Come On

Hi everyone on the blog, it’s Yang Li here again. Thank you for your quick response to my questions — I enjoyed reading them very much.

It’s very encouraging to see that some of you were actually using some of the idioms I introduced in your message. Very good! The more you use them the better you will remember.

Well. Today’s topic is food and food idioms. We all know that the Chinese like to greet each other, if it is around meal time, by saying, ‘have you eaten yet? ‘ It shows how important food is in our lives.

In the English language food-related words and idioms play a very important part too, therefore understanding them is a crucial step in improving your listening and speaking.

Now let’s start with the easiest: honeymoon which comes from an old Germanic custom that required the newly-married couple to drink diluted honey during their first month of life together

You may have heard of the saying the apple of his (or her) eye. For example, Amy is the apple of her father’s eye. Being only children, I guess, all of you feel that way, don’t you?

Well, if you are in high spirits and look very lively then people will say that you are full of beans

By the way do you know how to download BBC programmes to your computer? Oh, you may reply by saying that’s as easy as pie which means it’s dead easy.

There are a lot of good things and good qualities associated with food idioms but the one I like best is the salt of the earth. What does it mean? It refers to the best people in every sense.

Well, talking about food, I guess this weekend a lot of people in the UK will over indulge in chocolate and Easter eggs as well as hot cross buns –all traditional Easter foods.

If you would like to learn more about Easter, my colleague John has just written a piece for Take Away English. Click the link to read and to listen.

Are you doing anything special this weekend? 

All the best,
Yang Li

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