2021-02-03
19 分钟Hello there, this is Harry, and welcome back to my podcast, where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the english language so you can improve your conversational skills and your business English, and even where you're trying to pass ielts or one of the other exams in the preparation.
So we look at expressions, phrasal verbs, idioms, and all sorts of other aspects, and of course pronunciation, which we have been looking at recently.
This particular podcast, we're going to look at idioms concerning fruit, and I got that idea from actually one of my students who asked me to explain one particular idiom, and I'll mention that when we come across it, and I thought, why not put together ten idioms connected to fruit?
So I've picked some fruits for this particular podcast, and if you can think of some more, well, of course, as you always do, why don't you write to me and let me know?
And of course, if you have any friends that you feel would be interested in this, give them the link and let them join in too.
As always, at the end of the podcast, I'll give you my contact details, should you wish to contact me.
Okay, well, let's get cracking, and let's look at these fruits, and these are idioms, as I said, connected with fruit, or fruit idioms, okay, so I'm going to read them out to you, and then I'll go through them and give you some examples, as I always do.
Okay, now the first one is the one that one of my students asked me to explain, a second bite of the cherry.
Second bite of the cherry, the apple of your eye.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, low hanging fruit to go, bananas.
Comparing apples and oranges, I don't give a fig, a bad apple, sour grapes, and finally a plum job.
Okay, so let's explain them.
The first one, to have a second bite of the cherry.
Well, what that means is you get a second chance or a second opportunity.
So perhaps you have some business deal, and it didn't go the way you thought it would go, but something happens and you get invited back to make a second presentation, and you can say to your colleagues, well, at least we got a second bite of the cherry, perhaps we will do better this time.
So if the first time wasn't successful, the fact that you got an invitation the second time means you get a second bite of the cherry, a second opportunity, a second chance to impress.
Okay, so second bite of the cherry, another chance, okay, another chance to prove yourself.
It could also mean in your personal life for example, if somebody gets married and the marriage for some reason doesn't work out, and then after a few years, you meet somebody else and you feel it's time to settle down again, somebody might say, well, at least he or she has a second bite of the cherry.
Perhaps this one will be a little more successful than the first one.
Okay, good.