2020-08-30
19 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome to my English podcast, where we try to help you to get a better understanding of the english language and help to improve your conversational English.
For example, looking at some grammar points, idioms, phrases, and all sorts of aspects like that.
So in this particular podcast, we're going to take a second look at idioms connected with food.
So we've done one of those previously.
So this is the second one with some further examples because they're really quite interesting.
So I thought I'd give you another shot at these.
Okay, so as always, I'm going to read them to you and then I'll go through them, give you some examples, what they mean, and hopefully you get a much better understanding of how you might be able to use them in your day to day English.
Okay, so here we go.
Food idioms.
Okay, first one, a hot potato to upset the apple cart, cheap as chips to cut the mustard.
No use crying over spilt milk, all the tea in China, spring chicken.
Or usually we put it in the negative, no spring chicken.
And then finally, piece of cake.
A piece of cake.
Okay, so let me take them one by one and give you some examples.
As I said, first one, a hot potato.
Well, if you're baking potatoes in the oven, which is a really nice way to have your potatoes, if you're baking the potatoes and you take them out of the oven, they're really hot and you're, you can't hold them for too long because they burn your hands.
So when you're blowing on your hands or blowing on the potato, inevitably you'll, you'll drop the potato on the ground or you'll, you'll, you'll burn your hands one or the other.
So when something, when we refer to something as a hot potato, it's something that nobody wants to handle.