10 English Idioms with Food

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Adam

Hi, I think you are wrong, in the sentence is “Have your cake and eat it too”. The sentence you’re writing on the board. Thanks

AmyLe

Let’s butter up Adam so that we get more videos?

FattySpaggeti

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Adam

Hi Adam,
Thx for this lesson it is great. I extend my items in my English box.
I have question to question 4, I feel there should be put negative modal verb “should not” before idiom “take with a grain of salt”
Thx in advance for your explaining this.
Greeting from blooming spring’s Poland

Grzegorz Bak

Hi Grzegorz,

The negative is inherent (part of) the expression. Take with a grain of salt means don’t believe completely. So adding the should not would mean believe completely.

Does this help?

Adam

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Sergiy333

Thanks Adam,

great and excellent lesson.

Let´s transplant all this lovely and common idioms into our everyday English.

adrijana

Tasty, flavourful butter, with a little fat in it. Adam, spill the beans, what’s the recipe?

tomek11

I don’t think butter is flavourful. Maybe it’s tasty for someone but not flavourful.
For me adjective flavourful means “have a lot of diffent flavours”. But I may be wrong.

marcin95

I see why you would think that! But “flavourful” is also used to mean “has a strong flavour”. For example, these news articles mention flavourful flour and herbs. So butter can also be flavourful!

engVid Moderator

It’s good to know. Thanks :)
I have always thought “rich in flavour” or “flovoursome” mean “has a strong flavour”.

marcin95

Nice job, Moderator! We didn’t have to wait for Adam to resolve the matter :)

tomek11

Good job indeed :)
You too Tomek :)

Adam

Hi Adam, nice lesson, as usual! Could we say “bread & butter” also referring to a person? Like best friend or “twin soul”?

Emmegi

Hi Emmegi,

Not in English. But you bring up a good point; people often translate expressions from their language or culture into English and are surprised when English speakers don’t know it.
Be careful :)
As for your expression, we have “kindred spirit”

Adam

Ops! But I learned a new expression today! Kindred spirit, it sounds well! Thanks Adam.

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eug8080

Hello Adam,
Thanks for this lesson.
I must put the negative modal verb “should not” before the expression “take with a grain of salt”
Thanks to megsuto hand a lot and I would like to know more about these very good topics.

ramiro313619

Hi Ramiro,

The negative is inherent (part of) the expression. Take with a grain of salt means don’t believe completely. So adding the should not would mean believe completely. (not not believe completely = believe completely)

Does this help?

Adam

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Unfortunately, I do not teach directly these days. I do have my other channel (writetotop.com) for help with the writing section of the TOEFL and IELTS. Perhaps this can help a bit.

Good luck with your preparation. :)

Adam

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estheladoelman

Hi Estheladoelman,

The differences are parts of speech:
die – verb
dead – adjective
death – noun
dying – gerund or participle

Does this help?

Adam

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Vitao1800

It´s hard to me take with a gran of salt, it´s not clear

naiomy

Hi Naiomy,

Take with a grain of salt means that you should not automatically believe the information you read or hear. The salt is like in food; it’s meant to add flavour, so you will add some doubt to make sure you are not being misled.

Does this help?

Adam

so easy Thank you