Tim B
Newly Enlightened
I often download and watch foreign films with English subtitles from the internet. I was recently watching two French films when in each film I heard an old saying I haven't heard since my childhood when my mother and grandmother used to occasionally speak to each other in French. I was wondering what its exact syntax and meaning were. I have only heard it said verbally and have never seen it in writing. It sounds like. "say nay parta kwaw" if you spell it phonetically. I was trying to figure out exactly what they were saying. Could it be, "C'est ne part de quoi" or "ce n'est part de quoi?" Then subtitles in one film said, "It's nothing" and in the other they said, "That's bullsh--." Is anyone familiar with this saying and can you tell me the exact syntax in French?