comme les doigts de la main in French

IPA: /kɔm le dwa d(ə) la mɛ̃/ Forms: comme les deux doigts de la main [alternative], comme les cinq doigts de la main [alternative] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: Literally, “like the fingers of the hand”. Etymology templates: {{m-g|like the fingers of the hand}} “like the fingers of the hand”, {{lit|like the fingers of the hand}} Literally, “like the fingers of the hand” Head templates: {{fr-phrase}} comme les doigts de la main

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "like the fingers of the hand"
      },
      "expansion": "“like the fingers of the hand”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "like the fingers of the hand"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “like the fingers of the hand”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “like the fingers of the hand”.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "comme les deux doigts de la main",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "comme les cinq doigts de la main",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "comme les doigts de la main",
      "name": "fr-phrase"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French similes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "inseparable, thick as thieves",
          "text": "unis comme les doigts de la main",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "like two peas in a pod (very close)"
      ],
      "id": "en-comme_les_doigts_de_la_main-fr-phrase-D6kwnOOV",
      "links": [
        [
          "like two peas in a pod",
          "like two peas in a pod"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) like two peas in a pod (very close)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɔm le dwa d(ə) la mɛ̃/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "comme les doigts de la main"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "like the fingers of the hand"
      },
      "expansion": "“like the fingers of the hand”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "like the fingers of the hand"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “like the fingers of the hand”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “like the fingers of the hand”.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "comme les deux doigts de la main",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "comme les cinq doigts de la main",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "comme les doigts de la main",
      "name": "fr-phrase"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French multiword terms",
        "French phrases",
        "French similes",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "inseparable, thick as thieves",
          "text": "unis comme les doigts de la main",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "like two peas in a pod (very close)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "like two peas in a pod",
          "like two peas in a pod"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) like two peas in a pod (very close)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɔm le dwa d(ə) la mɛ̃/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "comme les doigts de la main"
}

Download raw JSONL data for comme les doigts de la main meaning in French (1.3kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (89ebc88 and e74c913). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"comme les doigts de la main" meaning in French

Phrase