Seminar 5: The Nuts and Bolts of Modern English 4. Topics to be discussed:
- Using idiomatic sweet food expression
- Exploring the use of food in metaphor, simile and idiom
- Using ‘food related’ phrasal verbs
- Simile from the kitchen
- People as metaphoric animal expression
- Idiomatic people expression
- Use of nationality in English
- Modern idiom from the Old West
- Using war expressions in idiomatic business language
- Don’t rock the boat and similar fixed expression
- Using idiomatic expressions to describe difficult situations