Lingua Flowing
French idioms

What does “Être fauché comme les blés” mean?

FrenchWork and moneyInformal

Être fauché comme les blés

Word for word

To be mown like the wheat

What it really means

To be completely out of money. It is the emphatic version of «fauché», French slang for broke.

How we say it in English

To be skint

Want to see this idiom used in a sentence, and where it comes from?

Create a free account to see “Être fauché comme les blés” in a real sentence (with audio), where it comes from, and to share the card. No card required.

Create a free account