American English Idiom Challenge Results
it’s a cold rainy day here in Chile that
means it’s the perfect time for me to
curl up and binge watch your videos
a couple of weeks ago I made a video
asking you to teach an idiom send me the
video and I would share it with
everybody so we can all learn more
American English idioms and you guys did
a wonderful wonderful job I had so much
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okay thanks hi guys I’m lying I’m from
Vietnam I’ll talk about an idea about
town
cuz I was very lazy in the past so I
don’t speak English well sometimes I
wish I could turn back the hands of time
to learn English early but you know it’s
possible and now I’m learning English
happily for anything thank for your
watching hi everyone I’m Little Pill
from Italian idiom that I’m going to
tell is all ears the meaning is very
excited to hear something or paying
special attention to listen something
example the students were all ears when
teachers started telling a horror story
thank you
and bye hi Rachel
this is on I’ll do from some Paulo
Brazil this is my first challenge the
idiom of chosen is piece of cake which
means something very easy to do
so someone would ask me is English hard
to learn I’d say no not at all
now the YouTube content we have today
such as Rachel’s English
it’s piece of cake that’s it bye hey
what’s up my name is deborah schiraldi
and i am from india my first idiom is
stick the Lord it means to put God in
the first place
I love is it from the Bible and the
second a second idea is heat the books
it means to study books Thank You Rachel
good bye hands down hands down which
means it is a sure thing it will
definitely happen I’ll give you an
example
hey Jennifer you study so hard you’re
gonna pass the final exam
hands down how you Jennifer - said it
was so hard you’re gonna improve your
English hands down hands down sure thing
going to happen got it bye hi there
today you will learn to idiom we can use
it in our life give me a break
I’ll give you a break give me a break or
I’ll give you a break let me give you a
new chance for example please give me a
break
its meaning give me a new chance okay
easy it’s a piece of cake okay everyone
this is Ric and from Rachel’s Academy
and the first expression is to drop the
ball to fail to make a mistake Frank
example will rely on you this time don’t
drop the ball I don’t know what’s
happened but every time that I depend on
you you drop the ball the second one
preaching to the choir
is when you try to convince someone
about something that I already believe
or support for example hey do you know
that teacher Rachel she’s a really good
teacher yeah bro you’re just preaching
to the choir hi Rachel I’m really
appreciating you for teaching me a lot
and I want to say thank you for
everything you the at my idiom is don’t
cry over spilt milk
when you can be learned about a loss
from the past for example while exercise
does the result have not been as good as
you accepted you should now focus on
moving ahead and achieving better
results this is the time there is no use
crying over spilt milk
thank you for every single action I am
really really appreciate that goodbye
hi Rachel I am Viviana and the first CD
my thought when you asked for one was
hold your horses
I remember this idiom because an English
teacher asked me for it during a test
and in fact I didn’t know the meaning
but anyway I couldn’t really know what
it meant
unfortunately I wasn’t wrong when
someone says to you
hold your horses it means that you’re
coming with a lot of energy force or
they’re being very impatient or
impatience so in this context hold your
horses
means calm down stop take it easy
bye hi guys hi Rachel I’m Andrea from
Brazil and my favorite idiom is piece of
cake
this of cake means that something is
really easy okay
so let’s give an example example of
piece of cake and cookie in Varadero is
a piece of cake dough no brigadeiro
answer the Brazilian search made of
condensed milk
chocolate and butter so cookie
brigadiere is really easy it’s a piece
of cake I’m gonna let the recipe below
for the ones that are materials and
interested in cooking it and I hope it
you’ll enjoy it if they are delicious
bye hello everyone hello Rachel I am
here with my niece my younger sisters
daughter she’s called son I have heard
of the talent you are lunch and the item
I’ve chosen to talk about is had the
blessing in disguise
so a blessing in disgust is something
bad happening to you and then it turns
our tongue shows up later on that it is
a good thing like so one who lost his
job and then afterwards he realized that
it is a good thing maybe afterwards he
gets a new job and then st. his friends
you could say me losing my job is a
blessing blessing in disguise
and that’s it bye-bye what do you I say
one of Russian idioms when fried
backs what do you guys think it means in
America has the same medium but just
sounds different when pigs fly this
means as you know mmm
impossible highly unlikely to happen
for example teenager girl mom can I go
to the dance with my new boyfriend mom
how old is he
teenager girl 25 mom sure we can go when
pigs fly
funny Liam hi my name is Tawfik I am
