are you hungry I hope you are hungry for
knowledge God that wink would come out
better I thought I'd have a sexy wink
it's just we have something in my eye
so let's learn some food idioms
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improve their English skills today we
are talking about some super common food
idioms now when I was preparing for this
lesson there were so so many food idioms
to choose from but these ones are the
ones that I heard again and again and
again so they're very very common you
can hear them everywhere and it's fun
because who doesn't like to talk about
food yeah exactly everyone likes to talk
about food now I'm gonna do my
disclaimer that I do for every idiom
video that I make you can use idioms at
any time you can use these idioms at
anytime but just keep in mind that
idioms are a little bit more informal
don't use them on job applications or
any kind of formal English context so
keep that in mind and come on let's have
some fun with food idioms the first one
number one is bread and butter know one
of my favourite food combinations
I'm going to say that a lot in this
video because I kind of love all food
especially good food you know like good
bread and good butter
well bread and butter means somebody's
main source of income
it just means how somebody makes their
money their main source of income for
example for Western I teaching is our
bread and butter working in the factory
is his bread and butter
number two cool as a cucumber I love
this one because cucumbers are among my
favorite vegetables and I am always cool
as a cucumber no I'm not because
somebody who's cool as a cucumber is
calm and relaxed and I am known to be a
little stressed sometimes so I always
tell myself you wanna be cool as a
cucumber and it works like half the time
but that's what it means very calm and
relaxed she remained cool as a cucumber
in this stressful situation number three
not my cup of tea
and this means it's just something that
you are not interested in or something
that you just don't like naturally I
love tea Oh
maybe I should back in now this is my
cup of tea
and it's huge as you can see it's as big
as my face and I love tea so having tea
is my cup of tea but that makes sense
I'm just gonna I'm sorry that's
confusing I'll give you another example
hold on I need to have my tea going to
bed after midnight is not my cup of tea
number four in a nutshell and in a
nutshell means in the fewest possible
words so if you can imagine a little
nutshell it's very very small I'm
imagining like a little pistachio
they're very very small so in a nutshell
just means very little saying something
in as few words as you can what happened
at the meeting tell me in a nutshell
number five to put all your eggs in one
basket this is a piece of advice which
means that you shouldn't concentrate all
of your efforts and resources in one
area because that means that you could
lose everything and it could refer to
anything from feelings to to money to
hopes and dreams and things like that
so don't put all of your eggs in one
basket when planning your investments
it's unwise to put all of your eggs in
one basket number six spice things up
notice how I said that this one gets me
happy because I love spices of course I
told you at the food but to spice things
up means to change things change your
boring routine into something more
exciting to change things up this
expression is commonly found when we're
talking about relationships and I mean
romantic relationships maybe sometimes
you want to spice things up and you want
to do something different like go on a
vacation or do something crazy with your
loved one
so to spice things up means to make
things a little bit more exciting and
different than you normally do they
spice things up by taking a romantic
getaway
number seven bring home and the bacon
now I'm not a huge fan of bacon and I
know a lot of people are going to be
like what you want are you crazy why
don't you like big right I don't really
like it but I'm a huge fan of this idiom
to bring home the bacon and doesn't
refer to actual bacon but instead to
material success like money bring money
make money that is really what it means
bring home the bacon bring home the
money make money that's what it's about
I don't know why I got so excited I
don't even really like bacon that much
we both bring home the bacon
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number eight is a lemon and I have a
story about this one when I was younger
I didn't really know what a lemon was
supposed to be and I kept hearing car
commercials and they kept talking about
you won't get a lemon I just kept
wondering what is going on why would I
want a lemon why would I buy a lemon at
the car dealer it was very confusing
until I found out later that a lemon is
something that doesn't work very well
usually we talk about lemons when we
refer to machines or cars so a car that
just doesn't work very well it's just
called a lemon I don't really hear it
about people like we don't say oh that
person's a lemon it's mostly about
things that don't work you do not want
to buy a lemon
oh no it's clear that he bought a lemon
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number nine spill the beans now this
means to reveal secret information but
you don't just reveal it you kind of do
it in discreetly or by mistake that's
like when you're spilling something it's
not usually intentional so it's not
something that you want to do to spill
the beans just like you don't want to
spill beans you don't want that you get
a mess Shh don't spill the beans it's a
secret and number 10 our final one for
today is cheesy now you're probably
thinking cheese is good right who
doesn't love cheese cheese is great so
cheesy must be even better but it's not
it actually doesn't have a good
connotation something cheesy is usually
inferior or cheap or of low quality now
cheesy can be used to describe many
things from feelings to people to
objects so you can have a cheesy smile
which is not good or you can have a
cheesy outfit which is also not good or
may
you can have or say a cheesy pick-up
line which is really really not good
hey you know what would look good on you
me are you tired
no why because you've been running
through my mind all day you know it's
dangerous for you to be here in the
frozen food section because you could
melt all this stuff so even though we
love cheese we do not want to be cheesy
I've said this word so much that now I
really really really want some cheese
those pajamas are so cheesy okay so now
that you've learned all of these ten new
beautiful fabulous food idioms I want
you to use them so please please please
write a sentence in the comment using
one of these wonderful 10-foot idioms
that we learned today and if you want to
choose more than one go crazy choose two
or three
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this lesson and that now you will spice
things up and use some of these idioms
in your everyday conversations thanks
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