This document discusses a study on the phraseological potential of gastronomic terms in the English language. The study aims to determine the degree of phrasal activity of common English food names. It analyzes over 300 English phraseological units containing gastronomic components. The most frequent components are bread, fish, meat, potatoes, tea, wine, milk, and various fruits and vegetables. These phraseological units reflect British cultural traditions and preferences related to food. They illustrate how English idioms incorporate names of foods, drinks, and ingredients integral to the national cuisine and lifestyle.

1. PHRASEOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF
GASTRONOMIC TERMS IN THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
Роботу виконала:
Науменко Ксенія Олександрівна,
учениця 10 класу
НВК «Загальноосвітня школа I-III ступенів -
дошкільний навчальний заклад»
Костянтинівської міської ради
Донецької області
Науковий керівник:
Кузнецова Вікторія Євгенівна,
вчитель англійської мови
НВК «Загальноосвітня школа I-III ступенів -
дошкільний навчальний заклад»
Костянтинівської міської ради
Донецької області

2. The urgency of the research
The urgency of the research is determined by the need for a
comprehensive analysis of PUGC as one of the most vivid verbal
means of expressing the national English culture.

3. The purpose of the research:
is to determine the basic English food, the degree of phrasal activity of
the gastronomic names.

4. The object of the research:
is the phraseological system of the English language.

5. The subject of the study:
is English phraseological units with the names of
gastronomic units.

6. There are the following tasks for
achievement of the goal:
➢ to define the concept of phraseological units with a gastronomic
component;
➢ to describe the gastronomic culture of the British;
➢ to investigate what names of products became productive elements
in the formation of phraseologisms;
➢ to examine what spheres of English life the widespread use of
gastronomic terms in the phraseology of the English language is
connected with.

7. Methods we used:
➢ method of continuous sampling
➢ descriptive method

8. Food is an integral part of human existence.
It plays an important role in our life:
➢ breakfast, dinner, banquet, negotiations;
➢ wedding, birthday party, feast.

9. British lifestyle reflects in their national cuisine.
The day of the Englishman, of course,
begins with morning tea or orange juice.
For the first breakfast
eggs with bacon,
oatmeal and a browned toast
with orange jam are usually served.

10. Lunch often includes roast (with fried potatoes and green vegetables),
dessert, pudding, rice with milk.
Sometimes lush cheese, eating not only with bread, but also with
special biscuits and butter.

11. The British eat a lot of meat.

12. Fish is also of great importance.

13. Eggs are also traditional.

14. Toasts are always served.

15. As a dessert widespread, they receive fresh fruit,
fruit and berry puree with cream, ice cream.
Among the fruit apples are wide-spread.

16. In England tea is the most widely used.
To the tea pies with candied fruit, almonds or other nuts,
spicy, breads or finely chopped breads and butter are
served.

17. The names of these products, drinks and
taste additives are parts of the
phraseological units with gastronomic
components.

18. The phraseological units with gastronomic
components are considered as phraseological
units which contain one or several gastronomic
lexical units.
They reflect cultural preferences, tastes, traditions
relating to traditional British food.

19. ➢Daily bread – засіб до існування.
➢Earn one’s bread – заробляти на
прожиток.

20. The second most frequent gastronomic unit is fish. It is
mentioned in the following phraseological units:
➢ Leaves and fishes – земні блага.
➢ A fish out of water – почувати себе ніяково,
бути не в своїй стихії.

21. The gastronomic component meat is found in such PUGC as
➢ After meat mustard – занадто пізно, після
вечері гірчиця.
➢ Meat and potatoes – найважливіше, основне.

22. Nowadays it is impossible to imagine the English menu without
potatoes that has become one of the main food products and an
ingredient of many dishes.
➢ Hold one’s potato – запастись терпінням, не хвилюватися.
➢ Small potatoes – дрібниці.

23. The names of drinks: tea, water, milk, wine are introduced in such
phraseological units as:
➢ Husband’s tea – слабкий чай, вода.
➢ Fire water – «вогняна вода», спиртні напої.
➢ Drink (suck) in something with one’s mother’s milk- вбирати щось з
молоком матері.
➢ Take wine with somebody – обмінятися тостами, випити за чиєсь
здоров’я.

24. Sometimes we use food expressions to describe someone’s physical
characteristics, personality, a situation or activity.
➢ Fat as butter –товста людина.
➢ Carrot top – рудий.
➢ Cool as cucumber – спокійний.
➢ Sweetie pie – дорогий, кохана.

25. The main factors affected PUGC formation are
AGRICULTURE
1. Hard cheese – невдача, прикра ситуація.
2. Apple of discord – яблуко розбрату.
3. Bread and butter – хліб насущний.

26. FISHING:
1. Land one’s fish – домагатися свого, спіймати когось на гачок.
2. Best fish is near the bottom – найліпша риба на самому дні,
все гарне нелегко дається.

27. TRADITIONS OF THE PEOPLE:
➢ Good wine needs no bush – (за старим звичаєм шинкар вішав гілку
плюща на знак того, що в продажу є
вино).

28. ➢ Strawberry leaves – титул герцога (за старим звичаєм корону
герцога прикрашали орнаментом у вигляді
гілок суниці)

29. Proverbs and sayings with gastronomic components are the reflection of
folk wisdom and human experience.
They contain instructions, advice, warning against something.
➢ Don’t put all eggs in one basket - не ризикуй усім, будь обачним.
➢ Life is not all cakes and ale (beer) – Життя - не все пиріжки та пиво.

30. In the English language a lot of PUGC were created by William Shakespeare.
Sweets to sweet – Прекрасне – прекрасній.
Hamlet: What, the fair Ophelia?
Queen: Sweets to sweet: farewell (scattering flowers) (W. Shakespeare ‘Hamlet’,
act V, sc 1)
Гамлет: То есть как, Офелия?
Королева (разбрасывая цветы): Нежнейшее – нежнейшим. Спи с миром!
(перевод Б. Пастернака)

31. CONCLUSIONS
Nutrition, as an integral part of human life has conditioned a broad
availability of gastronomic code of culture in the phraseology of the
English language.
PUGC are one of the brightest verbal means of expressing the national
culture of Great Britain.
In our study three hundred and ten phraseological units from different
sources have been analyzed. The most popular gastronomic terms
in English phraseological units are the following components:

33. DRINKS
Wine
3%
Milk
4,8%
Tea
5,4%
Water
10,6%

34. FRUIT
and
VEGETABLES
Nut
4,2%
Apple
3,3%
Potato
3%
Bean
3%

35. The rest (40%) are gastronomic terms used in
phraseological units less than 3%.
They are cheese, hen, pudding, onion, cabbage,
cucumber, carrot.
Summing it up, we can conclude that in modern English
gastronomic terms have a great phraseological potential.

36. THANK YOU
for attention !