That is funny! Did you ever see a book of cartoons called 'Fractured French'? Possibly not, it came out long before you were born, but some of the jokes were very clever. Each page was a French expression or proverb, a funny mistranslation of it, and a cartoon. They illustrated the proverb 'tant pis, tant mieux' with a drawing of a very stuffy-looking old lady entering a room with a relieved smile, with the caption 'the aunt feels much better since she made a telephone call'. For those who don't speak French or who weren't around to pick up the slang of the era, 'tante' is 'aunt', 'mieux' is 'better', and 'to make a telephone call' was a polite euphemism for going to the toilet.
The expression 'tant pis, tant mieux' doesn't translate precisely into English. Sort of 'so much the better, so much the worse', 'good if you succeed, too bad if you don't'.
