hi welcome back
today we're going to be looking at some
idioms related to food and we've got
lots of lovely things in store for you
today
we've got idioms to do with the actual
eating of the food
after you've eaten
a few things loosely connected with food
but then special treat at the end
because we always have something sweet
at the end don't we
not if you're my son and going to forest
school you don't anyway at the end we're
going to have some shakespeare quotes
about
food and see what the great bard himself
had to say about food
okay our first one are we ready
we've got a pencil are we listening
to have a lot on one's plate
so
here's my great medieval plate
and i've got meat and i've got
vegetables and i've got
i don't know let's have some fish on
there too
now this
is metaphorical
and it means that i have a lot to do
so all these things on my plate are
things that i need to do
so you might say to someone
um who's having a very busy day gosh
you've got a lot on your plate today
haven't you
to keep something under wraps
now
i don't know if you've ever
gone to a table
and you're like hmm i wonder what it is
because the plates you've got the food
and then over the food there's some
maybe tin foil and you can't see
what you're going to be eating the food
has been kept
under wraps
so
generally outside of this context
if something is kept under wraps it
means that it's a secret
it's only going to be
revealed
at the chosen
moment
kept under wraps kept secret
to bite
the bullet
this relates to
another video i've done on um phrasal
verbs to do with weapons and things but
you can check that out another time
to bite the bullet
bullet you put in the gun
if you bite the bullet then you are
going
okay
let's go and do this then you're like
you're kind of like taking the
punishment and you're like okay
i can deal with this to bite the bullets
it's like okay come on then
to step up to the plate
here we have to imagine the world's most
enormous plate yep
this is a plate that would
fill a giant it's so big
now if we step up to the plate we're
going yeah
i can eat all of that food i am not
scared of this huge plate of food
stepping up to the plate means to accept
the challenge
it's crunch time
crunch
a sound word an automatic
onomatopoeic word it means to do with
sound
because crunch is the noise that we make
when you crunch into a sandwich or
something crispy
what it means is it's the
moment of
ning
yeah it's the decisive moment
um
i wonder if you can tell the dates that
i recorded this because
on saturday it's going to be crunch time
for the england rugby team about to play
in the world cup final
crunch time
the important decisive moment
a bitter
a bitter means like kind of sour like a
lemon
pill like
medicine
a bitter pill to swallow
now
swallows when it goes down into your
tummy yeah
pills are meant to make you better yeah
if we have some medicine it's meant to
make you better but if it's if it's a
bitter pill then it doesn't taste very
nice so
it makes us better but it's not a nice
way of
making us better
so typically we would say that if we
hear a bit of bad news if something a
bit
um
upsetting happens you just say yeah it's
a bit of a bitter pill to swallow that
one but i'll be okay it's a bit like
what doesn't uh
kill us makes us stronger it's that kind
of idea we're gonna get stronger from
this
okay so we've consumed our meal
um
and we're
feeling quite full now
gut gut is the stomach
what's your gut
huh what's that mean um
it refers to gut instinct
there's an idea that you you feel
um ideas right down here in the pit of
your stomach
so some people
feel
fear right down here like oh i'm so
scared and they feel it here in their
tummy
so your gut instinct is like your real
uh most
attuned um instinct yep it's not kind of
up here in the head it's like what you
really really
feel about things
what's your gut it means what do you
think what what's your what's your
honest answer
my gut yeah
my stomach my gut tells me that
it's going to be a long day but a
productive day
my gut instinct is that
it is probably going to rain later
okay
now
here's my belt
um
if i have had some people when they've
had a really big meal actually
um undo like their top button because
they feel so full
um
belt tightening
is
when you're you know you tighten your
belt when your
waistline is going to get smaller
so if you say we need to do some belt
tightening here it means we're going to
be doing a little bit less
eating
and what it really means is that we're
going to be going into a period of time
where we're not going to be
spending much money
okay if you tighten your belt
you're spending less
eating less
to scale something back
