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This episode introduces you to 5 more hopefully amusing idioms. What is Cockney rhyming slang? How does a flirting zombie sound? Why don’t people normally eat butterflies? What’s the common response to praising girl’s breasts at a first date? How did I use to deal with stress before exams? What would a Liverpool manager tell his players if his team were four goals down during the half-time break? How did I make the decision to put off telling you the “Funny Idioms Story” until the next episode? By the way, the recurrent themes in this episodes are singers and dating.

In the first episodes of the year 2014 I take a look at idioms which I consider to be funny.

First of all, I wish you all the best and something extra for the new year and then I move on to explaining what idioms are in general and why students as well as teachers tend to either love them or hate them. In the main part I focus on 4 (out of planned 9) idiomatic expressions, explain what they mean, how they are used, and more importantly speculate about their possible literal meaning. It might sometimes result in me getting involved in some kind of a surrealistic polemic in a form of interior monologue.

I also give you conventional answers to some interesting questions such as: What insects can easily get into your pants? Does a worm know that you don’t want to eat it? What do zombies and worms have in common? Who was Vincent Van Gogh and how does this figure relate to English language? What would happen to pork meat from the economic viewpoint if pigs could fly? In addition, if you want to hear my Dutchman story from about 8 years ago, I suggest that you listen to this episode :)

This is just a short message to all my Itunes Listeners and everyone who hasn't noticed that I moved the podcast to Audioboo.fm. Listen to this to find out more. Thank you for understanding. :)

Zdenek

This is the long awaited episode with Jirka, an estate agent from the Czech Republic, who went to conquer the Himalayas.

I interviewed him about his exciting experience after he came back which was about a month ago .

Did all the members of the expedition survive the trip?

How exciting was this experience for Jirka?

Did he reach Mera Peak? What was it like to acclimatize? What hiccups did Jirka have to undergo?

If you are all curious, have a listen to this first part of the interview.

This is the last concluding episode of the trilogy about funny idioms (40-42). I have never worked more on a single episode than this one. It is up to you my listeners to decide if my effort was worth it.

The episode 42 has two parts. In part No.1 I go through funny idioms that the facebook group members sent me as their favourites.

The second part is dedicated to an autobiographical story which I wrote for you to wrap up the funny idioms series. The story is about my university graduation, especially about what preceded and followed. All the idioms that appeared on the previous two episodes will crop up in the story so the task is to pay close attention to how they are used.

Massive thanks to Luke Thompson as well as to all those who inspired me to create the story. I would also like to point out that all the music and sounds I used in the story were borrowed with a non-commercial intention.