What does “Avoir du pain sur la planche” mean?
Avoir du pain sur la planche
Word for word
To have bread on the board
What it really means
To have a lot of work ahead of you. It is the classic phrase of someone looking at the to-do list and sighing.
How we say it in English
To have one's work cut out
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