity of the human body. Here, I'm going to type in it at home. This is where our skull is, so the bone that houses the brain etc. This is also where our eyes, our nose, our mouth are. This is our head.
So what could this expression "without head or tail" mean? The origin is unknown, but we can easily imagine what its meaning is, because any logical story, if we take any story and we want this story to have a meaning, to be logical, well it has a beginning and an end.