Hello, dear friends! Welcome to this new episode of the Authentic French podcast and I am very, very happy that you are coming to discover with me today the meaning of a French idiomatic expression which is "mettre le pied à l'étrier". Very beautiful expression. And its meaning will have absolutely no more secrets for you in just 10 minutes.
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And today, as I was telling you, we are going to talk about the expression "to put one's foot in the stirrup". So we start, as usual, with the meaning of the words.
The verb "to put" has several meanings, but we use it to say that we place or put something somewhere. I have a pen in my hand, right now. If I put it on the desk, well I take it, I put it down, I place it on the desk. I put the pen on the desk.
The foot is a part of the body that is located at the end of the leg and we use it to walk. The foot is what is between the ankle and the ground. We have our toes at the end of our feet. So it is this part of the body, the feet.