10 English Love Expressions English Vocabulary Speaking
hello everyone and welcome back to
english with lucy you might have noticed
to my new backdrop today this is a
terrace that is at my flat my new flat
in cambridge and i decided to sell here
because it’s a nice day and i haven’t
got much time so I really wanted to
squeeze in an extra video I asked you on
my Instagram at what sort of expressions
and idioms you’d like to hear about
today and I’ll also you had some really
really good suggestions one caught my
eye and that is idioms and expressions
relating to love oh how sweet this is
you really are a romantic Bunch aren’t
you so today we’re going to talk through
10 idioms that relate to love and I
think this is going to be a really
lovely positive one hopefully we’ll
leave the lesson with a warm fuzzy
feeling so this effort is going to help
you improve your vocabulary
it will also help you with your speaking
because you’ll be able to communicate
with native speakers and make yourself
understood more effectively and it will
also help you with your listening
because you’ll be able to understand
what natives are trying to say to you
when they use these expressions however
I think you know what’s coming next if
you want to take your listening to the
next level then why not try audible.com
I can offer you a one month free trial
that’s an entire free audio book and you
can use these audiobooks to practice
your listening and pronunciation so you
can listen to a book whilst reading it
and that’s an amazing way of creating
your own listening exercise that you are
really interested in honestly there are
so many options self-help fiction
nonfiction stories I’ve also left some
links to books that I recommend you
listen to there’s the Harry Potter
collection read by Stephen Fry there’s
Sherlock there’s a Curious Incident of
the dog in the night-time I can’t
remember if I’ve said that title
correctly but it’s a fantastic book and
a fantastic Broadway show in London
and that one’s particularly good because
it’s written from the point of view of
an autistic boy in the first person so
it’s very good if you want to listen to
somebody telling a story in first person
so that you can then practice your
storytelling and the language is ever so
slightly more simple so that’s a really
good recommendation there it’s down in
the description below you don’t pick
anything for the first month and if you
don’t like it you can cancel it right
let’s get started with the love and
romance idioms the first one is a match
made in heaven a match made in heaven
what do you think it means have a little
thing a match made in heaven is a couple
that is seemingly perfect they are a
perfect match the relationship is likely
to be very very successful they’re very
good for each other very good for each
other it’s what we all aspire to be with
our partners and match made in heaven
the next one number two is a double date
a double date and you go on a double
date what do you think it is a double
date is a date involving two couples so
if you and your partner go on a date or
out for dinner or to the cinema with
another friend and their partner that’s
a double date
it’s a really nice thing to do okay the
next one number three is to be an item
to be an item sounds really obvious of
course I’m an item I’m an object don’t
treat me as an object don’t treat me as
an object to be an item means that
you’re involved with someone so it might
be used in a situation like a YouTube an
item are you two official yet do you
really boyfriend and girlfriend or
boyfriend a boyfriend or girlfriend
girlfriend or whatever and you’d say
yeah we’re an item there’s a nice one
quick clang number four you might have
heard this before it is to be head over
heels in love and this just means to be
really really in love with someone and
you can also fall head-over-heels in
love I fell head
in love with him number five is to pop
the question to pop the question I’ve
never had anyone pop the question to me
in person I’ve had a couple of email
questions and butler pop the question is
to ask for somebody’s hand in marriage
it means to ask somebody if they would
like to be your husband or wife and then
number six after popping the question
you then hopefully tie the knot to tie
the knot and to tie the knot is to get
married so my mum and dad
tied the knot 27 years ago oh my god the
next one puppy love
oh my god this one is so cute and for my
entire childhood I thought that this was
just that you love baby dogs but it’s
not puppy lug popular puppy love is
adolescent romance you’re a teenager
you’re young and you feel like the most
important most in love most romantic
person in the world with your boyfriend
or girlfriend and no nothing else
matters all that matters is your love
for that person as puppy love because
it’s not necessarily not gonna stay real
because feelings can feel really really
strong especially when you’re young but
it’s not maybe the most logical thing on
earth the next one number eight a blind
date a blind date what is a blind date
now it could be a date that can’t see
but not in a in an idiomatic sense it’s
a blind date is when somebody else
chooses somebody for you and set you up
and somebody sets you up a good phrasal
verb to set up they set you up on a date
with somebody that you don’t know and so
you both arrive at this date and it’s
the first time you’ve met each other so
that’s a blind date it can be quite a
risky thing to leave your love life in
the hands of somebody else number nine
to be on the rocks to be on the rocks
this one’s not so nice if your
relationship is on the rocks it means
there’s problems with the relationship
and you might break up soon it’s not
going well so you definitely don’t want
your relationship to be on the rocks but
if
is on the rocks then hopefully you’ll be
able to sort it out
another good phrasal verb bear sort it
out and fix the problem and the final
one to get hitched to get hitched to get
hips is exactly the same as to tie the
knot it means to get married right guys
that’s it for today’s lesson don’t
forget to sign up for your free trial at
audible.com the link is in the
description box also don’t forget to
connect with me on all of my social
media I’ve got my facebook my Instagram
and my Twitter and my PA box as well so
you guys can send me letters because I
know a couple of you have been asking if
you can send me a card for my birthday
and yes you can you don’t have to that
is so kind
my birthday’s the tenth of June that’s
my table if you want to send me a card
that would be lovely and I always make
an effort to reply to anybody he sends
me letters at present I hope you enjoyed
the lesson I hope you learned something
I will see you very very soon for
another one
[Music]
[Music]