Today, I learnt the meaning of the phrase "ménage à trois". I had always thought it was synonymous with "fiasco" and have used it several times in essays. FML
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johobus28 26
As embarrassing as it was to learn the actual meaning, I have to agree with you guys. I probably should have looked up the actual meaning before using it. I can usually deduct the meaning of a word pretty well without googling it, but that evidently was not the case here. Fortunately, I never used it on major, college-acceptance essays or anything. Only minor high school assignments. I'll be sure to google a word before I use it next time! Thanks for my first FML guys
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MandieL 27
A ménage à trois (French for "household of three") is a domestic arrangement in which three people having romantic and/or sexual relations with each other occupy the same household. It is a form of polyamory.
Gaernem 17
Looks like all of those essays were a fiasco.
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Comments (71)
Tannasgh 22
Hopefully you learned it first hand
MeltedMango 8
...So why would you repeatedly use French in what I'm guessing is an English essay, especially when you don't even know what it means?
Witchylady 18
Why didn't you use a dictionary
weaponofchoice6 11
Don't know what it means, don't use it YDI
xenawpwa 4
I bet your English teacher loved you! I mean I doubt it was French class, or you would know what it meant....they have a wine called Ménage a trios, so you could play like you were talking about the wine lol
canadiangirl98 9
I'm dying to read these essays
limitles 14
Google is your friend! Use it!!!!
Miss_Loki 4
Learned*
XDJEnderman 14
this is why the urban is your best friend in these scenarios
Hildy93 21
Www.google.com That is all