Une douche ?cossaise - interesting French expression
http://www.expressio.fr/expressions/une-douche-ecossaise.php
You have to read French to understand it, but it's basically the idea of having a shower that's both hot and cold, heightening the effects of both, and it's used in a dramatic or metaphorical sense, like a horror scene that has some black humor in it to make it seem even more horrible, or a love relationship that has strife in it, or in cooking when you encounter two flavors that oppose but bring out each other.
posted at 12:01 pm
on Nov. 19, 2008
