“As one door closes, another opens.
Me, eating through a chocolate advent calendar.”
source: Tried and True Recipes
chocolate idioms and expressions:
1.chocoholic – csokifüggő
someone who really likes and craves for chocolate
2.as useful/much use as a chocolate teapot – használhatatlan, haszontalan
Utterly useless or ineffectual (because pouring boiling water into a chocolate teapot would melt it).
3.chocolate box – giccses
used to refer to something that looks very attractive, but is traditional and boring; the phrase is always used before a noun
4.life is like a box of chocolates – Az élet olyan, mint egy doboz bonbon…; az élet kiszámíthatatlan
Life is unpredictable. A version of the phrase was popularized in the film Forrest Gump, in which it was followed by the second line: “You never know what you’re gonna get.”
5.that’s why they make chocolate and vanilla – nem baj, hogy az embereknek eltérő az ízlése
Used to express the fact that it’s OK for people to have varying tastes or preferences.
sources: The Free Dictionary by Farlex; Cambridge Dictionary
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Vocabulary
| to crave for | sóvárogni |
| utterly | teljesen |
| ineffectual | hatástalan |
| to refer to | utalni |
| attractive | vonzó |
| unpredictable | kiszámíthatatlan |
| popularized | népszerűsített |
| gonna (going to) | fog, lesz (jövő idő) |
| to express | kifejezni |
| varying tastes | különböző ízlések |
| preferences | preferenciák |
| complicated plot | bonyolult cselekmény |
| to expect | remélni |
| to get laid off | (őt) elbocsátják |
| certainly | biztosan, természetesen |
| to be stuck inside out | kifordulva, kicsavarodva lenni (esernyő) |
