Log in. Install the app. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. What really makes you tick? Thread starter Chris Start date Oct 31, Chris Member France - French. Hi, What does this phrase mean? Thanks a lot for your support Chris. I'm not sure about this, but "to tick" seems to be related to heart beat.
So "What really makes you tick" probably means litterally "Qu'est-ce qui fait battre votre coeur", in a figurative way. Silvia Senior Member Italy. Make someone tick idiom I can't figure out what makes him tick.
He's an unusual person. From Merriam Webster: to tick: to operate as a functioning mechanism. Click to expand So, what is the meaning of "What really makes you tick"? Hi everybody, I thank you for your answers and useful explanations!!!!! Kind regards Chris. OlivierG said:. Shouldn't we say "what makes the world go es round? Chris said:. Qu'est-ce qui te fait vibrer? C'est quoi qui t'emballe vraiment? I'd like to add that it's not just asking "what turns you on?
What are his beliefs? Why does he react the way he does? What motivates him? I agree with Catani. Somewhere along the way in this conversation it got off-track into a different meaning entirely.
In other words, what are the beliefs, thoughts, emotional make-up, principles, background, etc. Why do you do what you do? Kelly B said:. Senior Member Bretagne, France. Catani said:. Basically, what pushes him over the edge? What makes you tick? I mean, what is your inspiration?
What is it that pokes, prods and nudges you and forces you to try to make something of yourself? What's that little switch that makes you want to go the extra mile in whatever you are doing? Catani may have a point, but is the question really that deep?
Nicomon said:. JamesM said:. We would say: "Man I really don't know what makes him tick. Do you have a way of speaking about the mind in French as if it were a little machine, or clockwork, or a mill turning or wheels spinning? I wish I was familiar with more French phrases. It's hard for me to imagine that there is not some common way to refer to the mind as if it were a machine.
Catani's "rouages" seems the closest so far. My French is horrible, please excuse me. James, I think "fonctionner" could work for machines too. Je voudrais bien comprendre comment il fonctionne? Now your rouages suggestion is very very good too, I really mean it, but it would be difficult to use when asking someone "what makes you tick". I also think rouages is more refined and formal vocabulary than tick is in English.
In my personnel placement world examples follow the expression is interpreted to mean what are you passionate about? Hence "allume" which clearly wasn't the right answer But I'm guessing "Qu'est-ce qui vous passionne? Ot does it depend on context? What do talk show hosts want to know, when they ask their guests what makes them tick? And what do the guests answer? Do they always talk values, beliefs and philosophy? I think not. If the latter, then to render onto Cesar Figure out what really makes you tick - are you money driven, are you community focused, whatever.
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