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We are going to show you all the things you ever wanted to know about the basic French idiom “Tourne la page”.
More precisely, this includes a detailed guide of what it is and how you can use it in a dialogue with an audio example. Not to mention the cool informations we added like slow pronunciation audio, synonym, dialogue example and more!
Oh and if you want, you will find our others idioms tutorials on this page and the ultimate list of all our French words guides on this page. C’est parti ! (Let’s go!)
The literal meaning is:
This is a sentence French people are using as an advice to someone for moving on to something else.
To be more precise, it’s encouraging someone to forgive or stop thinking about a tough situation like a breakup, divorce, failure, etc. But you can also use it more casually after a misunderstanding to ask someone to forget about what just happened.
Scenario 1: your best friend went through a breakup and he/she is still suffering from it, you can advise him/her for example: “Tourne la page, c’est du passé” (Move on, it’s the past)
Scenario 2: you made a funny mistake while talking. Everybody laughed, then the conversation moved to another topic. But someone is still making fun of it and it annoys you, use for example: “C’est bon, tourne la page, on a compris” (Ok we got it, move on).
In both scenarios, just using “Tourne la page” without anything else is fine too.
