5 fun and common Italian idioms with food 🍺🥚🍞(subs)
Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel!
Today, I have a fun video for you because, together, we are going to look at
5 interesting idiomatic expressions
that are to do with food.
So, these idiomatic expressions
contain a food,
so, we associate them with food or with people
or with a situation. So, are you ready to learn these
new idiomatic expressions?
I hope you are and I also hope that this is new information, because otherwise
it's useless. If you already know these expressions,
this video might not be very useful to you, however,
let's have fun and do it anyway!
Let's look at these idiomatic expressions together:
'To be a piece of bread,'
'To go full beer,'
'To remain as an artichoke,' 'to be as full as an egg,'
'To have ricotta hands.'
Let's look at the first expression,
'to be a piece of bread.'
"To be a piece of bread" means to be a good person,
to be a kind person,
helpful to others, to be as good as bread. Bread is good, it is at the foundation of our diet
and so it's necessary,
so if a person is a piece of bread
that means that they are a really good person, that benefits society. The second expression is
'To go full beer'
'To go full beer' means to go very quickly, for example, to drive very fast,
to run very fast.
The origin of this expression
is not certain, however it could be that the origin comes
from 'to search'
In Ancient Rome when making horses run
very quickly, with chariots in races, they gave horses beer to make them run faster.
We don't know if this is
the truth or a myth, but it's an interesting thing to tell your friends.
Then the third expression is
'to remain as an artichoke.'
"To remain as an artichoke" means to not
react in a situation,
so when something happens, you should react, but you don't, so you stay there
like an artichoke,
motionless, without doing anything, without saying anything.
Next, 'to be as full as an egg.'
Usually this idiomatic expression is used after a meal, after lunch,
or after dinner you can say "I am as full as an egg,"
that is to say I have eaten too much,
I cannot eat anymore, I am full, (like an egg).
The last idiomatic expression for today is "to have ricotta hands."
"To have ricotta hands," means
to break or to drop something from your hands. I'm holding a book, I drop it:
'I have ricotta hands.' I have keys in my hand, I drop them: 'I have ricotta hands.' I have a glass in my hand,
it breaks because I slip on the ground: 'I have ricotta hands.' So
whatever you have in your hands is in danger because it could fall to the ground or it could break.
That is all for today.
I hope that these expressions are useful and I hope that you will use them with your Italian friends!
So you make a wonderful impression.
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