Words and Their Stories: Food Expressions, Part Three
24 February 2011
Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. We present more expressions about food. They are from Elenir Scardueli, a listener in Brazil.
My mother always told us
there is no use crying over spilled milk.
That means you should not get angry when something bad happens and cannot be changed. People said my mother was
a good egg
. She would always help anyone in need. We never had to
walk on eggshells
around her. We did not have to be careful about what we said or did because she never got angry at us. She also told us
you have to break some eggs to make an omelet.
This means you have to do what is necessary to move forward.
My mother believed
you are what you eat.
A good diet is important for good health. She would always give us nutritious food. She liked serving us meat and potatoes for dinner.
Meat and potatoes
can also mean the most important part of something. It describes someone who likes simple things. Here is another expression about meat:
one man’s meat is another man’s poison
. In other words, one person might like something very much while another person might hate the same thing.
My father was also a good and honest person. People said he was
the salt of the earth
. He would never
pour salt on a wound,
or make someone feel worse about something that was already a painful experience. However, sometimes he told us a story that seemed bigger than life. So we had to
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