Pardon my high school French

[Frank Logullo]

Took it from memory. Altavista gave this:
Non tous les ânes ont quatre jambes
Frank

 

[Madison MacLard]

Are you trying to say that you are a donkey?

 

[Dominic Richens]

Are you trying to say that you are a donkey?

"Not all asses have four legs" - one of the more literal French expressions.

The one I never really understood was "It's not worth the four legs of a
duck"?!

 

[Madison MacLard]

Then the correct translation would be:
Pas tous les ânes ont quatre jambes.
Otherwise you would be saying the opposite:
No, ALL asses have four legs.

 

[Dominic Richens]

"Non-tous" is an Argôt form of "Pas tous"; you won't find that in your
Bescherelle though!

 

[Frank Logullo]

"Non-tous" is an Argôt form of "Pas tous"; you won't find that in your
Bescherelle though!

High school French was 50 years ago.
I also studied Latin.
It dawns on me that we may be discussing a dead language in the making
Frank