from Yemen as usual when rich allah put
a video and the video challenge and i
wait until the weekend to make my video
so today i decide to choose an idiom
that related to work setting for example
if you are with your team or coworker
you have you have the project or
something and you are late you can find
the next
for example you can see I don’t think
everybody in our team is pulling their
weight pulling their weight this is the
idiom that I choose I decide chose for
today why
hi I’m Chacon a copywriter from Mumbai
India
the idiom which I picked today has to
put the cat among the pigeons
I found this idiom on a newspaper
headline once and I thought it was
interesting we use this idiom when
someone says something that causes
trouble for other people and make them
angry my example sentence is sometimes
President clown really put the cat among
the pigeons by making weird statements
in public I hope you find this medium
useful and I would like to thank Rachel
for this opportunity thanks hi Rachel
insurance from India and my idiom would
be the bang for the buck
now before I reveal the context there we
use this idiom
I meant I’m a youtuber from India I run
a small technical channel called a share
of the geek on YouTube now we use the
idiom all the time does idiom indicates
value for money for example a context
would be like this I bought a smartphone
that is bang for the buck which means
that it’s giving more features at a
reasonable front price so the simple
meaning is edits it’s cost-effective and
it offers the particular features of
value for money and bang for the buck
adapt show us similarities and big
things durational for conducting this
challenge of teaching somebody thank you
I know one of my favorite idioms that
have learned since I came to the United
States is my two cents and this this is
used basically whenever you are
expressing an opinion or statement and
you want to show politeness and humility
so you express your statement and you
ended up with my two cents I’ve learned
this from Michael
at work and since then I’ve become using
it whenever I’m with a group of people
and I expressed a statement or an
opinion so I invite you as well to start
using it my two cents
thank you rich it is a hidden sugars in
accion okay this means that rich with
the other thank you for watching thank
you so much hi
we are million a medium we are going
display a medium that is an apple a day
keeps a doctor away
that in Spanish means a nominal dia in
Bihar dr. Allen this idiom refers to eat
healthy and in you infancy given her
sense of problems and this idiom is an
also deadly ten minded people used to
believe we think that is a false me
because you have to combine it with
doing exercise and exercises you’re
going to a because you have to study to
arm it’s not just your way of eating a
were a food makes your type of life and
that’s hello everyone my name is Paul
and I’m from Vietnam today we gonna
learn the idiom to be out honestly you
can use this idiom when
and talked about someone you want to
date but that person is generally
considered superior to you in some way
maybe more successful more popular
modern touching wealthier so you can say
she’s out of my league or he is our
roommate
let’s see this idiom in a context you
remember the girl I met last night at
the bar yeah so you have to have to know
no I know you’re good at this
you know what she’s trans Dora dude
forget it
just wait out of the league yeah I know
hi guys and hello Rachel how’s it going
I’m Jana Concetta from Indonesia and
today I want to teach you about an
American English idiom phrase phase
through the news to be honest I love
this item so much because I think this
idiom is so unique and so funny
it doesn’t mean you pay for something
you buy through your nose but it means
to pay too much money for something for
example I can get pretty good meals on
airplanes but I’m going to pay through
the nose for it makes sense okay I think
it’s enough for today thank you for
watching and bye for now
bye Rachel hey guys I’m Molly from China
today I’m gonna share with you a car
related area here’s the conversation did
you hear some screaming at the new guy
yesterday yes how can I not hear it yes
I always thought Sam was so nice and so
kind I had a tube but then yesterday he
blew it up when I asked
therapist very simple question yes I
think our friend Zack is starting to
show his true colors and I think someone
shows their true colors means they wanna
show real self to others and what is
revealed is you’re really not so good
thank you hello everyone
hey Rachel my name is zoldak and I am
from Germany the idiom I chose is let
the cat out of the bag so the reason why
I chose this idiom is that it reminds me
of a very nice experience I had when I
was little
well I’m a huge fan of animals and
particularly cats since childhood I
always wanted to get one so on my 11th
birthday and expectedly my dear brother
opened the gift he got me and literally
cat walked out of it it was a very fat
cute
Siamese kitten that lived with us for
many many years so yeah that was it he
let the cat out of the bag really well
thank you bye-bye
so the phrase that I would like to teach
