18 اصطلاح کاربردی برای اسپیکینگ آیلتس_موضوع:Restaurant Food
18 اصطلاح کاربردی برای اسپیکینگ آیلتس_موضوع:Restaurant Food
18 اصطلاح کاربردی برای اسپیکینگ آیلتس_موضوع:Restaurant Food
Idioms that describe the food:
1. To be full up:
To eat to the point that you can no longer eat anymore or that you eat so much you do not feel hungry. Don’t order any more food, I have been full up already.
2. To grab a bite to eat:
To eat something quickly (when you’re in a rush). I was in a hurry this morning, so I grabbed a bite to eat and ran out for a meeting.
3. The main meal:
The meal at which you eat the most food is called the main meal. Lunch is usually our main meal, except on Sundays.
4. Stoke up with something:
To eat a lot of a particular food or to fill oneself with food in order to avoid feeling hungry or weak later. As she had an important meeting all day long, she stoked up with a lot of chicken soup and bread for breakfast.
5. To wine and dine:
To entertain with food, eat sumptuously or to treat someone with wine and dinner, it’s typically to impress him/her. They wined and dined in one of the most luxurious restaurants in Paris after marriage.
6. Shovel sth into your mouth (= shovel down):
To put large quantities of food into your mouth very quickly. He was sitting in front of the TV shovelling a pizza into his mouth
7. To be dying of hunger:
An exaggerated way of saying you are hungry. Let’s find something to eat, I am dying of hunger because of studying extensively for four hours.
8.To be starving hungry:
An exaggerated way of saying you are very hungry. I’m starving hungry now, Let’s go grab something to eat.
9.To eat a balanced diet:
To eat the correct types and amounts of food or to eat the type of food which fulfils a person’s nutritional needs and it will help a person to avoid eating any junk food or the food with no nutritional value. In order to lose weight, we should try to eat a balanced diet with less sugar intake.
10. To eat like a horse:
To eat a lot >< eat like a bird. Eating like a horse means eating a lot of food. Eating like a horse in a party may be considered to be extremely impolite.
11. To have a sweet tooth:
To enjoy sugary food. To have craving or strong fondness for sweet food. I’m really afraid of gaining weight quickly and contracting diabetes because I have a sweet tooth.
12. home-cooked food:
Food cooked at home from individual ingredients or food cooked using raw and fresh ingredients which are made personally. Although home-cooked food is usually not as delicious as the one served in restaurants, it is much more beneficial to your health.
13. To make your mouth water:
To make you feel very hungry for something or the food that makes your mouth salivate. McDonald’s serves all kinds of burgers, from cheese burgers to beef burgers. These things always make my mouth water every time I walk into the restaurant.
14. To foot the bill:
To pay the bill for something typically when the amount is considered large or unreasonable. My friend asked me out for dinner, and he didn’t want me to foot the bill.
15. To spoil your appetite:
To eat something that will stop you feeling hungry or makes you skip the next meal, when it’s meal-time.
16. Processed food:
Commercially prepared food bought for convenience. The food which is cooked. canned, frozen or packed in a nutritional composition in order to preserve in a different way. Processed food is very convenient for those who are busy all day long, but eating it frequently may be very harmful to our health.
17. To bolt something down:
To eat something very quickly that you hardly chew or taste it. My son bolted down his lunch and went out with his friends.
18. To follow a recipe:
To cook a meal using instructions. I set up and run a famous blog which give readers hundreds of quick lessons on how to follow recipes to make any dish great.
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