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Nov 24, 2006 · In Canada we clearly drink more tea than the US and would say "put the kettle on" for either a stove top or electric kettle. It's rare and considered inconvenient to boil water for hot beverages in a sauce pan. However, if you make coffee in a French press or drip cone, you still put the kettle on.
Nov 24, 2014 · It's all in the imperative: Voice: We've got visitors arriving ~ put the kettle on, Polly, we'll all have tea. [pause, during which the potential visitors remember how vile Polly and Sukey's home-made biscuits are and decide to go to Starbucks instead] Voice: Never mind, Sukey, they've changed their minds ~ take the kettle off again.
Jun 22, 2010 · This is literal practical advice, I think: I was taught that you "take the pot to the kettle for tea and take the kettle to the pot for coffee". The rationale being that tea requires hotter water than coffee. If you take the kettle to the teapot, the hot water will have time to cool. The meaning of the sentence seems quite clear in this light ...
Mar 13, 2013 · Is the boxer telling his followers to stay tuned on the tracking down of the troll when he says "get the kettle on"? Does it have any specific meaning? Example : Woodhouse initially replied with some trash-talk of his own before keeping his 18,000 Twitter followers updated during the day as he drove to South Yorkshire to “give him a right pasting”.
Sep 17, 2014 · to (cause to) be fastened in position by pushing a point or end into something: [~ + object]to stick a peg in a pegboard. [no object]The arrow stuck in the tree. [~ + object] to fasten in position by or as if by something thrust through:to stick a painting on the wall. [~ + object] to put on or hold with something pointed; impale:to stick a ...
Dec 14, 2008 · English - England. Dec 13, 2008. #2. What the hearthbrush and the kettle-holder mean are really irrelevant (although i think they are kitchen utensils). It basically means that no-one was there to hear her. I would guess 'no one heard but the hearthbrush and kettle-holder' is a victorian expression. Last edited: Dec 13, 2008.
Aug 19, 2024 · Greece. British English (Sussex) Aug 19, 2024. #2. From your description, would understand your meaning to be "Make some instant coffee for us." "Put the kettle on" doesn't tell me which coffee-making method you want me to use (nor whether you want me to actually make the coffee).
Jul 27, 2008 · UK English. Jul 27, 2008. #2. There's an English expression "The pot calling the kettle black" which means that two people think that the other has done something wrong in their opinion. In most cases, we infer that both are equally to blame.
Jul 29, 2009 · Wikipedia lists an "alternative interpretation" of "pot calling the kettle black" that captures what I'm looking for: "The actual idiom is 'The pot bottom calling the kettle bottom black.'. A subtler alternative interpretation, included by some, [1] [2] but not all, [3] sources is that the pot is sooty (being placed on a fire), while the kettle ...
Apr 23, 2021 · The verb we expect is whistle, but when a kettle whistles very loudly, scream seems the most plausible descriptive term of the four on offer. While shout and cry are clearly unsuitable, squeal is far from impossible, and there is not a lot of reason to prefer scream to it.
