You're listening to the Rachel's English podcast made especially for non-native speakers,

where we study the way Americans really speak.

My goal is for you to listen to this podcast every week and sound more natural when speaking

English and improve your listening comprehension.

Today we're going to cover something really fun.

A whole bunch of idioms that are related to food.

I'm here with my husband, David.

Hey, everybody.

To help me explain these idioms and come up with situations in which you may want to use them.

For a free transcript of the episode, just visit rachelsenglish.com slash podcast and search for this episode.

First of all, I've compiled a list of some idioms, some food idioms that I thought of, and I just want to say right at the beginning, there is no way this is every food idiom that exists.

You just found one this morning. Right. I used one and I thought, oh my gosh, I have to use that one in the podcast. Do you remember the one I thought of?

Shoot. No, I can't remember it. I remember. What is it?

We were sitting, I was, we had just gotten back from a run and I was sitting on the kitchen

floor stretching.

Mm-hmm.

And Stony just wanted to be sitting on my lap the whole time.

I was trying to stretch to sort of like adjust, help my body adjust from the run.

And he was making it hard to do that because he wanted to hang on me the whole time.

And I said something like, oh, I know, I was sweaty and his clothes.

I didn't want him around me because he was like dressed for the day.

And I said, we may have to change him because he's

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