{"id":4696,"date":"2015-12-15T17:05:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:15:40","slug":"fancy-a-cuppa-got-time-for-a-brew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/en\/news\/fancy-a-cuppa-got-time-for-a-brew","title":{"rendered":"Fancy a cuppa? Got time for a brew?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travel around the UK a bit and you’ll find that tea is not just known as ‘tea’: so ubiquitous is it that there are plenty of\u00a0regional and affectionate names for our favourite drink. A cuppa, a brew, a cup of char, a Rosy Lee (Cockney rhyming slang), a builder’s will all get you the same thing: a nice cup of steaming hot, milky tea. Lovely!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"tea\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tea is so important to us that it’s even filtered into our everyday language and is integral to some of our common idioms. Here are a few examples:<\/span><\/p>\n

Not for all the tea in China!<\/b><\/h3>\n

You want me to do what?? <\/i>Not for all the tea in China! Essentially meaning that you wouldn’t do something, no matter how good the reward.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not my cup of tea.<\/b><\/h3>\n

Are you enjoying this programme? Not really- it’s not my cup of tea. Very simply, if something’s not your cup of tea, you don’t like it.<\/span><\/p>\n

As useful as a chocolate teapot.<\/b><\/h3>\n

Fairly self-explanatory: not useful in the slightest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tea and sympathy<\/b><\/h3>\n

If someone’s upset, you might give them tea and sympathy (a nice strong cup of hot tea offering, of course,\u00a0immeasurable comfort).<\/span><\/p>\n

Tea leaf<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Oy! That tea leaf’s ‘alf-inched me wallet! In Cockney rhyming slang, a tea leaf is a thief! (And, in case you’re wondering, to half inch is to pinch.)<\/span>
\nCan you think of anymore tea idioms? Lets us know on Twitter <\/a>or Facebook<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Travel around the UK a bit and you’ll find that tea is not just known as ‘tea’: so ubiquitous is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-languagelearning","tag-culture"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":4696},"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":24,"label":"Fun stuff"},{"value":3,"label":"Language Learning"}],"post_tag":[{"value":46,"label":"culture"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Richard Howeson","author_link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/en\/news\/author\/richard"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":24,"name":"Fun stuff","slug":"fun-stuff","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":24,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":87,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":24,"category_count":87,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Fun stuff","category_nicename":"fun-stuff","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Language Learning","slug":"languagelearning","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":254,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":254,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Language Learning","category_nicename":"languagelearning","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":46,"name":"culture","slug":"culture","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":46,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":48,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10564,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions\/10564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}