Sunday Cuppa: Easter Idioms

周日杯茶:复活节习语

English Like A Native Podcast

语言学习

2025-04-20

14 分钟
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This is a special weekend episode where I teach some interesting Easter idioms.
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  • I'm sitting here with a huge freshly made steaming hot cup of tea and so I thought I would call today's episode the Sunday cuppa.

  • In fact I might call all Sunday episodes the Sunday cuppa but during today's cup of tea that I'm going to be drinking

  • while talking to you I promise I won't slurp.

  • To slurp is to make that awful noise where you suck liquid up through your lips like that.

  • It's not very nice.

  • I won't slurp today apart from that little demonstration but during today's cuppa I'm going to share with you eight useful idioms that are related to Easter

  • because Easter is coming up very very soon.

  • So the first thing that comes to mind is to spring into action.

  • To spring into action of course I thought of this because we are now firmly in the springtime.

  • The flowers are up, the buds are opening,

  • the sun more often than not is shining, I'm wearing just a vest which is nice.

  • Sometimes I've even left the house without my coat.

  • My goodness, such a change.

  • So to spring into action this means to move, to start something with energy and enthusiasm.

  • So it's like you are suddenly electrocuted and you're like ping I'm gonna go.

  • So you might say when Dexter heard the news that his wife had gone into labour

  • while he was down at the pub enjoying a pint with his mates he sprang into action.

  • Getting to the hospital in record time.

  • And actually this morning when I woke up and the sun was shining I sprang into action cleaning the house and getting things organised

  • because I felt so energised by the sun and the mild day that we were experiencing.