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Here's the french one:

    - ça va ?
    - ça va, ça va... ça va toi ?
    - ça va :)
The `toi` is optional but there's a bit leg pulling involved.


I particularly appreciate that this is literally "Does it go? It goes. Does it go for you? It goes."

Native speakers don't generally look inside idioms the way non-native speakers do. English is full of equally odd-looking constructions. Still, this amuses me all the time in French.




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