Expressões com a palavra QUEEN

 Did you know there's a very interesting way to refer to British English? If you didn't, now you do. Here's the expression: the Queen's English. It alludes to the language or accent the queen of England speaks. I can't speak the Queen's English. I'm more used to the american English or even the international English, which is the one we as English students should be more focused on. But some friends of mine who also study English seem to have an easy time speaking the Queen's English. They say it's easier. I don't see it that way. What do you think?

Now this one is very curious. If you know a woman that's very, let's say, naughty, you can call her ice queen. Pretty strange, huh? But that's the way English is sometimes: weird. Take this other way of using the word queen as another example. You're pulling your male friend's leg saying that he's been acting like a homosexual man. You keep calling him a queen. "You're such a queen!" That's what you say. It is very offensive if you're using it with the wrong person, but it can be funny if the person being teased doesn't mind. And speaking of homosexual males, a drag queen is a male transvestite. I don't need to explain this one cause we say it the exact same way in Portuguese. So just keep in mind it's the same thing in English.

Have you ever seen the word queen being used as a verb? It happens to almost every noun in English, so it's not exactly a surprise. For example, you have a friend who's always complaining about everything. It sounds like she's always acting like a queen, a domineer, because she always wants everything to be in her own way. You say: "She queens it over everyone and everything. It's quite annoying." Alright, that's it for today guys. Talk to you next time!