| Episode 48: Strawberries and cream
John: Oh Helen! Fancy bumping into you at Wimbledon!
Helen: And I was having such a nice time too.
John: Bet you're here on one of those cheap afternoon tickets, aren't you?
Helen: Yeah but for a fiver they're such a bargain.
John: I wouldn't know. I've been here all day - in the Centre Court posh seats - not much change from fifty quid. Well, I won't keep you. I need to get on with my horrendously expensive strawberries and cream before they get warm.
Helen: Oh, look out!
John: Arrghh! I'm covered in strawberries and cream!
Man: I'm so sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going.
Helen: Look on the bright side John. At least with all that red and white, you look ...
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Vocabulary:（字汇）
a fiver (informal):（50英镑，非正式）
five pounds (money)
fifty quid (informal):（50英镑，非正式）
fifty pounds (money)
berry nice:（"粉"好看）
The usual expression is "very nice" but because the man spilt strawberries (or berries) on John, Helen is making a joke because "berry" and "very" sound similar.
pretty in pink:（粉红色很好看）
Usually you say to a girl or woman wearing pink clothes that she looks "pretty in pink". Helen is making a joke because John is covered in pink not because he is wearing pink clothes but because the man spilt strawberries on him.
a real smoothie:
This has two meanings. One is a kind of drink made of fruit, cream, juice mixed together. The other meaning describes someone who is very smooth, sophisticated or suave. So Helen is making a joke here because John looks like a drink (with all the strawberries and cream spilt on him) and she is also being sarcastic (making a joke by saying something that is the opposite of the truth) when she says he looks smooth because, of course, he doesn't look smooth at all!
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