2020-08-23
20 分钟Hi, this is Harry, and welcome to the podcast where we try to help you to improve your understanding of english language, to help you get a better knowledge for communication, both in personal and in a business context.
So we help you with the grammar, the understanding of different aspects of grammar, phrases, idioms and aspects like that.
And as always, I'll give you the contact details at the end of my podcast.
So, what have I got for you today?
So in this podcast, we're going to look at idioms in particular, we're going to look at idioms with a relationship to food.
Okay?
So as always, I will give you the idioms and then I'll explain exactly what they mean.
Okay, so a number of food related idioms, they're not all about food, but they're food related in terms of the words that we are using.
So the food idioms are as to butter somebody up, as easy as pie, the apple of my eye, to spill the beans, have your cake and eat it, to be in a pickle gravy train, and then finally walk on eggshells.
Or walking on eggshells.
Okay, so I'll give you an explanation and then an example as I go through them to butter somebody up.
Well, butter is what we like to use in an island.
The butter is really beautiful.
Kerrygold and all these other, and butters have got a great reputation.
So if you're like me, you like in the morning a cup of coffee and toast with a lot of hot, melting butter.
Yeah.
Okay, so when we butter somebody up, it's like spreading butter to butter somebody up is to try and soften them up to get something that you really want.
Okay, so if we are trying to persuade a parent to give us something or to do something for us, or we're trying to persuade a friend to do something that they don't want, or we want to get on their good side, we try to butter them up.
So if we butter them up with lots of compliments and saying nice things, they will obviously work out that something is happening.
And they say, are you trying to butter me up?