Oct 252012
In this episode, The Teacher introduces you to three idiomatic phrases connected with pies.
1. It’s as easy as pie
2. Pie-eyed
3. To have a finger in many pies
Transcript
Hello, I’m a very interesting and intelligent man. And today this pie and I are getting together to teach you some English idioms
I bet you’ve never been taught by a pie before!
Now you’re probably thinking ‘It’s very difficult to learn anything from a pie’, but you’re wrong.
It’s as easy as pie.
In English, if something is very easy, we can say ‘it’s as easy as pie’.
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