"Deja Vu" gets used a lot.

"Deja Vu" gets used a lot.

I think you'll find that should be: pretentieux, me?

mon ami, that's what I mean. Once "swingeing" is habitually bolted onto "cuts" by lazy reporters it becomes a cliche. I was just pointing out (re the OP) that this is more jarring to the ear when the word or term happens to be alien, foreign or esoteric.
When England next face a penalty shoot out, how ridiculous will it be to hear Alan Shearer (for example) ask which player will "step up to the plate" - a redundant metaphor when you have a spot to step up to - because he's locked into that expression by the thoughtless repetition of the phrase?

It's fillay, not fillet.

...someone picked up on that. I wonder if we're about the same age? I'm 32, and that advert was a playground joke for years after the event.

I think it's because you typed "c'est soir" rather than "ce soir", gauntlet. At the risk of being incredibly patronising, "c'est soir" means "it is evening", hence the Captain's ups. (Please, please, please forgive me if you knew that and I'm just being incredibly dense here...)

And camisole is sexier than vest...
*edit* this is a reply to the underwear/ lingerie post

I do apologise, how terribly gauche of me. Picking you up on a minor point of grammar after an offer like that was a faux pas of the premier cru.

It's the equivalent of you saying "Fancy a shag, big boy?" and me replying "Oh, so you're saying I'm fat, are you?"

For some odd reason, when we borrow French we either balls up the grammar or get the meaning wrong. A "fracas", for example, isn't a "barney" or "rumble"; it's a "row", "din" or "racket" (à grand fracas means "at full belt/whack", i.e. "turned up to 11").

Frenchified English also often ends up in a kind of endless self-referential loop. More than one dictionary defines "blasé" as "nonchalant", which isn't a fat lot of use if your French isn't up to snuff.

But the odd thing is that it's not just us; the Spanish tend to get French wrong too. A fracaso isn't about loudness or even scrappy aggression - it means "flop" or "failure". (But then you think of our pat phrase "resounding failure", which brings us right back to the loud noises again.)

or the motto for something or a bit of poetry that's often the route into usage. I think the more interesting ones are "cul de sac" which don't appear in french much like R.S.V.P I believe.