this week Americans will be celebrating
Thanksgiving it's always celebrated on
the fourth Thursday of each November for
some it's a religious holiday for most
it's a family holiday for everyone it's
a day of giving thanks we like to
celebrate by eating roasted turkey so
let me share some related expressions
now the turkeys you saw in that clip
were wild turkeys they came into my
backyard the other day I'm sure that
wild turkeys don't look very appetizing
but the turkeys you find in supermarkets
do as I said on Thanksgiving Day in
every household you're sure to find a
roasted turkey on the table in fact
you'll find all kinds of food on the
table and Thanksgiving Day we have
roasted turkey with cranberry sauce or
gravy corn green beans mashed potatoes
squash corn bread pumpkin pie apple pie
and probably a few other foods I'm
forgetting right now you can imagine
that if you eat even just a little bit
of all of these foods it's enough to
make your stomach feel very full so the
first expression I want to share with
you is to be stuffed
it means you eat so much that you cannot
possibly eat anymore it's an informal
expression so if friends or family
members offer you more to eat and you're
full you can say to them thanks but I'm
stuffed the next expression I want to
share with you is to go cold turkey it
means to stop a bad habit suddenly and
completely we mostly use this expression
connected to drugs so if someone
suddenly stops taking drugs they
suddenly stop smoking or drinking we say
they go cold turkey
the last expression I want you to know
is to talk Turkey this means to talk
simply and directly now people like
politicians or businessmen sometimes
have reason to talk carefully or
secretively and not talk about the main
issue right away so if somebody suggests
let's talk Turkey it means they want to
address the most important things they
want to get to the point okay so let's
review those expressions what's the
expression to eat so much food that you
cannot eat anymore be stuffed what's the
expression
to suddenly stop a bad habit especially
a habit of taking some kind of drug go
cold turkey what's the expression to
talk simply and directly about something
especially a problem that needs to be
solved talk Turkey
exercise complete each statement with
one of the new expressions each
expression will be used only once number
one read the statement to yourself and
then I'll tell you the answer
after a half-hour of careful
conversation the one businessman
suggested they talk Turkey and make a
deal the other businessman agreed and
clearly stated how much he was willing
to pay to
once Uncle Ben made the decision to stop
drinking
he went cold turkey he hasn't had a
bottle of beer or any other alcohol in
over a year
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my friend offered me the last piece of
pie but I had to say no thanks but I'm
stuffed
I told him to you my viewers thanks for
watching and Happy Thanksgiving