Is this a rude word in French as well?

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@DrMarkH

So, in light of the above, Is there a French equivalent for ‘thinking outside the box’ that isn’t a literal translation?

A literal translation wouldn’t mean anything to us. Réfléchir de façon innovante et créative, maybe.

[captainendeavour]

@David_Spardo

was called ‘Our Souls At Night’.

The account exec at the agency failed to point out to the copywriter and art director that their enormous billboard would raise a laugh amongst Anglophones.

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There’s a decorating business in Bergerac called ‘le vieux pouf’, I did tell him it was sniggerworthy and why.

[David_Spardo]

Hilariously my usually reliable translator offers firstly the correct word in English, ie a certain item of furniture but then says that it is also English slang meaning ‘tart’.

Really? Not the way I have always understood it.

BTW, regarding Our Souls At Night, I understand that Netflix declined to alter it because they are an American company and American pronunciation does not fit the objection.

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@David_Spardo

but then says that it is also English slang meaning ‘tart’.

Ah yes, mixup, une pouffe or une pouffiasse is a tart, it’s more derogatory than tart though.

[Griffin36]

@vero

it’s more derogatory than tart though.

A flan or a strudel even

[Stella]

snap… I thought… flan… or pasty even

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Or indeed sharp or acid