hi welcome to number five of my 25
bite-sized lessons which I'm making
especially as a Christmas present for
you
so every day on the run up to christmas
i'm releasing a new bite-sized lesson
now today's lesson it's all about the
word lip so you probably know that al it
is one all these and together these are
your lips
one of them is a lip, your top lip your
bottom lip and together your lips, now
you can also call the edge of something
the lip so the edge of a cup could be
called the lip of the cup
we can also use the word lip to me back
chat or being cheeky
so if I'm back chatting you being rude
then I'm giving you lip and you can say
hey don't you give me lip
we also would describe someone giving
lip as being lips. You're very lippy
today madam. Some common phrases we use
involving the word lip are as follows
my lips are sealed this means i won't
tell anybody or I'm not saying a word
my lips are sealed usually when we're
talking about keeping a secret
please don't tell anybody up I worked my
lips are sealed to pay lip service to
this means to talk nicely about
something so i might pay lip service to
my mother because she looks beautiful
this means I'm complimenting my mother
because she looks beautiful to have a
stiff upper lip
this means to put on a brave face and be
positive it was cold and raining and I
felt miserable but I had a stiff upper
lip and got on with it if someone
punches you or you bang your lips and
your lips swell up then you would have a
fat lip
oh are you all right
only you have a fat lip is everything
okay
my brother gave me a fat lip when we
were play fighting alia two white ones
lip to bite one slit means to stop
yourself from saying something so you
might want to say something rude
maybe to your boss if they're being
particularly difficult but you know it's
not a good idea
so you bite your lip and stop yourself
from saying it so i really wanted to
tell my boss where to get off but i had
to bite my lip because I knew it
wouldn't be a good idea if someone is
tight-lipped this means that they're not
talking very much about a certain
subject so i was speaking to my family
about next summer holiday but they were
very tight-lipped about the details so
they didn't talk very much about the
detail they're keeping things secret
something maybe on your lips or on
everybody's lips
this means that everybody is talking
about something or that you're talking
about something
so if we're at a film awards ceremony
and one film is better than every other
film and everybody's talking about it we
can say this film is on everybody's lips
tonight and finally we might say
read my lips this means pay close
attention to what I am saying
read my lips I said no well I hope you
found that helpful
lots of new phrases around the word lip
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