you now is get over somebody so that
phrase means like when you broke up with
the person that you had relationship
before and when you feel like really
devastated and you are upset in general
you have not gotten over that person or
over that relationship yet but after you
have gotten over this person or over
that relationship you kind of you’re not
affected by it anymore and you feel like
you are finally free so there are some
songs actually there’s a one song that
is very popular and that has used this
phrase and I’m gonna
put it like right here so yeah my face
was to get over somebody and I hope you
will never forget this phrase again
goodbye hello everyone this is Lynn in
this video I would like to share an
idiom with you guys is from a song that
I’ve been listening to recently the song
is called have Williams say the past by
one of my favorite folk singer car
Clarke seeing the very last part of that
song guys something like unless you’ve
never made any mistakes in your life
be careful the the stones that you throw
I think that one is pretty
straightforward and easy to understand
means unless you’re as perfect as a
sense you’ll only meet others and jochem
harshly based on things that you don’t
like all right that’s just wrong yeah
that’s one medium I would like to share
see you in my next video
hi guys hi Rachel hi I’m Anna
hi max Rachel thank you so much for this
opportunity because I’m your biggest fan
and I lose a minute talk it out we are
okay yeah you’re twins
anyway spring is in full swing but look
what’s going on it’s a real disaster
it’s snowing and everyone is under the
weather because yeah but let us cut to
the chase so the idiom I want to present
today is to be snowed under
what is it well it’s fine you got so
much to do again too much work and
you’re super busy and this is how you
can use it if you like tonight well I’m
totally snowed under got too much work
I’m sorry alright so thank you very much
and I hope you’ve enjoyed our video
thank you today I’m going to use you two
very common is that only one of my
favourite unions and I’m using the load
in my daily life a piece of cake yes I
have a sweet tooth so I’m really into it
next if something is a piece of cake
it is super easy and simple to do this
is some examples one the exam was a
piece of cake she loved ten out of ten
- you don’t everything staying abroad is
a piece of thing you have to read away
from home and we’re really hard to get
one box
three the interview with the American
manager will be a piece of cake because
your English is great sir we just got
through three examples using the piece
okay learning this idiom is a piece of
cake isn’t it
thank you for watching goodbye I’ll see
you hi guys my solution a speaking and I
want to talk about an interesting and
different challenge in which Rachel from
Rachel’s English comm encourages us to
make a short video teaching an American
English medium and the idiom for today
is keep an eye on and it means
watch carefully if you keep an eye on
something or someone you watch them
carefully so that everything’s okay for
example to make just to make sure they
are safe and are not causing any trouble
you know and bringing it to my reality
I’m a security guard in a store actually
in a mall aware of work at the small as
you can see and my job is to keep an eye
on customers and employees and that’s
what a different name thank you so much
idiot for watching this video I really
appreciate it thank you hi my name is
Rodney I’m gonna follow up on Rachel’s
email where she encourage our students
to upload a video about American idioms
and teach how to use them how to process
or not teach you today how to what does
it mean drop the ball and in which
context they can say it’s a flat people
basically means that when you wanna make
some kind of mistake so it’s like you
know you talk to somebody and let’s say
we had an agency to create a website or
something but they didn’t do the I don’t
know the menu correctly so Jay they
dropped the ball on this one
so that’s how I say it and you know it’s
kind of when I first heard that they was
like drop the ball what kind of job look
on both should be trouble you know yes I
it sounds really funny but you know it’s
a it’s a thing so you might hear it
quite frequently so I hope that was
helpful
hey my name is luckily this follow-up on
Rachel’s email and hope you find this
useful and I wish you a wonderful day
thank you invite
hi Rachel hi everyone this is were from
Vietnam and happy to be here to share
with the et ammonite most well the first
time Harbhajan was pinellas in the song
one more night my mother five something
like across my heart had to die but I
didn’t know what it’s men I wonder what
I went to White House today why he was
today and I didn’t look it up and the
day after on the conversation with my
friend for Australia Carmichael it
something in his cell across my hand
hearted guy I’m like can you really be
like server a half of yesterday but I
didn’t understand the place is friends
to me he told that he was telling the
truth he didn’t lie so Udi’s 21 the
child that you’re telling the truth you
tell lie he produced the idiom eiffel
