French expressions for having sex you won't find in your dictionary

The French language is famous for being the language of love and it's also well known for its vast array of colourful idioms and expressions. So it's no surprise the two are often combined. We've found 15 of the best French "sexpressions".

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"Faire des pirouettes sur le nombril": – Literally it means "making pirouettes around the belly button" and is a rather nice sounding and apparently inoffensive idiom for a bit of "how‘s yer father’s" or jiggy jiggy (that’s having sex, just in case you aren’t familiar with either of those terms).

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