guys welcome if you haven't met me
before I'm Tom the English hipster and I
teach real natural British English what
do you think of my flags and pretty cool
right the reason why I've got them is
because today I'm going to teach you
guys ten idioms that are going to make
you sound totally British I'm talking
like Emma Watson Harry Styles if you
want to sound like them then you're in
the right place possibly the most
British idiom of all is not my cup of
tea
so if something is not your cup of tea
it means that you don't like it or it's
the kind of thing that you don't like
doing so for example you might say
swimming is not really my cup of tea
swimming is not really my cup of tea and
that just means that you don't like
doing it maybe you prefer running or
doing other things but swimming you
don't like doing it so it's not my cup
of tea we often use it in response to
the question do you like so do you like
running do you know running they are
it's not really my cup of tea and that
just means I don't like doing it so good
if something is a piece of cake it is
easy to do not a problem not difficult
at all so obviously for you guys
learning English is a piece of cake
right
okay maybe not learning English I know
it can be difficult but maybe you you
did an exam and it was enough is an easy
exam
she come out of it you tell your friend
ah that was a piece of cake and that
just means that was really easy I might
say I I passed my driving test I it was
a piece of cake it was really easy so
something is a piece of cake it's really
easy I love love love this idiom this
one is to go pear-shaped and it means
that if a plan goes pear-shaped it fails
it goes wrong it's a disaster so for
example
and maybe I planned to do a Facebook
live lesson for you guys and then
there's no Wi-Fi my phone breaks someone
calls on the phone then the Facebook
life lesson goes pear-shaped okay it
goes wrong I wasn't successful okay so
to go pear-shaped is such a great
British idiom maybe I'm planning a
weekend away with my family and then I
get sick I get ill and maybe the car
breaks down it goes pear-shaped so the
weekend went pear-shaped brilliant idiom
sounds so British see if you can use it
in a sentence in the comments below for
donkey years
this is a great phrase now for donkey's
years means a very long time it doesn't
specific time not exactly 20 years or a
hundred years or two weeks there's no
set time it just means a long time so I
could say I haven't seen you in donkey's
years and that means I haven't seen you
for a long time or I haven't been to the
gym for donkey's years I haven't been to
the gym for donkey's years and again
that just means I haven't been for a
long time again in your language what do
you say do you have a similar idiom is
it for horses years or for four counties
whatever it is let me know in the
comment below two idioms for one here
the first one across the pond
now here the pond usually it's a small
amount of water in this idiom
it means the Atlantic Ocean either side
of the Atlantic Ocean we have Britain
and we have the United States so in
Britain when we talk about across the
pond we are talking about in America in
the United States and then if you're in
the United States and they're saying
across the pond it means in Britain for
example if I was in Britain and I said
Harry Styles is really popular across
the pond that means that Harry Styles is
really popular in America
in addition we say down under to mean
Australia because I guess we think that
they're the other side of the world so
they're then down there somewhere
so if you're saying I it's really hot
down under it means it's really hot in
Australia or Harry Styles is really
popular down under
it means Harry Styles is popular in
Australia I don't know what they say for
us I put up and over
I don't know so nice idiom here cheap as
chips it just means something is really
cheap okay so opposite of expensive
cheap and so on myself I love your
jacket how much did it cost is that is
cheap as chips just means it's really
cheap
I guess because chips are quite cheap
here so it's just cheap as chips maybe
in other countries is cheaper something
else let me know in the comments below
if you have a similar phrase it's as
cheap as so cheap as I don't know
something else apples or cheap as
mangoes or whatever it might be let me
know in the comments below I'd love to
hear what your idiom is for the same
phrase so if something is really cheap
what do you say in an India mastic form
this is a fun one pardon my french or
excuse my french so if you say pardon my
french it's because you used or you are
going to use a rude word now obviously I
know you guys don't use rude words and
neither do i of course pardon my french
but that guy is a real and inside and in
selling so you can have a lot of fun
with it
but remember you know I don't use bad
language I hope you don't need to use
bad language either we can we can
communicate without using bad words this
next phrase to do a run so this means to
leave a place or a situation to avoid
something unpleasant commonly it's used
maybe to describe leaving a restaurant
without paying ok so maybe at the end of
the red
at the end you get your bill and you
just leave without paying not very cool
but this is to do a runner to avoid a
situation by leaving very quickly very
hastily is not usually very cool to do a
runner but yes I think in a restaurant
is probably the context that we do we
use it most so I've never done a runner
there we are that's the example sentence
I've never done a runner from a
restaurant means I've never left without
paying I promise I promise I love this
idiom it she feeds so itchy is that
feeling that we get maybe when a
mosquito bites us and then oh it's very
itchy you want to scratch it so that's
the ceiling it she feet but it doesn't
have the same meaning each she feeds has
a totally different meaning it means
that you want to do something different
or go somewhere different than where you
are now so often we feel it maybe and
when we are in one place and we want to
go somewhere different so for example
when I when I'm in London I love being
here but I also want to go and travel
somewhere else somewhere new go to a
beach in Thailand or go to walk around
the city of Rome or Barcelona or Venice
or something so it's that feeling of
wanting to go somewhere different or do
something different you can't do
something to save your life can't do
something to save your life this is a
great phrase really natural so if you
can't do something to save your life
it's a very exaggerated way to say that
you are rubbish at doing it you're not
very good at doing it let me give you an
example I am a terrible drawer I cannot
draw it I when I try to draw fingers and
it looks like big potatoes it's a
disaster so I would say I can't draw to
save my life I can't draw to save my
life and that just means I'm rubbish at
drawing I'm not very good at drawing
this is a great phrase
I can't do something to save my life so
another example and I can't speak French
to say in my life I learned French for
six years something like that and I'm
terrible it's embarrassing
just read digitally which I think means
I'm sorry I think so I can't speak
French to save my life just means I'm
terrible at speaking French guys have I
left any British English idioms out
which ones have I forgotten please let
me know in the comments below and you
can also teach your other EC dreamers as
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me this is Tom the English hipster
saying goodbye it's so good good cup of
tea
honestly a good cup of tea you just
makes everything all right in the world
you just feel calm relaxed all your
worries disappear so good kids
you