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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 197. The idiom today is not for all the tea
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in China. Okay. Well let's take a look at the note here. If someone says that they
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would not do something for all the tea in China, they mean that they wouldn't do
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it for any price, no price at all. So you couldn't give them enough money
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to do it. Okay. Let's continue with the note here.The phrase of course
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originated in the late 19th century. Remember that's the late 1800s from the
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fact that China was well known for producing large amounts of tea. Even
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today China still produces about 25 percent of the world's production of
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tea. Yeah. So it's still pretty impressive. Therefore if you wouldn't
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accept the offer of all the tea in China you probably wouldn't accept any
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monetary offer. So no, no, no value in money anyway because of course all the
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tea in China would probably be many many billions of dollars which would probably
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be enough for most people. So if you're not willing to accept that you probably
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wouldn't accept any money at all. Okay. Let's take a look at a couple of
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examples here. All right. Example number one. Of course is an a B Part A says
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would you be willing to do a nude of lovemaking scene in that movie ? And of
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course you know B doesn't like this idea. So she says not for all the tea in China.
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So maybe she would never do that. She'd never be willing to be completely naked
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in a movie. Okay. Okay, so let's look at number two.
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He is just too ugly. I don't care how rich he is I wouldn't marry him for all
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the tea in China. All right. It's perfect examples of exactly how it would be used.
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Okay anyway, I hope you got it. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you for your
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time. Bye-bye.