hello everyone and welcome back to the english danny channel i'm teacher john and i'm here to
help you become great at learning english today's video is about idioms and more specifically idioms
about food or at least idioms that use food to talk about or describe something so in this video
you're going to learn five different idioms that use food all right our first idiom today is
take it with a grain of salt and this idiom is very common we native speakers use this idiom
a lot in their their normal daily speech and it means to not completely
believe something that someone tells you okay so it's like being skeptical
if you know what that word means so let's use it in a sentence
so for example some people claim that some food is very unhealthy or healthy for you but i usually
take it with a grain of salt and this means that i mean i'm just skeptical about their advice and
maybe i don't trust what they're saying 100 our second idiom for today is to have a lot on one's
plate okay so you you can say to have a lot on my plate or to have a lot on your plate and it means
having many things to do to the point of almost being or feeling overwhelmed okay very busy
so let's use it in a sentence for example i'm sorry but i can't commit to helping you right now
because i have a lot on my plate and our third idiom for today is cherry pick
cherry pick means to choose only the best or the most suitable of something from a group
of people or things all right so and this kind of means it means to to be selective
to choose only the things that you want so let's use it in a sentence for example
it's dishonest to cherry-pick information when telling a story it's best to be truthful
and tell everything and our fourth idiom in this video is food for thought and food for thought is
it's something that is it's worth thinking seriously about right so food for thought
it's very uh serious maybe a big decision okay or just something that's very very interesting
but you want to think about it a lot so for example my friend gave me some food for thought
when he told me about a business opportunity and our fifth and final idiom in this video is in a
nutshell in a nutshell is a is a phrase it's an idiom that we use in the beginning of a sentence
to summarize something all right so and it means very briefly giving only the main points
of an idea or an argument or something that you want to say all right so let's let's use
it in a sentence here for example i've played many video games and played over 1 000 hours
on some of them in a nutshell i love video games all right everyone thank you so much
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