If English Expressions were Literal Part 4 | Symphony in Slang (1951) | Tex Avery Cartoon

Symphony in Slang is a 1951 cartoon short directed by Tex Avery, written by Rich Hogan and released with the feature film No Questions Asked by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Minimalist and abstract in style, it tells the story of a man (voiced by radio actor John Brown), who finds himself in Heaven explaining the story of his life to a bewildered Saint Peter and Noah Webster using slang of the time and common idioms. The majority of the short is made up of sight gags based on Peter and Webster's imagined, literal understandings of such phrases as "I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth" and "Outside it was raining cats and dogs." #english #idioms #cartoon #englishgrammar #englishvocabulary #vocabulary #englishlanguage #language #languagelearning #grammar #englishidioms #animation #texavery #avery #cartoon

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