Learn food idioms in English - Idioms about food with meaning

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hello everyone and welcome back to the english  danny channel i'm teacher john and i'm here to  
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help you become great at learning english today's  video is about idioms and more specifically idioms  
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about food or at least idioms that use food to  talk about or describe something so in this video  
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you're going to learn five different idioms  that use food all right our first idiom today is  
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take it with a grain of salt and this idiom is  very common we native speakers use this idiom  
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a lot in their their normal daily  speech and it means to not completely  
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believe something that someone tells  you okay so it's like being skeptical  
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if you know what that word means  so let's use it in a sentence  
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so for example some people claim that some food  is very unhealthy or healthy for you but i usually  
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take it with a grain of salt and this means that  i mean i'm just skeptical about their advice and  
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maybe i don't trust what they're saying 100 our  second idiom for today is to have a lot on one's  
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plate okay so you you can say to have a lot on my  plate or to have a lot on your plate and it means  
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having many things to do to the point of almost  being or feeling overwhelmed okay very busy  
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so let's use it in a sentence for example i'm  sorry but i can't commit to helping you right now  
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because i have a lot on my plate and  our third idiom for today is cherry pick  
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cherry pick means to choose only the best or  the most suitable of something from a group  
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of people or things all right so and this  kind of means it means to to be selective  
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to choose only the things that you want  so let's use it in a sentence for example  
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it's dishonest to cherry-pick information  when telling a story it's best to be truthful  
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and tell everything and our fourth idiom in this  video is food for thought and food for thought is  
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it's something that is it's worth thinking  seriously about right so food for thought  
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it's very uh serious maybe a big decision okay  or just something that's very very interesting  
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but you want to think about it a lot so for  example my friend gave me some food for thought  
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when he told me about a business opportunity and  our fifth and final idiom in this video is in a  
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nutshell in a nutshell is a is a phrase it's an  idiom that we use in the beginning of a sentence  
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to summarize something all right so and it  means very briefly giving only the main points  
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of an idea or an argument or something that  you want to say all right so let's let's use  
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it in a sentence here for example i've played  many video games and played over 1 000 hours  
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on some of them in a nutshell i love video  games all right everyone thank you so much  
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