# What is Boaty McBoatface in French?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 6, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-boaty-mcboatface-in-french/976097 "2022-12-06T16:24:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-boaty-mcboatface-in-french/976097/17 "2022-12-08T18:11:37Z")

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Thank you. (And a belated thanks to @Little_Nemo as well). I think you understood my question better than I did, that I’m looking for the idiomatic translation, similar to a recent thread [Is there a German equivalent to the phrase “teach your grandmother to suck eggs”?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-german-equivalent-to-the-phrase-teach-your-grandmother-to-suck-eggs/972397)

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