What an exhibitionist!
Working in France some years ago, I had an English colleague who was paid by a well-to-do French couple to have dinner with them once a week. The reason was so that they could practise their English and my friend got to practise her French, too. One evening, the couple enquired what her boyfriend did for a living. As he organised trade exhibitions, she replied Il est exhibitioniste. She wondered why the silence was long and stony, and only realised much later that she had, in fact, said 'He's a flasher'!
Editor's note: Just goes to show you can't always be 'flash' with your French. Not all words that look the same in English and French mean the same thing! The word for exhibition in French is l'exposition and the word for an exhibitor is un exposant.
Sent by: Steve
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