14 ENGLISH IDIOMS SAYINGS from food drink

In this lesson I ll introduce you to 14 different English idioms using metaphors from food and drink. Idioms are words or phrases that mean something you might not expect from the words normal meaning. For example, if something is fishy, it means that it is suspicious. I will teach you the meaning of which side your bread is buttered, nice as pie, gravy train, not my cup of tea, crying over spilt milk, and more. Native English speakers use these expressions regularly in conversation. So to get your share of the cake, watch this lesson, do the quiz at , and improve your understanding of everyday informal speech TRANSCRIPT Hello. I m Gill at engVid, and today s lesson is on idioms and sayings which are based on references to food and drink. Okay So, these are sayings that are sort of metaphorical, meaning they re not literally true, but they mean something in a different kind of context. So, you ll see what I mean when we look at th