English Idioms – Tea

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Learn and practice English Idioms that came from tea

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Hello, I’m a very interesting and intelligent man.  And today this tea and I will teach you some idioms in English. I mean you’ve never been told by some tea before?  I love tea.  Of course I do / I am an English man.  What’s this?  It isn’t my cup of tea!  In English, if there is something we don’t like very much, for example, a sport or type of music, we can say “It’s not my cup of tea!”  Please turn that down, jazz really isn’t my cup of tea.

 

And now time for a geography lesson:  China is an extremely large country.  Can you imagine how much tea there is in China… a LOT!  Now, lucky you, today, I’m going to do anything at all that you ask…  so come one…  well, I wouldn’t do THAT, but all the tea in China!  In English, if there is something we will never do, we can say “I wouldn’t do it for all the tea in China”. It means there is nothing; nothing even something worth great deal that could persuade you.  I can’t believe you ask me to do THAT! 

 

Tea is hot, well / a pot from iced tea, and where do we make the tea.  That’s right in a tea pot.  So, since tea is very hot, what do you think is a good material for tea pot?  Porcelain? yes!  Glass? Yes!  Metal?  Ok!  Chocolate? NO!  A chocolate teapot would be completely useless. In English, if something is completely useless, we can say, “it’s as good as a chocolate teapot!”  What’s that you say?  You say these lessons are as good as a chocolate teapot? I don’t know, I work so hard for you and no one seems to understand me, very sadly….  

 

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