You'd better butter him up! 拿奶油出來就糗了

Brandon過年邀請了朋友來家裡聚餐，飯桌上大家無話不談，也談起了一些生活上的瑣事，Brandon擔心廠商要漲價，這時候朋友說了一句: You'd better butter him up! 吃著義大利麵的Brandon緊張地說: Butter?? But I'm a pretty bad cook. If I baked a cake it would probably be horrible. 朋友差點沒把食物從嘴裡噴出來，原來butter sb up的意思跟烤蛋糕用的butter完全沒關係！而是去巴結對方，拍個馬屁，給對方留一個好印象。

說到食物的片語，你腦袋浮現了哪幾種食物？幾年前記憶猶新的電影，那些年我們一起追的女孩，英文片名就是You're the Apple of My Eye，字面上是你是我眼中的那顆蘋果，其實the apple of sb's eye意思是指某人的唯一、珍愛的人或事物，現在我們就來介紹幾個從食物延伸出來的英文吧！

• to butter sb up/to butter up sb 巴結某人/釋出善意給某人，希望得到有利的回應

e.g. You'll have to better butter her up a bit before she'll agree.你得巴結一下她，她才會答應

• be in a jam 處於困境中

e.g. I think I'm sort of in a jam. My car overheated and won't start now. Would you mind giving me a drive home?
我現在有點囧，我的車過熱，現在發動不了。你介意載我回家嗎？

• to go bananas 發瘋、抓狂、歇斯底里 

e.g. That lady has gone bananas. 那位小姐已經抓狂了

• to put all your eggs in one basket 把雞蛋放同一個籃子

e.g. Never put all your eggs in one basket. You might be left with nothing.
絕不要把雞蛋放進同一個籃子裡，你可能會一無所有。

• to buy a lemon 買一部狀況很多的車

e.g. How to save money by not buying a lemon? 要怎麼節省買車費用又不買到車況差的？

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