This week Americans will be celebrating Thanksgiving. It's always celebrated on fourth Thursday of each November. For some, it's religious holiday, for most, it's family holiday. For everyone, it's a day of giving thanks. We'd like to celebrate by eating roasted turkey. So let me share with you some related expressions.
Now the turkeys you saw on that clip are wild turkeys. They came into my back yard the other day. I'm sure that wild turkeys don't look very appetizing, but the turkeys that you can find in supermarkets do. As I said, on Thanksgiving day, and every household you sure to find roasted turkey on the table. In fact, you can find all kinds food on the table on Thanksgiving day. We have a roasted turkey on cranberry sauce or gravy, corn, green beans, mashed potatoes, squash, corn bread, pumpkin pie, apple pie and probably few other foods I'm forgetting right now.
You can imagine that if you eat even a little bit of all those foods, it's enough to make your stomach feel very full. So the first expression I want to share with you is to be stuffed. It means that you eat so much you cannot possible eat any more (배꼽 뒤집어진 상태!). It's informal expression. So friends and family members offer you to eat and you're full, you can say to them: “Thanks, but I'm stuffed!”
The next expression to share with you is ‘go cold turkey’. It means stop a bad habit suddenly and completely. We mostly use this expression connected to drugs. So if someone suddenly stops taking drug, they suddenly stop smoking or drinking, we say they go cold turkey. (i.e. How did you quit smoking? Cold turkey!!)
The last expression, I want you to know is ‘talk turkey’. This means to talk simply and directly. Now, people like politicians or business men sometimes have reasons to talk carefully and secretively and not talk about the main issue right away. So somebody suggests “let's talk turkey!” It means that they want to address the most important things. They want to get to the point. OK. Let's review those expressions.