2021-11-07
11 分钟Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome to our podcast where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the english language, help you with the vocabulary, the grammar, pronunciation, phrasal, verbs, and this week, in this particular episode, we're going to look at some idioms, and as always, if you want to contact me at the any time, I'll give you the details at the end of the podcast.
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Okay, so in this particular podcast, we're going to talk about idioms, in particular, we're going to talk about family idioms, those idioms connected with families.
As always, I'll give you the list, and then I'll go through them one by one.
So here's the kith and kin.
The apple never falls far from the tree, a chip off the old block, to run in the family, to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth, like father, like son, helicopter parent or parents, and to be in somebody's blood.
Okay, so let's give you a few examples.
Kith in kin is quite old fashioned.
What it literally means friends and family.
So Kith, friends, kin, family.
And in the olden days when somebody died, they would try to find the next of kin.
So the old fashioned way of saying who are his surviving family members, wife, brothers, sisters, whoever they may be, and when somebody died, some great family leader or king of the clan, he would be surrounded by Kith and kin, all his friends, those close to him, and the kin, the family, those that are closest to him.
Yeah, and we talk about kindred spirits.
Again, it's connected with family.
Okay, so Kith and kin, next, the apple never falls far from the tree.
Well, the literal meaning of this is that when apples fall, as they have been doing in the last few weeks, they fall straight down.
They might roll a little bit, but they don't fall too far from the tree.
So that's the literal meaning of it.
But if we're looking for the metaphorical meaning of the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, then it means that children are usually pretty similar in all respects and actions and behavior to those of their parents.
So when we want to criticize some guy or girl about something they've done or said, they say, oh, you don't have to look too far, look at the parents.