We do drink our tea out of mugs much of the time – so ‘mug’, M-U-G. Most of the time, we don’t actually use teacups with saucers in the UK. If you have afternoon tea – that’s a real English, old fashioned tradition – the sort of thing that you could imagine perhaps Queen Victoria, or even our current Queen Elizabeth having tea. So a saucer – it’s a bit like a plate, but smaller. So a teacup would have a little handle and tend to come with a saucer – so that’s the matching part, that goes underneath, that you rest your teacup on – your saucer. So a teacup? It’s more of an old fashioned thing, a delicate version of a cup to drink your tea from. A cup of tea is something we have quite a lot in the UK. And a teacup? Well, if you think of that wonderful English tradition of drinking tea in the afternoon. ©️ Adept English 2019Īnyway, you get the idea – a storm is a band of bad weather, coming over the country. Used to help explain English grammar she, he and they. So maybe it missed us.Ī photograph of a man holding a baby you cannot tell the gender of the baby. Just this weekend, we had Storm Miguel, though I must say, it looks quite sunny through my window at the moment and I don’t remember anything dramatic. And we get storms all the time, because we’re next to the Atlantic Ocean, and so our storms tend to come in from the west. So a storm means a weather front – a bank of cloud and rain and usually wind as well, is called a storm. And of course, this is something which British people like to do – and there’s quite a lot to talk about because our weather here in the UK, is quite unpredictable, it’s variable. Vocabulary first of all? Well, the word ‘storm’, S-T-O-R-M is used in the context of talking about the weather. I’ve picked this phrase, because like most English idioms, if you just take its literal meaning, you would wonder ‘What on earth does that mean?!’ There’s another idiom ‘What on earth?’ Vocabulary for Storm in a Teacup So today, let’s talk about the meaning of the phrase ‘ A storm in a teacup’’. Less likely to be something you see in a formal context. It means a phrase or an expression that’s used in spoken English, which is fairly informal, used with family and friends. How about a funny English idiom today? Let me pick an idiom which is a bit colloquial. We’ve also got our Course One: Activate your Listening, so that you can start to tackle English conversation and slightly more complicated vocabulary. We also have our Most Common 500 English Words – so if you find the podcasts quite difficult, this is a good course, to just bring your level up to the podcasts. You can sign up for our free course, The Seven Rules of Adept English and learn how to use the courses and the podcasts to give you the best advantage. If you’re really serious about your English language learning and you’d like to progress even faster, then we have a number of things of interest on our website for you. Listening to Adept English will help you grow an ‘English area, an English part of your bran’, so that you stop translating from English into your own language and you can become more fluent. If you would like to improve your spoken English language, then you’re in the right place. Hi there and welcome to this short podcast from Adept English. Transcript: English Idioms A Storm In A Teacup You can still download and listen to this lesson as part of one of our podcast bundles. Listen To The Audio Lesson Now The mp3 audio and pdf transcript for this lesson is now part of the Adept English back catalogue. So it was of no surprise to hear a news reporter on the BBC news talking about the English idiom “A storm in a teacup”. As you can imagine there are arguments about how we should leave are many, and when they happen, they can be loud and angry, especially in parliament between MPs (Members of parliament). So in the UK right now we are swapping prime ministers, the top job in UK government is tough right now as the 67 million people who live in Britain are arguing over how we should leave our countries current membership of the European Union. We often hear something or say something in conversation and think “Now that is something a new English language learner would not understand…” The English being spoken right now by native British English speakers. If you follow our podcasts and listen regularly, then you will know we focus our lessons on everyday English. Something you will probably never come across. When we talk about English idioms, you might think this is a little used or useless part of your English language learning.
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