[습관을 끊는 영어 표현들: 'Cold Turkey'부터 'Jonesing'까지]-[3 Idioms: cold turkey, kick the habit, and jonesing]

The A to Z English Podcast · B1 · 2025-04-02

📋 Summary

나쁜 습관을 끊는 영어 관용구 완벽 가이드

이번 'Ada's English Podcast'에서는 나쁜 습관을 중단하거나 그 과정에서 겪는 갈망을 표현하는 세 가지 주요 영어 관용구인 'to quit cold turkey', 'to kick the habit', 'jonesing'에 대해 다루었습니다. 각 표현의 의미와 사용 맥락을 정리합니다.

1. To quit cold turkey (단번에 끊다)

'To quit cold turkey'는 어떠한 습관이나 중독을 서서히 줄이는 것이 아니라, 'immediately'(즉시) 완전히 중단하는 것을 의미합니다. 예를 들어, 하루에 담배 20개비를 피우던 사람이 다음 날부터 아예 한 개비도 피우지 않는 상황을 말합니다.

대조적 방법 (Tapering): 진행자들은 이와 대조되는 방법으로 'tapering'(점진적으로 줄이기)을 언급합니다. 이는 습관을 서서히 줄여나가며 금단 현상을 완화하는 방식입니다.
개인차: 어떤 사람은 강한 의지력(willpower)으로 단번에 끊는 것이 가능하지만, 어떤 사람들은 금단 증상(withdrawal symptoms)의 고통을 견디지 못해 다시 습관으로 돌아가기도 합니다. 따라서 개인의 성향에 따라 적합한 방법이 다를 수 있다는 점이 강조되었습니다.

2. To kick the habit (습관을 버리다)

'To kick the habit'은 단순히 'to quit'과 같은 의미로, 'to quit something' 즉, 무언가 나쁜 습관을 끊어내는 행위를 뜻합니다.

은유적 표현: 이 표현은 마치 나쁜 습관을 발로 차서 멀리 보내버리는 듯한 메타포를 담고 있습니다. 무언가를 완전히 끝내기로 결심했을 때 흔히 사용하는 자연스러운 표현입니다.

3. Jonesing (강렬한 갈망을 느끼다)

'Jonesing'은 앞선 표현들과는 달리, 습관을 끊으려는 시도 중에 겪는 강력한 **'withdrawal symptoms'(금단 증상)**이나 **'craving'(갈망)**을 의미합니다.

사용 범위: 주로 니코틴이나 담배에 대한 갈망을 표현할 때 사용됩니다. 커피나 맥주에 대해 사용할 수도 있지만, 원어민들은 보통 커피를 원할 때 'craving'이라는 단어를 더 많이 사용합니다.
어원적 추측: 진행자들은 'Jonesing'의 어원에 대해 흥미로운 가설을 제시했습니다. 이는 남들과 비교하며 뒤처지지 않으려는 심리를 뜻하는 'keeping up with the Joneses'에서 파생되었을 가능성을 제기했습니다. 하지만 이는 어디까지나 추측이며, 현재는 담배와 관련하여 매우 특정적으로 사용되는 은어의 성격이 강합니다.

결론

나쁜 습관을 끊는 것은 개인의 'resilient'(회복 탄력성)와 의지에 달려 있습니다. 'Cold turkey'로 단번에 끊을지, 'tapering'을 통해 서서히 줄일지 선택하는 과정에서 'kick the habit'이라는 목표를 달성할 수 있습니다. 다만, 그 과정에서 찾아오는 'jonesing'(갈망)의 고통을 어떻게 관리하느냐가 습관을 완전히 떨쳐내는 핵심이라고 할 수 있습니다.

🎯Key Sentences

it means you just stop doing it immediately

즉시 하던 일을 멈추라는 뜻이에요.

and so on and so forth.

등등 여러 가지가 있습니다.

And you've upheld that.

그리고 당신은 그것을 지켜왔습니다.

there's like a benefit and a demerit

장단점이 있어요.

the sooner you stop a bad habit, the better.

