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English Idioms – Food idioms


00:00:03today I’m just going to do a short video

00:00:06on idiomatic expressions involving

00:00:08eating habits idioms are sentences which

00:00:12do not take on their literal meaning so

00:00:16my first example sentence I could eat a

00:00:18horse doesn’t actually mean you will eat

00:00:21a whole horse it just means that you

00:00:23feel very very hungry so I’m so hungry I

00:00:27could eat a horse

00:00:28just means you know you are very hungry

00:00:30you would like to eat

00:00:42my next sentence I eat like a pig it

00:00:47just means that you eat a lot of food

00:00:50it’s just an eating habit so if you see

00:00:53pigs eat they consume a lot they have

00:00:56their troughs and they just drone on num

00:00:58num they eat a whole lot of food so I

00:01:01eat like a pig it means you just eat a

00:01:04lot of food and finally my final

00:01:19sentence my eyes are bigger than my

00:01:21stomach

00:01:22it just means when you are so hungry

00:01:24that you could eat a horse sometimes you

00:01:27look in the menu and you order hamburger

00:01:30chips or I might have steak onion rings

00:01:33and then sometimes you ordered too much

00:01:36food when the food actually arrives you

00:01:39feel not as hungry as you thought you

00:01:41were so my eyes are bigger than my

00:01:44stomach or my eyes are bigger than my

00:01:46belly it just means you’ve ordered too

00:01:48much food and you cannot eat all of it

00:02:20so the three idiomatic expressions

00:02:24involved in eating habits today I could

00:02:27eat a horse

00:02:28it means you feel very hungry I eat like

00:02:31a pig

00:02:31it means you eat a lot and finally my

00:02:35eyes are bigger than my stomach it just

00:02:37means you’ve ordered too much food and

00:02:40you cannot finish that’s today’s lesson

00:02:43over thank you very much