Lesson 1 - Idioms with Food [FREE SAMPLE - IDIOMS COURSE]
3/27/20268 min
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[background music] Hi and welcome to the Espresso English podcast where you can improve your English in just a few minutes a day. My name is Shana and I'm the teacher at Espresso English. Make sure to visit the website, espressoenglish.net where you can get online courses and e-books that will help you learn English even faster. Let's get started with today's lesson. Lesson one explanation, idioms from food. Walking on eggshells. The hard exterior part of an egg is called the shell. Eggshells are very fragile. That means it's easy to break them. If you were going to walk on eggshells, you would need to walk very carefully. So walking on eggshells means being extremely careful with your words and actions so that you don't upset or offend someone in a delicate situation. Politicians are often walking on eggshells during delicate negotiations that could easily go wrong. You could also be walking on eggshells when interacting with a person who is easily offended or who gets angry easily. The icing on the cake. Many cakes are covered with a sweet sugary paste called icing. The cake is already delicious and the icing makes it even more delicious. So the icing on the cake is an additional benefit to a situation that is already very good.