Name: IDIOMS ENGLISH SPEAKING PRACTICE WITH 9 IDIOMS RELATING TO VEGETABLES RACHEL S ENGLISH
Uploaded: 2018-12-21T06:08:19.000Z
Duration: 7 min 13 s
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Adverbs of degree

In this video, we're going to go over 
idioms relating to vegetables.

This is a follow-up video to the video we 
did last week on vegetable vocabulary.

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Two peas in the pod. This means two 
people that get along very, very well.

And our son, Stoney, and his little best 
buddy Elias are two peas in a pod when they're together.

We went to the zoo with them recently and the kids are just running around having a great time together.

Yeah whenever we tell him that we're 
going to go see Elias,

all he does is say: "Elias! Elias! Elias!" until we get there.

When something mushrooms, this means 
it gets much bigger.

You can think of a mushroom stem, and 
then the cap of the mushroom is much bigger.

Do you have an example of how you can use the verb mushroom in a sentence?

We were watching one of our recent guilty pleasures, the TV show about home renovations, and they

and it looked pretty simple, and I open up 
the wall and they found that beehive

inside the wall and all these bees shot out.

So it look like a little project just moving a wall but the project mushroomed,

became much bigger because they had to get rid of the bees.

You could also use the word 'balloon' as a 
verb in exactly the same way.

When something unexpectedly gets much bigger.

The phrase 'to spill the beans' this means to tell a secret.

So if you have an important secret, you want to entrust it to somebody that you know will not spill the beans.

I had a friend recently tell me she was pregnant, but she wasn't telling everybody yet.

She said: You're not going to spill the beans, are you? I said: No. My lips are sealed.

My lips are sealed, of course, means I won't tell anybody.

It means they're good at keeping a secret.

This is somebody who is lazy, who 
spends a lot of time on the couch,

watching TV, and maybe eating potato chips.

I am 35 weeks pregnant and there just hits a certain point in the day where I have no energy,

and I just lay down on the couch, I have people bring me things as need, I am definitely a couch potato right now.

So if a potato is really hot, `you can't really, you don't want to touch it, you want to throw it up in the air.

Idiomatically, it means a topic that is very controversial,

and you might not want to touch it because there's such strong opinions on either side of the topic.

Yeah and an example would be social security, which is part of our social welfare safety net in the US,

and politicians don't want to touch it because it benefits older Americans who vote in high numbers,

and who have contributed to that system 
across their entire working life.

And so any threat of decreasing the benefits for Social Security is a political non-starter.

It's a hot potato. 
Nobody wants to touch that.

Even know the system, kind of is really in trouble.

And the way that it's structured is going to be really problematic, still, nobody wants to touch it.

In our podcast, where we were doing food idioms,

I talked about small peanuts ,and it has 
the exact same meaning.

It's... It means not important, or less important.

And I sometimes feel this way when I go 
to a YouTube event and there are other

really big YouTubers there with the really big numbers.

I feel like I'm pretty small potatoes at a place like that.

Cool as a cucumber. Have you heard this one before?

This idiom means very level-headed, very...doesn't get anxious, doesn't get stressed out.

Just really is able to take things in, do 
stuff well, stay focused.

And my example for this is my friend Justin.

So actually, in most of life, I am cool as a cucumber myself, I would say.

I sort of, I'm kind of a hothead, I have a little bit of a temper, I'm all over the place.

It's weird. I noticed that the one time I went to one of your games, I was like who is this guy.

Um, I played in college. It's always been something that I'm really competitive about.

Anyway, I'm a hothead but my buddy Justin, who I always play with, he's cool as a cucumber.

And if he sees me getting a little bit out of 
line, it'll kind of reign me in.

Wow, you used so many good phrases there.

Reign me in, you used ruffle... Ruffle his feathers, nothing can ruffle his feathers.

>> That's true.
>> And you also said you're a hothead.

So someone who's a hothead sort of has a bit of a temper is a little aggressive,

so you're a hothead only on the soccer field.

If someone 'ruffles your feathers', that 
means they bother you.

You could also say they 'get under my skin'.

So like someone who's playing really aggressively with you may be crossing the line, another idiom,

That means if you're getting a little too hot-headed, he comes over and he says: hey man, chill out, it's fine.

>> That's right.
>> Bring it back to normal.

talking about it idiom, it's so hard to describe situations without using other idioms.

'Carrot-top' this is a phrase that you might use for somebody who has red hair.

There's actually a comedian who I feel like was somewhat famous when I was growing up,

who went by the name Carrot Top. It was his stage name because he had orange hair.