Casse-tête can be roughly translated to ‘headache’ in English. There’s a game known as casse-tête chinois, ‘Chinese puzzle’, in France, described by a French online dictionary as a ‘solitary patience game’. Fun-fact: Although it's called Chinese, the very first casse-tête game was actually made in Greece in the 3rd Century, according to the dictionary l’Internaute. If you have to enter Paris by car during the strike, you can definitely say: Mais quelle situation casse-tête! Here in Le Monde Diplomtique:Face au Brexit, le casse-tête nord-irlandais -The North-Irish puzzle tormenting Brexit

Source: The Local December 17, 2019 16:18 UTC