resemble when it’s just something with
your girlfriend but I see she doesn’t
believe you can say across my heart how
to die first guys I hope I even do
something useful
so take care bye bye for now hi everyone
this is lemon today I will tell you what
is an idiom and meridiem and in the
meaning of it
and a sentence for okay what is an idiom
a whole idiom it is a group of words in
a fixed order that give you a particular
meaning and strangely if you try to
correct if you try to translate it a
weird word it will give you another
minute
an idiom about almost honor Kelly met
330 million will now test it down -
Thomas - mo now in the house it’ll give
okey-dokey llama but boots Mac and a
Dementor Nalanda I would hand out of
hand carry it out of hand
it means you lose control of something
yeah but if it’s not an achievement
my gum wrapped right now and my sentence
fails let’s say in the end of the term
in the end of the term students get out
of hand
in the end of the term students get out
of hand fin height alarm the Taliban
takabbara sorta that’s all thanks
good afternoon Rachel good afternoon
ridiculous English economy my name is
Lisa Gonzalez I’m from Miami Florida and
the idiom that I would like to teach
today is to be on the same boat
normally we use this idiom playing a
group of people are facing the same
problem when they are dealing with the
same type of situations for example
right now I go into the school in order
to to go to the knowledge to get a
working certification as I go to the
school I have another friends that I go
into the school with me so we are all
strolling in what they they get the same
skills so we are trying when we’re
dealing with the same with the same test
we are we’re taking classes with the
same teacher so in this case we are all
on the same boat we are facing the same
kind of problems okay I say hi everybody
and curly and I go into the Rachel’s
challenge so I’m going to talk to you
about idioms what is an idiom idiom
exist in every language an idiom is a
commonly used phrase whose meaning of
its Wars is meticulous really it’s a
group of words establish it by users
that’s it examples first example he
behaved or hit the sack you use this
expression when you go to bed when you
think it’s time to go to sleep for
example you can say Slade I am going to
hit the sack or I am drowsy I am going
to hit the head the second expression is
keep on iron by the way I’d keep an eye
on those kids afire you
keep on iron this expression means to
watch something or someone or they
inform it about the person’s behavior
especially to keep someone out of
trouble for example you can say keep an
eye on your sister will I take a shower
work samples were taken from movies I
think the movies are one of the best way
to learn English I hope this video hi
folks my name is marcin I’m from Poland
and I was looking for some burritos and
I found two first is straight from the
horse’s mouth it’s mean to know some
fact so true or a secret from a person
who is a specialist in specialists in
his spirit and who really know what’s
going on an example what was the due
date to send videos for the latest
Rachel’s Challenge and the answer is of
course at the 6th of April I heard it
straight from the horse’s mouth and
second idiom or golden handshake
golden handshake is a payment offered to
an employee to induce an employee to
retire early or it’s a formal reward
reward for special special achievements
at work or it’s a form of its other
special religious and short example I
would like to get a golden handshake
that’s all thanks hello everybody
he read my idiom every cloud has a
silver lining
why when we look more closely at the age
of a big cloud we can see the sun
shining there like a silver lining young
Milt Okun did phrasing comes a must
presented at a la douleur castle
16:34 did fresh have been used in this
forum another forum since the mid
eighteen hundreds for most coming the
meaning of this freezer first there is
something good in every scene that bad
second every negative appearance has a
positive aspect for every difficult or
unpleasant situation has an advantage
and for some benefit can always be
derive from a bad thing that happened
this proverb is usually said as an
encouragement to a person who is
overcome by some difficulty and internal
to see positive way forward one example
of its uses I found a new job after
loosing my last one and I like this more
you see every cloud does have a silver
lining that’s it thank you so much for
watching my video
see you later hello Richard hello
everyone so now I’m going to talk about
like to teach an American idiom as per
Rachel’s
I request so talking about my favorite
American idiom so I have a long list but
now I chose only one which I I think it
is very interesting since I averted in
American series several times which is
water under the bridge
so I think it is informal and it is used
to talk about past event that should be
forgotten like especially in the case
when like something has done or problems
that happened in the past and should be
forgotten because you cannot change them
and it is too late to change or even
talk about them so hopefully I like I
