{"id":22000,"date":"2022-03-03T15:28:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22000"},"modified":"2022-03-03T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:30:26","slug":"fiery-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22000","title":{"rendered":"Fiery Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French idiom <strong>Il n&#8217;y a pas le feu au lac<\/strong> [il n\u203fj\u203fa pa l(\u0259) f\u00f8 o lak], or literally &#8220;There&#8217;s no fire on the lake&#8221;, is used when there is no hurry to do something. It could be translated as &#8220;What&#8217;s the big hurry?&#8221;, &#8220;What&#8217;s the rush?&#8221; or &#8220;Where&#8217;s the fire?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alohaliza\/35161350\/in\/photolist-2kkzzFJ-2kkvgqz-2kkzzPK-2kFYVdD-2kk9eDV-2kkz1FQ-CE2nTv-cgRC2L-5jNsyv-5jSHLG-dKqfC5-5jNsKp-5jNsmH-5jNrNx-5jSHzm-29WrEkf-2iSDfzE-wRrxLp-2kk8JrL-6PvmYX-4mC64Y-5Mr27q-ef3Bam-9iBfRZ-9Lq9a7-5jNrpv-47dfb-5hYkJx\" title=\"Fire Fountains\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/23\/35161350_9020f66b92_z.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Fountains\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It has been used since the mid-20th century and apparently refers to Lac L\u00e9man (Lake Geneva) in Switzerland and the inability of Swiss people to hurry even in an emergency. It is also sarcastic in suggesting that water might be on fire [<a href=\"https:\/\/allaboutfrench.com\/pas-le-feu-au-lac\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Variations on this idiom, and phrases with similar meanings, include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Il n&#8217;y a pas le feu = There&#8217;s no fire (on the lake)<\/li>\n<li>Ya pas l&#8217;feu = There&#8217;s no fire (informal pronunciation)<\/li>\n<li>Il n&#8217;y a pas de quoi paniquer = There&#8217;s no reason to panic<\/li>\n<li>Il n&#8217;y a pas de quoi fouetter un chat = That&#8217;s not a reason to whip a cat<\/li>\n<li>Rien ne presse = There&#8217;s no hurry, there&#8217;s no need to hurry<\/li>\n<li>\u00c7a ne presse pas = There&#8217;s no hurry \/ rush<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are there any interesting idioms in other languages involving fiery lakes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French idiom Il n&#8217;y a pas le feu au lac [il n\u203fj\u203fa pa l(\u0259) f\u00f8 o lak], or literally &#8220;There&#8217;s no fire on the lake&#8221;, is used when there is no hurry to do something. It could be translated as &#8220;What&#8217;s the big hurry?&#8221;, &#8220;What&#8217;s the rush?&#8221; or &#8220;Where&#8217;s the fire?&#8221;. It has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,125,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-idioms","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22000"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22011,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions\/22011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}