k&k learn french 39 -
tomber dans les pommes
If you like watching Grey's Anatomy in French (where there are people fainting left, right and centre, whether from heart attacks or because McDreamy looked at them), you'll need to know the expression we cover in show 39 : "tomber dans les pommes".
Listen to our explanation of the phrase :
Literal translation
To fall in the apples
English equivalent
To pass out
To faint
To pass out cold
French equivalent
S'evanouir
Frog's phrase
Jean-Pierre est tombé dans les pommes à cause d'une overdose de m&ms.
Translation
Jean-Pierre fainted after overdosing on m&ms.
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I guess the more technical/medical term would be
"perdre connaissance"
"Il a perdu connaissance"