A recipe for disaster

Learning English Conversations

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Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2016

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

When things go wrong and the outcome isn't good, what kind of recipe are you following? Learn a phrase that has nothing to do with cooking

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	The English we speak.
0:09.0	From BBC Learning English.
0:12.0	Hello and
0:15.0	hello, I'm
0:17.0	hello I'm Rob
0:19.0	Fay Faye what are you doing
0:22.0	I'm making a cake, a chocolate cake, obviously.
0:26.0	Why are you making a chocolate cake?
0:28.0	It's Helen's birthday.
0:30.0	What's wrong with that, Rob?
0:32.0	Well, for a start, we're in a radio studio, not a kitchen.
0:35.8	Also, you've only got five minutes before she arrives, and you're putting salt in the cake mix, not sugar?
0:43.1	Oops.
0:44.1	Oh, I don't know.
0:44.9	It's a recipe for disaster.
0:47.1	A recipe for disaster?
0:49.8	No, look, it's a recipe for a chocolate cake, Rob.
0:53.4	Well, that might be, but a recipe for disaster means a combination of things that will,
0:59.6	at some point, go wrong and cause harm, damage or in this case humiliation. In other words it will
1:07.1	end in trouble. So the phrase isn't about cooking. Oh dear Rob this wasn't the recipe I wanted to follow.
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