Meaning of les quatre cent coups in French

Bennie 2022-04-21 09:02:06

I asked my French classmate Anthony and he explained it this way:

Salut Jin Hui


FAIRE (DO the) 'les quatre cents coup' means that you have made all the possible criminal action like stole a bank or a museum in your life
so you are an expert or another possible means is that when you were young you do all the possible laugh and delirium with your friends .
More generally 'les quatre cents coup' means you've doing all the possible thing for a given behavior, And i'm sorry but i dont know the Paris's street and configuration but you can take a map

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Antony

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