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REALLY URGENT!!!!!
It's for one of my language courses. Our teacher said we should do some research but I can't be bothered. Would be really great if you guys could help me. I know some of the stuff myself but probably you have better answers, so please HELP HELP HELP.... (and serious answers only, it's really important cause that teacher is a real bitch...)
1. When would you eat kedgeree? for breakfast, for lunch or for dinner
2. 'Toad-in-the-whole' has as little to do with toads as 'Welsh rabbit' has with rabbits; nor is it pigs that squeak in 'bubble and squeak' Which earthly delights hide behind these euphemisms?
3. What is the difference between a 'lunch' and a 'luncheon'?
4. Explain the saying 'gentlemen don't smoke before the queen is drunk'.
5. Talking of gentlemen, what do they do with a butter knife?
6. When British children ask for 'soldiers' at table, what do they want and what will be attacked?
7. What did Oliver Twist want more of?
8. For Virginia Woolf, even the food served in women's and men's colleges - a frugal diet in the former compared to a lavish spread in the latter - is proof of women's disadvantaged position. It is, in particular, the sweet dish served in Newnham College that provokes her ire.
"even mitigated by custard /they are/ an uncharitable vegetable (fruit they are not)", she caustically remarks. What is she referring to?
9. 'Naughty but Nice', an award-winning slogan for British cream was invented by one of the most famous contemporary British writers. Who?
Martin Amis, Julian Barnes or Salman Rushdie
10. Two linguistic nuts to crack:
a very small amount that has little or no value but tastes surprisingly good if it consists of a layer of sponge-cake soaked in sherry, followed by a layer of jelly and fruit, topped with custard and whipped cream.
= a _ _ _ _ _ _
some hoped-for but unguaranteed future prospect that could be mistaken for bird food
= _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
11. Where would you go for a traditional English meal if you were in London?
thanks for all the help in advance
It's for one of my language courses. Our teacher said we should do some research but I can't be bothered. Would be really great if you guys could help me. I know some of the stuff myself but probably you have better answers, so please HELP HELP HELP.... (and serious answers only, it's really important cause that teacher is a real bitch...)
1. When would you eat kedgeree? for breakfast, for lunch or for dinner
2. 'Toad-in-the-whole' has as little to do with toads as 'Welsh rabbit' has with rabbits; nor is it pigs that squeak in 'bubble and squeak' Which earthly delights hide behind these euphemisms?
3. What is the difference between a 'lunch' and a 'luncheon'?
4. Explain the saying 'gentlemen don't smoke before the queen is drunk'.
5. Talking of gentlemen, what do they do with a butter knife?
6. When British children ask for 'soldiers' at table, what do they want and what will be attacked?
7. What did Oliver Twist want more of?
8. For Virginia Woolf, even the food served in women's and men's colleges - a frugal diet in the former compared to a lavish spread in the latter - is proof of women's disadvantaged position. It is, in particular, the sweet dish served in Newnham College that provokes her ire.
"even mitigated by custard /they are/ an uncharitable vegetable (fruit they are not)", she caustically remarks. What is she referring to?
9. 'Naughty but Nice', an award-winning slogan for British cream was invented by one of the most famous contemporary British writers. Who?
Martin Amis, Julian Barnes or Salman Rushdie
10. Two linguistic nuts to crack:
a very small amount that has little or no value but tastes surprisingly good if it consists of a layer of sponge-cake soaked in sherry, followed by a layer of jelly and fruit, topped with custard and whipped cream.
= a _ _ _ _ _ _
some hoped-for but unguaranteed future prospect that could be mistaken for bird food
= _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
11. Where would you go for a traditional English meal if you were in London?
thanks for all the help in advance
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