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Now the VOA special English program:words and stories
Americans often use expressions about animals,In2008,the main candidates for president each used this exprssion"you can put a lipstick on a pig,But it is still a pig"This means that it is waste of time to change somethings from ugly or unpleasant to beautiful.
There are other expressions about improving pig'appearance.like this one,a hog in a silk wister coat is still a hog,Hogs are similar with pigs ,only bigger,Americans use many other exprssions about pigs ,hogs ,and female hogs called sows,like this one.you can not make a silk purse out of sow'ear,This means you can not create something valuable from something that has no value.
In the pigzie is another unusual expression,It means somthing that is not sound so or would never happen.
Then there is an expression:costing porks before swide,That means wasting something valuable on someone who would not be thankful or care about it,
However at least one kind of pig can be useful in saving money,It is called a piggy bank,you can buy a small container shape like a pig.It has a hole where child put money into it,
Hogs are very large animals,If you say you ate high of a hog during the holiday,It means you ate very good or costly food,If you went a whole hog on your trip,It means you did everything possible to have fun,But you should never go hog wild at any time,Because that means behaving badly,
Hogs take up a lot of space,But people should not take up more than their share,If one of your children is taking up too much space sitting in front of television,Other children might say:do not hog the couch,and a road hog is driver who is using more than his share on the road,Such driver increases dangers for other drivers,
Pig terms are also used in American politics,Farmers mark their pig'ears to identify them,In politics ear marks are money for projects in congressman homestate or ..and politicians might say there is a lots pork in the budget proposal,meaning waste for spending,
In many areas ,pigs provide ham, bacon and pork product to eat,All Americans want to bring home the bacon,That means to earn enough money to provide necessity of life,Experts says this was first used in 1920,But they believe that it is come from much old game, a catching a greased pig,this was a popular country fields in which the winner was the awarded pig |
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