tomber dans les pommes

Tomber dans les pommes [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

This French idiomatic expression means ‘To faint/lose consciousness/pass out‘. Its literal meaning is ‘to fall in the apples‘. Listen to an application of this idiom: [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

‘Marie était si fatiguée qu’elle est tombée dans les pommes.’ (Marie [...]