{"id":7783,"date":"2012-10-27T11:13:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T10:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2012-10-27T11:13:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T10:13:33","slug":"to-be-in-the-perfume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7783","title":{"rendered":"To be in the perfume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I discovered that one way to say that you&#8217;re familiar with something in French is <em>\u00eatre au parfum<\/em>, or literally &#8220;to be in the perfume of&#8221;. Anyone know why perfume is involved in this expression?<\/p>\n<p>English equivalents include &#8216;to be in the know&#8217;, &#8216;to be clued up&#8217;, &#8216;to be on the ball&#8217;, &#8216;to be in the loop&#8217; &#8211; can you think of any others? <\/p>\n<p>Another way to say this in French is <em>\u00eatre au courant<\/em> (&#8216;to be in the current&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressio.fr\/expressions\/etre-au-courant.php\">Some related expressions in other languages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A related expression in French is <em>mettre au parfum<\/em> (&#8216;to put in the perfume&#8217;), which means to provide all the necessary information, to put sb in the know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I discovered that one way to say that you&#8217;re familiar with something in French is \u00eatre au parfum, or literally &#8220;to be in the perfume of&#8221;. Anyone know why perfume is involved in this expression? English equivalents include &#8216;to be in the know&#8217;, &#8216;to be clued up&#8217;, &#8216;to be on the ball&#8217;, &#8216;to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783","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=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}