Recherche parmi différents professeurs en Anglais…
vicky_shen
What does "sit in the food" mean?
In the sitcome Friends, Phoebe describe a guy taking his Thanksgiving Dinner as "He just sat in gravy.". How can a man sit in gravy?
In another place, we can also see the phrase as "How to sit in the right food to eat" . ( from the website: http://www.finaltry.cn/read.php?4417)
What does "sit in the food" mean?
7 janv. 2012 06:25
Réponses · 3
1
vicky_shen,
In the sitcom Friends, Phoebe describes a guy taking his Thanksgiving Dinner as "He just sat in gravy.". How can a man sit in gravy?
Unfortunately, you are reading from a bad transcription of what Phoebe actually said in that episode of "Friends". Here is the actual dialog:
-Eww. -What?
Ugly Naked Guy's taking his turkey out of the oven.
-Who cares?
-He just added gravy. (NOT--->He just sat in gravy.)
Oh, my God! He's not alone.
Ugly Naked Guy is having Thanksgiving dinner with Ugly Naked Gal.
I gotta see this!
All right, Ugly Naked Guy!
Ugly naked dancing!
It's nice that he has someone.
Ugly Naked Guy - A fat naked man that lives in an apartment across the street from Monica's. They can see right into his apartment when looking out Monica's window.
------
"How to sit in the right food to eat." is simply gibberish.
I went to the site. http://www.finaltry.cn/read.php?4417
The English used on that site is all substandard. The sentence "How to sit in the right food to eat." is simply bad English, most likely a bad translation from another language. In fact, all of the of the English used on that site is substandard.
7 janvier 2012
I'd understand it as, "you enjoyed the food so much (or you ate so voraciously), you may as well have been sitting in it."
7 janvier 2012
Vous n'avez pas encore trouvé vos réponses ?
Écrivez vos questions et profitez de l'aide des locuteurs natifs !
vicky_shen
Compétences linguistiques
Chinois (mandarin), Anglais
Langue étudiée
Anglais
Articles qui pourraient te plaire

Same Word, Different Meaning: American, British, and South African English
18 j'aime · 14 Commentaires

How to Sound Confident in English (Even When You’re Nervous)
15 j'aime · 12 Commentaires

Marketing Vocabulary and Phrases for Business English Learners
12 j'aime · 6 Commentaires
Plus d'articles
