Transcript:
Hi everyone! I am Georgiana, founder of speakenglishpodcast.com. My mission is to help you to speak English fluently.
Do you want to sound more like an English native speaker?Â
Well, today youâll learn six new popular expressions in English related to food. After that, Iâll practice your speaking with a funny mini-story.
Ok. Letâs learn some new idioms:
There’s a type of food that always makes us feel better because it reminds us of our childhood. That kind of food is called COMFORT FOOD.
We eat comfort food because it comforts us. Although we tend to feel better after eating this type of food, it is not necessarily healthy food.Â
Example:Â
âAfter a tiring day, itâs so wonderful to cook some comfort food and read a good book.â
And who doesnât like eating cake? I just canât say no to a piece of cake. And when something is extremely easy to do we say itâs a PIECE OF CAKE.Â
However, this expression doesnât have anything to do with food.
Thereâs another similar expression. Instead of âpiece of cake,â you could say âAS EASY AS PIE.â
Examples:
âI thought the test would be difficult, but it was a piece of cake.â
âCompared to learning Japanese, learning English was as easy as pie.â
But you know what? Sadly, there are times when YOU CANâT HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO.
Yeah! You guessed, right! This is another expression đ
When someone says âyou canât have your cake and eat it tooâ they mean that you can’t have two incompatible things at the same time.
In other words, the cake cannot be eaten and saved for later.
Example:
âJames works too hard to pay for that luxurious house. The irony here is that he never has any time to stay at home and enjoy it. I guess he can’t have his cake and eat it too.â
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