Hello everyone I’m Ria and in today’s lesson we’ll talk about some of the funny idioms
that I have come across. Maybe you’ll find it very very interesting as well. The first
idiom that we’ll talk about is, when pigs fly. You might hear this a lot, because I
know in some of the television programs or sometimes when you talk to your friends this
idiom definitely comes about, when pigs fly, what does it mean? Do pigs actually fly? No
they don’t, it’s a very very funny thought. A big plump pig flying out somewhere, so when
pigs fly means, something that will never happen. Given a situation like, for example,
you are talking to your best friend and lets just put it up in a sentence, if you say that,
Oh!so you hope to become the winner of the beauty pageant, when pigs fly, so you very
well know that your friend will never be the winner of the beauty pageant. In the second
situation you might say, you are hoping for a date with Justin Berber, when pigs fly.
So this is in sarcasm actually, you’re quoting an incident that will never ever happen. Going
on the second idiom, cats got your tongue, now this is a funny way of saying things.
Can you ever imagine a cat holding on to your tongue? It does sound funny, right? This stepped
in the middle ages when witches were being feared. This was the time when people used
to imagine that witches might come along and at that point of time, if a witch comes and
you see a witch, just make sure you don’t report the sighting. The cat of the witch
would hold your tongue. I’m kind of imagining how that would happen. So I this situation,
if you want to use this idiom, for example, I’ll give you a very fresh example, if you
walk into a kitchen and at the kitchen counter, you are seeing your plump cousin sitting very
very oddly suspicious and when you open the fridge, you have half of the custard pie missing.
Now the first thing that you could say is what happened to the custard pie?And if he
or she is oddly suspicious, you could always ask, why are you not answering? Cat got your
tongue. So this is for somebody who is oddly suspicious, means silent. If somebody is silent
and is not answering to your question that means cat got his tongue. Now if I think about
years back. In this situation, I was the person sitting at the counter, feeling oddly suspicious.
My mom used to say, what actually happened to the custard pie, cat got your tongue? Alright
move on to third one, Bobs your uncle. Who is bob and why are you calling him my uncle?
This is a very funny idiom, this is to describe that everything is alright or they you go,
everything is alright or there you go, everything is fine again. For example, if somebody asks
you for the address of a certain destination and the person might answer, so you walk up
till the corner of the PA street and turn to your left and walk towards Godden street,
bobs uncle you are there. Yes that is a very funny way of saying something like that, but
that is how this was used more in Brittan, using this idiom, bobs your uncle, means there
you go or if you are making a special recipe, say add a hint of ginger and two cloves of
garlic and probably bit more spices and bobs your uncle, your soups done. That is another
way of using that idiom. Now van gogh is music, van gogh is for music. Now I heard, hope you
know that van gogh was an artist. If for example, I’ll tell you the meaning of this idiom
later. Let me give you a situation, if you are playing with a guitar and all of a sudden,
one of your cheekiest friends stands up and says, Wow! Bravo that was amazing music. Please
don’t be fooled and if he says, my god!!Ria, you have got van gogh’s ear for music. That
is actually sarcasm. This idiom means that you are stone deaf. That’s right you are
stone deaf, actually van gogh was an artist, who was deaf by in one ear, if somebody says,
Wow! You’ve got van gogh’s ear for music are actually sarcastic. They actually mean
that you have no taste of music that is a very sarcastic idiom, right? You can use that
for some of your friends, just making fun of your friends. Now let’s go to the last
one, Pardon my French. This sentence again, I will give you the meaning later. If you
consider this sentence like monzer, could you look at that monzer, now do you know what
I think about him? I think that he is a beep, beep, beep, son of a beep. The only French
word in this statement was monzer. The other words were not French particularly, in fact
pardon my French means, informal apology for swear words. I don’t know, why are we describing swear words as French? I hope it
is not mean, but this is how the idiom goes and I have actually heard of people using
it . So putting it in another sentence, you would say, that girl is very cheeky; she needs
a kick in the beep. The beep is the swear word and I could always add by saying, please
pardon my French. So that is how we will use this idiom, pardon my French, is by using
a string of swear words and then you can you know always add an informal apology by saying,
please pardon my French. Well, that’s all from me today. I hope that you enjoyed the
lesson and mind you, please do mind you’re French, Italian, Spanish, all the other words,
etc, etc, etc, till then I’ll see you. Keep safe and adios, amigos. Take care.