英语习语与风俗习惯（Idiom ＆Customs）
1.饮食习俗对英语习语的影响
（面包，牛油，果酱，牛奶，茶，奶酪）
面包（bread）
1 Earn one 's bread谋生 e.g he earns his bread by working in a restaurant.
2 Bread and circus 享受物质生活和精神生活 e.g Saturday is bread and circus time .
3 Bread and butter 必需品 e.g don 't quarrel with your bread and butter .
4 Take (the ) bread out of one's mouth 抢某人的饭碗 e.g if you do that ,you'll taking the bread out of your fellow workers here .
5 The greatest thing since sliced bread 比较受欢迎的人或事物 e.g i don't know why people think so highly of him :he only taught in America and he was just a teacher .
6 Know (on) which side one's bread is buttered 知道如何笼络人心
7 Butter both sides of one's bread 从两边获利
牛油（butter）
1 Butter up (涂牛油)讨好，巴结
2 （look at if ）butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth 装得很娇弱 e.g when a visiter comes in she smiles and languishes ,you'd think that butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth .
奶酪（chee）
1 Big chee 大人物 e.g he said his goal was to become the big chee in the company .
2 Whole chee 自以为自己很重要 e.g john said he was the whole chee in the project becau he thought the idea .
3 Hard chee
4 Chee cake 性感的女性
果酱（jam）
1 Like /want jam on it 希望好上加好
路西塔尼亚号2 Money for jam 容易做的事，容易赚的钱（no money for jam 不容易做的事）
3 Jam tomorrow 兑现不了的承诺
茶（tea）
1 For all the tea in China .(多用于否定句中)报酬很多
融资专员
2 Cup of tea 喜欢的东西 e.g pop music is hardly my father's cup of tea .
3 A storm in a tea cup .小题大做
牛奶（milk）
1 Milk for babies e.g this book is really milk for babies .
2 Come (go)home with the milk
3 There's no u crying over split milk
馅饼（pie)
1 As easy as pie e.g The exam was as easy as pie .
2 Have a (one's )finger in every pie 在每件事情上都要参与 e.g she always wants to have a finger in the pie if the class organizes some activities .
3 Eat humble pie 被迫低身下气的做一件事 e.g Tom told a lie about George ,and when he was found out ,he had to eat humble pie .
4 Pie in the sky 不能保证实现的许诺
酒吧文化（pub）
啤酒（beer）
1 Beer and skittles 悠闲自得的生活 e.g life is not only beer and skittles .
2 Small beer （淡啤酒）指小人物，无关紧要的事 e.g the other girls emed very small beer to me in comparison with her .
铜川旅游景点3 Cry in one's beer (在酒里哭)指借酒消愁
4 On the beer 烂醉如泥，狂欢
5 Drink one's beer 让。。。闭嘴 e.g he kept talking all the time ,finally i had to ask him to drink his beer .
酒吧其他现象
1 怎么查话费余额Chalk it up 公布，公告 e.g the recorder chalked it up as soon as the athlete broke a record .
2 Wipe the slate clean 了结旧账，既往不咎
3 A clean slate 改过自新 e.g whatever his crimes ,every criminal who has come come out of prison should be allowed to start a new job with a clean slate .
2.宠物习俗对英语习语的影响
200字读后感狗（dog）
a.狗作名词用的习语
1 Lucky dog 幸运的人
2 Big dog 大亨
3 Top dog /under dog 优胜者；左右全局的人
4 Dead dog 没有用的人，没有价值的东西油嘴滑舌
5 Dumb dog 沉默寡言的人
6 Sea dog 老练的水手
7 A bone of contention 争斗的原因
8 那一年那一天With the tail between the legs 垂头丧气
9 A shaggy dog story 冗长，杂乱的故事
10 Lazy dog 懒汉
b.狗作动词用的习语
炒口蘑用焯水吗
1 Sleep a dog-sleep 打盹儿，抽空睡一会
1 Lead a dog's life 过着狗一样的生活
2 Work like a dog 拼命工作
3 Die dog for sb. 尽犬马之劳
4 Let sleeping dog lie 莫惹是生非（wake a sleeping dog）
5 Put on the dog 摆架子，妄自尊大 e.g becau her father has two cars ,she is always putting on the dog .
C.与狗有关的谚语
1 Every dog has his day .人人都有得意时。
2 Old dogs will learn no new tricks .老年人学不了新的东西。
3 Give a dog an ill name and hang him .欲加之罪何患无辞。
4 Beware of a silent dog and still water .提防那些不动声色的人。
猫（cat）
1 A cat has nine lives .吉人天相；猫有九条命
2 Cat hide their claws(爪子) . 知人知面不知心。
3 All cats are grey in the dark. 人在未成名时，很难看出有什么差别。
4 A gloved cat catches no mice .四体不勤的人，什么事也做不了。
5 There are more way of killing a cat than by choking it with butter .有的是办法；做某事的办法不止一种。
3.人名对英语习语的影响
1 Jack 普通人；男人；男孩
2 Every man Jack 人人，每个人
3 Jill 常见的女子名
4 Jack and Jill 小伙子与姑娘
5 Jack of all traders and master of none .杂而不专。
