French Idioms and Proverbs / A Companion to Deshumbert's "Dictionary of Difficulties"

by de V. Payen-Payne

Avoir d’une chose à revendre = To have more than enough of a thing.

Revenir

*Revenons à nos moutons = But to return to our subject. (See [Mouton].)

Vous en revenez toujours là = You are always harping on that string.

Je n’en reviens pas = I cannot get over it (astonishment).

[Or, pop., “j’en suis baba.”]

N’y revenez pas = (lit.) Do not come here again; (fig.) Do not do that again.

Cela revient à dire = That amounts to saying.

Cela revient au même = That is just the same thing.