Name: 7 Common English Proverbs: “spill the beans”, “bring home the bacon”, “too many cooks...”
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Hey, guys, it's Ronnie here, and I'm in today with a great lesson on cooking.

What we're here to do today is teach you some proverbs about cooking.

And you may ask yourself, what's a proverb?

And Ronnie, why are you teaching us proverbs?

And you said that idioms are kind of useless to learn.

Idioms are usually one or two words or three words, and they have a meaning.

Proverbs, on the other hand, can be a full sentence, and

they actually have, like a moral story or some kind of teaching behind them.

As I am a teacher, I'm here to teach you other cool things about learning proverbs is probably you have the exact same proverb in your language.

And of course, the killer in English, your pronunciation.

I know that this is a very popular proverb around the world.

It's usually made from bones, not of humans.

This means that if you have too many people trying to do one thing, making soup, no, spoiled.

So if you have too many people trying to do one task, it's not going to work out because someone's going to be the leader and someone's going to cry.

So what this proverb means is everyone should get a delegated task.

You following here has nothing to do with soup, really.

Because I'm like, come on, come on, come on, come on.

A watched pot never boils means if you are waiting for something for a long time, it seems like it's going to take longer if you distract yourself and do something different.

For example, you're waiting for your friend to show up at your house and hey, come on.

By the time the soup's ready, your friend will be there.

It's actually, it looks like watched, but with the ed here, we're going to sound like watched.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

In the way that we use this means if something's too hard for you or there's too much pressure, forget it, just go.

So if you're having, oh my God, I can't do this.

Take a break, go for a run, go for a cycle, Come back to it.

Don't put yourself out for unnecessary things.

So if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

If something's too hard or stressful, take a break.

The cool thing about these proverbs too is we shorten them kind of in slang.

So we say it's like the pot calling the kettle black.

So there's a pot and the kettle, they're both black.

It's basically saying that you are being a hypocrite.

And hypocrite means I say something like, you shouldn't smoke.

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7 Common English Proverbs: “spill the beans”, “bring home the bacon”, “too many cooks...”

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