English Idiom Practice It Didnt Cross My Mind
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm it didn’t cross my mind did
it cross your mind let’s talk about it
in today’s video lesson we’re going to
talk about an expression eat didn’t
cross my mind
let’s first break down this into
individual words and then let’s talk
about the meaning as a whole I have a
little story that I’d like to share with
you that goes with this expression but
first of all let’s talk about each word
let’s actually start at the end of this
expression and start talking about that
word the word mind mind if we say my
mind what does that mean what is my mind
talking about your brain your mind the
place where you think so when we say my
mind it’s what’s inside your head
what about didn’t cross didn’t cross you
might know the expression to cross the
street it means to go across the street
to cross the street and in this way we
can use cross to mean something a little
more mental not quite so physical to say
an idea an idea crossed my mind it means
it came into my mind I had some idea but
it didn’t cross my mind I mean it didn’t
come into my mind this idea didn’t cross
my mind I didn’t think about it I never
even imagined it didn’t cross my mind
I’d like to tell you a little story so
that you can understand this expression
in a broader context and also hopefully
this story will help you to not forget
this expression didn’t cross my mind
well a couple weeks ago my husband’s
work place he works at a chocolate shop
they had a big
New Year’s party and it was for
employees and employees families and
friends so there were a lot of people
there and at the New Year’s party the
owners of the chocolate shop gave all
the employees a special present they
gave them this bag this bag and as you
might see there are a lot of different
desserts on this bag there are cakes
chocolate strawberries little chocolate
truffles there is a wide variety here
Wow when someone who works at the
chocolate shop was looking online trying
to find some tights tights are kind of
like pants usually girls wear them
underneath a skirt or a dress so that
there is something warm covering her
legs she was going online to buy some
tights and she found this pattern on the
Internet
and she thought that’s really cute I’m
gonna buy it
and I liked it a lot so she bought the
tights with this pattern kind of desert
pattern and when she wore these types to
work she works at the chocolate shop
with my husband when she wore those
tights the other employees looked at
them and thought huh that looks really
familiar
why did your why do your tights look so
familiar and do you know what this
pattern the person who made this pattern
went to their chocolate shop and the
creator was inspired by their chocolate
and by their desserts and she made this
pattern based on their shop so each of
these desserts this color design light
blue and brown and each of these is to
say
as the chocolate shop where my husband
works so the girl who bought the tights
with this pattern she had no idea that
it was really inspired by her workplace
so we could say it didn’t cross her mind
that the same pattern was inspired by
her workplace she just thought it was a
cute design and wanted to buy it but in
reality she contacted the creator and
they said oh yes I visited your city I
went to the chocolate shop and I thought
it was so cute that I wanted to make a
design based on your chocolate so the
person who bought this design she bought
the tights we could say it didn’t cross
her mind that it was based on her
workplace she didn’t even think about it
it didn’t cross her mind so at the New
Year’s party the owners of the chocolate
shop bought bags with this design for
all of the employees it was so nice and
because my husband is an employee I also
get to use this bag but for the girl who
bought the tights originally it didn’t
cross her mind that this was actually
her workplace so do you see from this
story that we can use this expression to
mean I had no idea I never even thought
about it
I just liked the pattern and I didn’t
know it was actually from my workplace
before we go I wouldn’t give you a
couple other sample sentences so that
when we finish you can write your own
sample sentence in the comments you
could say it didn’t cross my mind that
English could be fun I always thought it
might be boring or just memorizing list
of vocabulary it didn’t cross my mind
that English could be fun and then I
went online and started learning English
and it was actually fun but at the
beginning you didn’t even think about it
it wasn’t a possibility the English
could be fun it didn’t cross my mind or
let’s say that maybe you got a new puppy
and you’re so excited to share pictures
of the puppy and just share how cute
your new puppy is so when you see your
friend you show her pictures you talk
about how cute your puppy is and then
your friends face looks kind of sad and
you don’t really know why and then you
realize oh yes last week her all dog
died I completely forgot well in this
situation maybe you did something a
little rude so you could say it didn’t
cross my mind that what I said was rude
it didn’t cross my mind that she might
be sad you didn’t even think about it
you were thinking about your new cute
puppy so this is something that you
might use in a situation where you just
didn’t realize that you were being rude
it didn’t cross my mind that my sentence
might be rude but now I know so I’m
going to try to be more polite you can
use this in a lot of situations so now I
have a challenge for you in the comments
below this video can you make your own
sentence using this expression it didn’t
cross my mind it didn’t cross my mind
let’s read the comments together and
learn from each other sentences I can’t
wait to see yours and I’ll talk to you
later
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