Hello, I'm a very interesting and intelligent man.
And today I'm getting together with some of my feathered friends to teach you a thing or two about English idioms.
I bet you've never been never been taught by a bird before.
You might think that birds are not very clever and so not very good teachers – and you're right! I mean look at them.
Their heads are tiny. And a tiny head means a tiny brain. So in English we call someone isn't very bright ‘birdbrain’.
‘Birdbrain’ – something I've never been called. Another thing you may have noticed about birds is that they can fly, which is very clever considering they are birdbrains.
Now imagine the view a bird can get when it's flying. Here's a bird high in the sky and here's the ground. Marvellous. They can see everything.
So, come on, what do you think the idiom ‘to have a bird's eye view’ means? That's right, it means to be able to see very clearly from a high place. What's that you say? Ah, really, is that right, hmm… I've got some very interesting information.
Would you like to know who told me? Well didn't you see? A little bird told me. I can use this idiom when I want to give you some information but I don't want you to know who told me.
A… little… bird… told… me… some very interesting information about…You!