Metaphors in Portuguese using elements of cooking

Metaphors in Portuguese using elements of cooking

Hello and welcome to our Todo Mundo Pod 52 (in Portuguese) called metaphors in Portuguese using elements of cooking

On today’s episode, we are going to speak about metaphors in Portuguese using elements of cooking. If you follow this site, you already know a little about Portuguese figures of speech, you already know a little about metaphors.

In any case, here’s a link to our episode about Portuguese figures of speech

Click here to visit our episode called semantic figures 

Metaphors are words that we use by giving them another meaning according to the context we use them: we replace the original meaning, so that they have a new one.

At the end of this episode, you’ll know:

• What’s the meaning of farinha do mesmo saco
• What’s the meaning of batata
• What’s the meaning of banana
• What’s the meaning of acabar em pizza
• What’s the meaning of falar abobrinha
• What’s the meaning of descascar um abacaxi
• What’s the meaning of encher linguiça
• What’s the meaning of doce de coco
• What’s the meaning of manteiga derretida
• What’s the meaning of dar sopa

Those are a few examples on what we can do only by using cooking elements in Portuguese and they are often used in our daily conversation. Don’t you think they are useless expressions!

Click on the link to visit another site containing some metaphorical expressions of Brazilian cuisine.

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That’s enough for today!

See you next time!

Thanks

Marcos Sales

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