hi welcome to inkvid.com i'm adam
in today's video we're going to look at
idioms from the world of
food so all these idioms have some sort
of food
in them and just to review what is an
idiom
an idiom is an expression or a
collection of words
the words of which don't necessarily
mean the same as the expression
as a whole okay so for example we're
going to talk about beans but
this idiom has nothing to do with beans
so i'm going to give you 10 idioms
here are five and we're going to look at
another five in a few minutes
okay let's start with spill the beans
to spill means to drop like for example
if you have a bag of beans
and you tilt it some of them will spill
out okay we have a glass you spill some
water
so what does spill the beans means mean
it means to tell a secret okay to reveal
a secret
so some of you might know the idiom to
let the cat out of the bag
same idea to spill the beans to let out
a secret
it could also mean to just basically
reveal some
details so i went out on a date last
night and then i come to work and all my
co-workers all my guy friends they want
to know what happens so they say
come on spill the beans well how was it
last night what'd you do what
etc all these things so they want
details they want
the secret and they want me to tell them
so let out
the secrets or the details now if you're
talking about
bread and butter now everybody knows
bread you spread some butter on it very
delicious you eat that
but as an idiom what does it mean when
we say something
is my bread and butter
so if i say well that's my bread and
butter means that's my major source
right so if i'm a car dealer and i'm in
a
particular neighborhood the people who
live in that neighborhood are my bread
and butter
they're the ones who come and give me
the most business
so it could be the major source of
income or the major source of support
so some politicians they target
specifically
white working-class people or they
target
immigrants or they target any particular
demographic
group because that group is their bread
and butter
it is their major source of their
support
and in some cases their income okay
the big cheese so not what is the big
cheese but
who is the big cheese the big cheese is
the boss
okay so there's a new decision a new
policy going to come into effect in the
company
and i'm looking at i'm going like who's
idea with this was this
and my co-worker says oh that's the big
cheese he wanted it so it's got to be
done i said well it's stupid
well still the big cheese wanted it
that's how it's going to be so
the boss knows sometimes you might hear
the head
cheese same idea the head cheese means
the boss or whoever is in charge
at the place now the apple
doesn't fall far from the tree so
imagine a tree
and it has apples when the apple drops
it drops very close to the tree not very
far away from it right
essentially what this means is when we
talk about a son and a father
a son and his father so if the apple
doesn't fall far from the tree
we mean the sun is very similar
to his father it could be in looks but
usually it's more about
behavior and for some reason we use it
more about son and father than
daughter and mother so when we when
somebody says oh the apple doesn't fall
far from the tree
means that the sun is doing the same
things as his dad now
usually we talk about this in usually
negative things
so when somebody does something bad and
we say
he's just like his dad we say well the
apple doesn't fall far from the tree
he did bad things his son is doing bad
things
they're very similar in that way if you
want to remember an apple
is the fruit of the tree a child is
technically the fruit
of a couple of people right now what
does it mean to bring home the bacon
bacon little strips of pork you fry them
and put them on your
sandwich or whatever bring home the
bacon it doesn't mean bring home
pork it means bring home money or earn a
living
earn a living make a living salary so if
you're bringing home the bacon
you're bringing the money home to take
care of the family of the house
etc so there's five let's look at five
more
okay so now we have five more and we're
again we're starting with butter
now if you think about butter what is it
it's basically
rich creamy milk right it's tasty it has
a little bit of fat in it
very rich flavor so when we butter
somebody up
what are we doing are we putting butter
all over them because that's not really
good that's kind of gross actually
but we're doing the opposite we are
flattering
to flatter someone to say oh you know
you look very pretty today or
you're so smart and you're so handsome
and you're so you're so good at what you
do
when you're doing this you're buttering
somebody up you're making them greasy
so it's easier to slip something out of
them you want something from them
so you make them feel really good you
say really nice things about them
and then whatever favor you want just
kind of slides off them
much more smoothly so just butter
somebody up to flatter to praise
okay make them really feel really good
and then they're more willing to give
you what you want
okay to have your cake and eat it
too now sometimes you want two
things that conflict you want
the one side but you don't want the
other side sometimes you
get to have your cake means you get the
one thing and you get to avoid or get
the second thing as well right
so you have your cake and you get to eat
it oh my mistake here sorry
have your cake and eat it too not it
okay
so i'm trying to think so taxes let's
say you win the lottery
like in the u.s if you win a lottery you
have to pay
almost half of it depending how big it
is back to the government and taxes
so you get your cake but then half of it
is gone to the government
but in some countries you get to have
your cake and eat it too you win your
million dollars and you keep the whole
million and you don't pay any taxes
so you don't have the side and the
conflicting you get to have both of the
good
of whatever the issue is and it could be
in any different
context where that you get both things
that you want
even if they conflict with each other
okay
don't cry over spilled milk or over
spilt milk
now notice here i have e d ending or t
ending
this is sometimes a north american or a
british
thing british might spell it with a t
more americans canadians will spell with
an ed more
the meaning is the same when we're
talking about the past so don't cry over
spilled milk
so if you're eating a bowl of cereal and
your dog comes and knocks the table and
a little bit of the milk comes out
on the table so yeah you're going to be
upset no
there's no point it's already done it
can't be
undone there's no point being upset
about something you can't change
another way to say this is just let it
go
okay don't be angry or don't be upset
about things that have already happened
and that you can't
change just move on and hope it doesn't
happen again
learn a lesson maybe prevent it in the
future or avoid it in the future
now if something is not somebody's cup
of tea
so it's not my cup of tea means it's not
to my taste
when we're talking about taste right now
tastes not like flavor
i know you're thinking tea and flavor
but taste means preference
what you like what you don't like so
somebody says oh i want to introduce you
to this person
and he said oh yeah i know him he's not
really my cup of tea
he's not my type he's not the type of
person that i
choose to date or go out with right so
not my cup of tea not my preference
not to my taste and to take something
with a grain of salt so if you look at
salt very closely
they're tiny tiny little grains that's
what we call each
little piece of salt if you take
something with a grain of salt
means you don't accept it at face value
you don't accept it at face value means
you don't accept it
as it is you always have a little bit of
suspicion
so if somebody says oh this is true you
know what
maybe i don't believe you 100 i'm going
to take everything you say with a grain
of salt
so i i'll believe you 90 but that 10
i'll go check and make sure that you're
correct right so everything that you
read
on in the newspapers or watch on like
cnn or fox
tv or whatever take it all with a grain
of salt
it's not 100 the truth
okay so anytime you're suspicious of
somebody
and you're not sure he always he or she
always tells the truth
just take everything they say with a
grain of salt go do your own research
find out your own facts and then you'll
be sure of
the information that you need okay so i
hope these were pretty helpful all of
these have some sort of food
in them good to know because we talk
about food all the time
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