teacher horse transcript 070727, Languages, English, Learning, bbc, BBC Radio Learning, words in the news, the ...
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
BBC Learning English
The Teacher
Horse idioms
In this episode,
The Teacher
introduces you to three idiomatic phrases connected with horses.
1.
To eat like a horse
2.
Straight from the horse's mouth
3.
To flog a dead horse
Hello, I’m a very interesting and intelligent man.
And this is Fred, who, as you may have noticed, is a horse. Today Fred and I are going to be
helping you to improve your English.
I bet you’ve never been taught by a horse before.
Hungry, isn’t he? In fact, he eats all the time. He eats like a horse – of course he does – he
is
a
horse.
In English, if someone eats a lot we can say ‘he eats like a horse’.
To eat like a horse
. To eat a lot.
[
Neighing and other horsy noises
.]
.
What's that you say Fred? Ah, just that silly noise horses make.
Anyway, I heard it
straight from the horse’s mouth
.
We use this idiom when we've got some information directly from the person responsible for
it. For example: my boss is going to fire me. Yes, it’s true. I heard it straight from the horse’s
mouth.
It means my boss told me directly. I didn’t hear it from anyone else.
Sad news, I’m afraid… Fred’s died.
Which means there's no point in trying to get him work any more.
How do we make a horse work? Yes, that's right, by hitting it, or as we say, ‘flogging it’.
Our next horse idiom: ‘
to
flog a dead horse’
. Which as you can see is completely pointless.
The Teacher
© BBC Learning English
Page 1 of 2
bbclearningenglish.com/radio/specials/
1554_videoenglish_2/
‘To flog a dead horse’. This means to waste effort on something that we have no chance of
succeeding at.
I sometimes feel like I’m flogging a dead horse when I’m teaching. My students, they never
seem to learn… I don't quite understand what the problem is…..very frustrating…
[
Horse noises
]
The Teacher
© BBC Learning English
Page 2 of 2
bbclearningenglish.com/radio/specials/
1554_videoenglish_2/
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]