I can't eat fish to save my life

[alpacinou]

Hello

I have heard the idiom "I can't do something to save my life".

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/can-t-do-sth-to-save-your-life

Can it be used like this? :

I hate red meat. I can't eat red meat to save my life.

If not, is there another idiom similar to that which means I really can't eat a certain type of food?

 

[GoesStation]

I can't xxx to save my life means that no matter how hard you try, you fail at xxx. This doesn't work for something you just don't like.

 

[alpacinou]

I can't xxx to save my life means that no matter how hard you try, you fail at xxx. This doesn't work for something you just don't like.

I see. What is an expression which has the meaning that you really hate a certain kind of food?

 

[GoesStation]

I see. What is an expression which has the meaning that you really hate a certain kind of food?

You can't stand it.

 

[alpacinou]

So, we don't have an idiom similar to "I can't to save my life" about food?

 

[teechar]

You've now changed your question.

 

[GoesStation]

So, we don't have an idiom similar to "I can't to save my life" about food?

You could say I wouldn't eat meat to save my life.

 

[alpacinou]

You could say I wouldn't eat meat to save my life.

I like that.

 

[Tdol]

I see. What is an expression which has the meaning that you really hate a certain kind of food?

I couldn't....

 

[Rover_KE]

I expect you realise it's an example of hyperbole/exaggeration/overstatement, alpacinoutd, as most people dying of starvation would eat anything to stay alive.

Another example of hyperbole is I'd kill for a bacon sandwich.

 

[GoesStation]

And if you don't already know how to say it, this would be a good time to look up the pronunciation of hyperbole.

 

[Skrej]

I see. What is an expression which has the meaning that you really hate a certain kind of food?

There is the (quite possibly literal) expression "I can't stomach X". You can actually use this for non-food items or even actions as well. The idea is that eating/doing/seeing X makes you physically ill.