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Hi there students. Some idioms with pig or pigs. Yeah. Um, let's see.
The first one, to bring your pigs to market. Okay, to bring your pigs to market is to realize your potential. So he's really talented, but I'm not sure if he can concentrate enough to bring his pigs to market. You have to bring your pigs to market to realize your full potential. So he's a really talented footballer, but playing in this little league team, he's not, he's not, he's not going to be able to bring his pigs to market. Okay, so to realize your full potential. Um, let's see. If you learn English, when you have a conversation with a native speaker and you understand them and you speak well, that's really bringing your pigs to market.
To buy, whoops, to bring your pigs to market. I think maybe four and a half in formality.
To buy a pig in a poke. This means to buy something without looking at it properly. Um, in an auction, if you, if you bid for something that you haven't looked at pro properly, you could end up buying a pig in the poke. A pig in a poke. Yeah. If you don't inspect things thoroughly, um, when you buy them, very often you're gonna have a bad outcome. Yeah. I just took his word for the fact that it was working and then I discovered it wasn't. So I really did buy a pig in the poke. Pig in a poke. In a poke. Um, if you buy a secondhand car, um, without knowing something about car engines, you really are by, uh, buying a pig in a poke. You might be lucky, but you might not. So to buy a pig in a poke. Poor in formality.
If pigs had wings. If pigs could fly. This is saying that something's impossible. Yeah. Um, "I promise to pay you back if pigs could fly." Is this saying I don't believe you? This is to show that you feel skeptical that this is going to happen. You really don't believe it. Um, he promises to do what he said if pigs could fly. I really don't think he's going to, um, to do this. Um, he said he said that he would invite us all out to lunch next week and pay for it if pigs could fly. I don't believe this is going to happen. I think maybe 3.5 to 4 in formality. Yeah. If pigs could fly, they would have wings. If pigs had wings, there are various ways of saying this. One.
Okay. A fat pig. As fat as a pig. Yeah. He's as fat as a pig. Well, sometimes you might be able to say that to me. This is very rude as well. To be very obese, to be very fat. He's a fat pig. Yeah. Um, so yeah, um, I used to be really athletic but when I, when I was at school, but now I'm as fat as a pig. Um.
[Music] 3.54 in formality. Notice it's quite strong as well.
To bleed like a pig. To bleed like a stuck pig. So I cut myself with a razor blade and I'm bleeding like a stuck pig. I don't know how to, how to stop it. Do you think we should call an ambulance? He's bleeding like a stuck pig. Yeah. My hand is still bleeding like a stuck pig. We better go to the, to the hospital. Okay. Um, to bleed like a pig. To bleed bleed like a stuck pig. I think the stuck is the idea of going, uh, hunting on horses, um, several hundred years ago, and they had lances and you'd stick the pig. Pig sticking. Yeah. You'd, they'd kill the pig with lances. Well, it's not a pig, it's a wild boar, which is quite a dangerous creature, but I guess that bled profusely. So if you're bleeding a lot, you're bleeding like a stuck pig.
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To bring your pigs to market: to realize your full potential.
To buy a pig in a poke: to buy something without looking at it or inspecting it properly.
If pigs could fly: I don't believe this is going to happen. Yeah, it's pure cynicism.
As fat as a pig: big, big fat guy.
And then to bleed like a pig, to bleed like a stuck pig: to bleed lots and lots and lots.
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