나쁜 습관은 빨리 끊을수록 좋습니다.

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📝Key Phrases

quit cold turkey

단번에 끊다

kick the habit

나쁜 습관을 끊다

taper off

점차 줄이다

so on and so forth

등등

upheld that

그것을 지지했다

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📖 Transcript

Welcome to the Ada's English Podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co -host Sochel and today we're going to do an idioms episode.

And Sochel, why don't you share today's idioms with us, with our listeners.

Today's idioms are to quit cold turkey, to kick the habit, and jonesing.

So let's start off with the first one to quit cold turkey jack what does that mean if you quit something cold turkey it means you just stop doing it immediately so like quitting smoking cold turkey means like i smoke on wednesday but on thursday zero cigarettes i'm done i go from like 20 to a day to zero just nothing yes yeah or like you go from drinking um to not to never drinking again right uh lots of stuff so you use it in in a lot of aspects um and people a lot of people have like two ways to quit which is either they quit cold turkey or they're kind of a methodical they do like a quitting

plan like let's say you want to tapering tapering yeah like tapering tapering yeah like let's say that you smoke you smoke five packs a day and you think okay well well, I'm gonna next month, I'll move it down to four packs.

And then next month, three packs, and so on and so forth.

um i think it really depends on your personality i think there's like two camps there's i know like my grandpa used to smoke cigarettes and then he quit cold turkey when my oldest sister was born so wow okay yeah and so he never smoked again i never saw him smoke cigarette again and then he also quit drinking cold turkey way back when my mom and her sisters were still kids kids so he has very strong willpower but i think for people who find that they try to quit cold turkey and then they go back to something and they try to quit cold turkey again and they go back to something tapering is probably

a better plan yeah i guess you're right it's like how much ability you have to kind of deal with the the pain and suffering of like withdrawal symptoms you know what i mean yes it's like when you want to smoke so badly some people are just really are very resilient you know like your grandfather they're just like i don't care how much it hurts i'm just i'm not going back and other people i think will kind of just go oh it's not worth it it's too it's too hard and they'll fall back so if they taper then you don't have to really suffer the withdrawal symptoms as severely as cold turkey so i guess

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about jonesing yeah jonesing is a weird one this one is like kind of similar topic but different you know has nothing to do with quitting necessarily jonesing has more to do with the withdrawal symptoms symptoms so if you're if you smoke let's say uh two packs of cigarettes a day and then you quit cold turkey you try to kick the habit and you know quit cold turkey and then uh the next day you have a really strong withdrawal symptoms you could say i'm really jonesing a cigarette right now i'm jonesing something a cigarette uh an alcoholic drink whatever it might be whatever whatever your vice is.

And I thought that Jonesing comes from another meta, like another metaphor or idiom or figure of speech that is keeping up with the joneses the joneses are like let's say your neighbors and they get a brand new car and then you want a brand new car it's like keeping up appearances or keeping up and wanting what the other person has that's on higher status than you or has something that you don't have so i think maybe jonesing comes from there like that makes sense yeah yeah that's my best educated guess because i can't imagine what else it comes from yeah i can't think of anything otherwise it's

really old and obscure and we wouldn't even yeah it's probably like some world war one you know thing some guy named jones or whatever you know wanted a cigarette in 1910 right and mostly people use it for cigarettes which is kind of weird because i've never heard anyone say i'm really jonesing for like a beer i'm jonesing for a cup of coffee have you heard yeah for nicotine is it's really like yeah that's the only time i've ever heard it you know jonesing i mean you could say like i'm jonesing a cup of coffee but it's we would much more we're much more likely to say i'm craving a cup of coffee

yeah that's true i would say yeah i would say it's definitely getting wiped out yeah yeah all right listeners well if you enjoyed that episode make sure to leave us a comment down below and follow our podcast on spotify red circle or anywhere else that you listen to podcasts like apple podcasts as well make sure to shoot us an email at a to z english podcast at gmail .com and join the wechat group so that we can catch up and we'll see you guys next time bye bye Bye -bye.

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