Like turkeys voting for Christmas
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🗓️ 23 December 2014
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Do you celebrate Christmas? Do you like eating turkey? Do you think turkeys like Christmas? Learn this humorous idiom
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from BBC Learning English. |
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| 0:06.0 | The English we speak. |
| 0:08.0 | From BBC learning English. |
| 0:11.0 | com. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello and welcome to the English. dot com. Hello and welcome to the English we speak, where we teach you English words and phrases |
| 0:18.3 | which you might not find in your dictionary. |
| 0:20.8 | Hello I'm Rob. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm Faye Faye Hello Hello and I'm getting very excited. It's nearly Christmas. |
| 0:26.3 | I love Christmas all the food the presents the silly games and the... |
| 0:31.5 | Oh Fay Faye did you hear the boss wants us to agree? The I don't know but he wanted us to agree to it so I told him us agreeing to work on Christmas day |
| 0:46.6 | would be like turkeys voting for Christmas like turkeys voting for Christmas |
| 0:57.8 | Rob I know you like your turkey dinner but what does this got to do with turkeys? Let me explain Faye Faye as you know lots of people eat turkeys at Christmas. So do you think if the turkeys had a choice, |
| 1:07.0 | they would vote for Christmas? |
| 1:09.0 | No, of course not. It would be crazy for them to vote for Christmas because they get eaten. |
| 1:14.7 | That's right. So in English, we use this idiom like Turkey's voting for Christmas as a metaphor |
| 1:21.1 | when someone accepts a situation which will have a negative outcome for them. |
| 1:25.6 | Ah, so in our case if we agree to work on Christmas Day, then we can't have the food, the presents or the drinks and more importantly we can't spend |
| 1:35.4 | time with our family which will be really disappointing. |
| 1:39.3 | Exactly. |
| 1:40.3 | It will be like Turkeykeys voting for Christmas. |
| 1:43.0 | Let's hear some people using this phrase. |
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