French idioms
What does “Mettre les pieds dans le plat” mean?
Mettre les pieds dans le plat
Word for word
To put one's feet in the dish
What it really means
To blunder into a delicate subject with no tact at all. It can be accidental or deliberate, to force the topic out.
How we say it in English
To put one's foot in it
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