if you imagine
kitchen scales yeah we're measuring the
flour
uh we've got the flour here the weight
here it's normally the other way around
isn't it yeah we've got the flour here
and the weight here if we're scaling it
back then we're we're using a little bit
less
to scale a project back means we put
less into it
like less flour into the cake
okay the actual food
so
brownies you know like a chocolate sort
of cake biscuity thing um
everyone likes brownies brownie points
are when you
um win favor with someone
um
oh you've got some brownie points there
great answer
yeah it means when someone has earned
something good it's kind of
like a game
to compare apples to oranges
um
you know what don't worry too much about
this because we don't use that one very
often so i'm going to rub that off
only going to teach you the stuff you
really need to know
um okay a cash cow
now i've got a friend who runs a band
called the cash cows great ban do check
them out now
a cash cow is a project that
nets you lots of money
like you set it up
and it makes money and it doesn't
require a lot of work to keep that
that idea generating money
a dog eat dog world
dogs eating dogs that's not a very nice
image is it
um
so if we've got a world where dogs are
eating dogs then we are living in a
vicious and cruel world
which is what this phrase means
to pull one's weight
now if you do a pull-up you're pulling
up
your weight
but the idea here is that you're sort of
pulling your weight
through life it means you're
you're like supporting yourself but if
you pull your weight
in a group context it means you are
contributing
your what you can to that group yep
contributing what you should contribute
um
so
the the idea here we've got heat and
we've got cold
heat is associated with passion and sort
of
anger and fieriness
and cold is like
calm down everything be calm so if you
throw
cold water over something
you're just going okay calm down
we're not going to do that now we're
just going to stop and we're going to
wait
okay
it's time to show you some shakespeare
quotes about food i always enjoy reading
shakespeare because
he has a wonderful sense of humor
which you might notice in these
quotes here
this is a absolutely classic insult
truly
thou art damned like an ill-roasted egg
so just uh some old english to explain
for you
thou means you
and art
means are you are damned like
damnation is like the end of the world
you're gonna it's gonna be terrible for
you forever and ever
like
so it's a simile like an ill
roasted
egg
okay so
i know we don't normally roast eggs it
makes it even worse that the egg has
been roast
um so what can we tell here about what
shakespeare thinks about food
well it needs to be
cooked properly yep the poor egg
deserves at least to be
poached or scrambled or
whatever
in exactly the right way to make it a
delicious egg not a kind of
a sort of thing stuck to the bottom of
an oven
um i know they didn't have ovens then
okay next one
tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own
fingers
uh so abbreviation for it is an ill
meaning um
not not really right kind of uh well it
could be unwell as well
there's an ill cook that cannot
lick
his own fingers because when we cook you
know we want to get involved in the food
and taste it
if
the cook does not want to do that it
shows that the food is disgusting and
therefore that the cook is not doing a
good job
so
you know he's all about
enjoying it
he hath eaten me out of house and home
do you want to have a go at saying that
he
hath
eaten me out of house and home
so we don't normally use the the he hath
bit because that's old english but we
very much still use this phrase to eat
someone out of house and home
typically we might think of teenagers
coming back home and eating all of the
contents of a fridge
so if you eat someone out of house and
home there is no more food in the house
and the home is the same thing yep all
of the food has gone
um there's a lovely story called the
tiger that came to tea
by by
judy kerr julia kerr um it's like a book
written in the 1960s for children and
the tiger that comes to tea eats all of
the food in the house the tiger eats
them out of house and home
and then finally from 12th night
if music be the food of love
play on
that's probably the most well-known
quotation um out of the four
and it's a metaphor
to briefly explain it
we have
music
and
love
is being compared to
food
so
if we don't eat then we don't survive
yep so food
gives us
life in the same way that
music
encourages
love
so he's talking to the musicians here
play on keep playing
keep studying
um do have a go at the quiz now thank
you for watching
and i will see you very soon