Bottomless

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🗓️ 25 November 2013

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Li starts to get worried when her colleagues talk about going for a 'bottomless' meal. What does it mean? Find out more by listening to this programme.

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0:00.0	This is a feature from BBC learning English.
0:03.0	For more information and our terms of use go to BBCworldservice.com
0:09.0	forward slash podcasts.
0:11.0	The English we speak.
0:13.0	Okay everyone, it's six o'clock. I'm done. I think it's time we go for dinner.
0:20.0	I'm starving. Shall we go to big eaters I love their salad you can go
0:25.4	bottomless. I'm not a salad person how about some fish and chips? Happy Fisher
0:31.0	offers bottomless chips.
0:32.6	Now they suggest we go to happy chicken across the road.
0:36.2	We can go bottomless with any soft drinks.
0:39.8	I'm very thirsty.
0:41.8	Do we know anywhere that we can go bottomless on the main course?
0:45.6	No, that can only be your home.
0:48.8	Oh my God, Neil, what are you talking about? Are we really going bottomless tonight? I'm afraid I can't go to the restaurant naked.
0:58.0	No, Lee, you've misunderstood the word bottomless.
1:02.0	Oh, what does it mean then? Here it simply means
1:05.5	unlimited or boundless. You can have as much food or drink as you like for the same
1:11.5	price. Ah, it sounds like a buffet, doesn't it?
1:16.0	You can eat as much as you like.
1:18.0	Uh, can I say I had a bottomless buffet?
1:21.0	No, it's not a term people really say or use. Mostly you see it only
1:26.8	on the menu in a restaurant. I have seen the word unlimited but I've never seen the
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