teach it very well and thank you so much
for watching my video thanks so much for
ritual and see you in the next video
challenge bye for now
heroin my name is Leigh and come from
China I’m a software developer and today
I’m going to attended rituals with video
challenge that teach our American idiom
actually I know nothing about American
idiom before but this morning I heard
one let me show you the simple sentence
because you need to have two checks and
balances you need to tell yourself like
I’m doing a good job and you also need
to tell yourself like you’re not doing
good job enough in this sentence there’s
a idiom checks and balances usually this
you see use about a garment to say that
one person can have all the power there
need to be a Congress to have the
garment to be balanced but in this
sentence is usage to talk about learning
something new I have to say I’m really
shocked that when I check it means by
Google I can’t beat him either at all
but at first time I heard it I think
it’s about a bank since the word check
means an oath for bank right and the
balance is for you bank account balance
so I thought a sentence means you should
work hard and then you will get money
more money okay that’s all for my video
and I hope you liked it
correct me if I’m wrong in any part of
my video thanks bye Rachel Rachel fans
this is Lisa game and I’m here today
because I want to participate in the
challenge you gave to us Rachel but
before talking about that idiom you
asked us about I want to show you a
couple of frames I have they are first
of all laying leg is my cat but my male
cat and the other one I want to show you
is mashita mashita is my female cat here
it is mashita okay I’m showing laying a
mashita to you Rachel and Rachel fans
because I want to talk about this idiom
raining cats and dogs okay and by the
way it is just about to rain right here
in my little pod in my city it is
breathing a lot as you can see okay they
the leaves of the plants are moving a
lot because it is going to rain in a cup
in a few minutes so hey I’m gonna give
you the example yesterday I was invited
by my friends to play soccer but
unfortunately I couldn’t do it because
it was raining cats and dogs so sorry so
much next time will be the chance okay
Rachel so this is this is all I wanted
to participate in the challenge today
and this was my idiom it’s raining cats
and dogs
okay Rachel Rachel fans it was nice to
talk to you again see you around my
friends hello everybody better another
skier I love idioms items are my cup of
tea because they are spoken in daily
English out there and I have a lot of
them under my belt few months ago I
learned 300 of them just on 30 days I
already knew a lot of them but there
were a lot of them that I didn’t know so
I thought I was biting off more than I
could chew but actually it was very nice
that I learned a lot of them and I wanna
say the last idiom I have learned which
is to egg on and I learned this idiom
from CNN well under some Cooper wasn’t a
beaver and the First Lady Melania Trump
she told him that someone was egging on
Donald Trump her husband to do something
silly so to add on basically means to
urge or bear someone to continue doing
something as something unwise or to
provoke someone to do something so
that’s it and I’m looking forward to see
your idioms to learn from them
thank you so much for watching bye oh my
what’s up I’m good
how about you good
so my favorite video is train were
trying out the same ringing - I’m tired
so for example it’s been a wrong guy
I’ve joined out you do I know you should
call it down go home and do I know I’m
having her child focusing I’m physically
and mentally drained out I’ve been
walking tower shred I am dry God hey the
reason why are like this yo is my walk
has been very hectic so I’m always going
out that’s it
thank you hi man
my name’s Sachin and I’d like I think
you’ve brought the things you have done
for us now let’s talk about an idiom
today I’m going to talk about once in a
blue moon so it may sounds unfamiliar
but hopefully it won’t after I give you
examples so consider that your friends
asked you when was the last time you
made out you say once in a blue moon
now what simple means that
rarely perhaps you do like eating out
but because of circumstances or having
no time you cannot eat out
moving on second example there are some
people you can meet them every day such
as your family or friends or your
colleague on the other hand there are
some people you don’t know who meet them
it’s rare to meet them so for example
you meet your uncle Theodore every day
at nine o’clock on the other hand you
meet sure spend Janus once in a blue
moon
so once the balloon means that rarely
you can meet your friend almost never
you can meet your friend so that’s it
for now and I’m honored to be part of
your challenge video until next time
please take care of yourself and thanks
hello everyone my name is Walter today I
want of Sarah and in the mo video the
idiom is butterflies installment that’s
a this idiom expresses a feeling of
nervousness when you feel nervous or
extras about something maybe you can
this EPM let me give you an example
mmm so when when you make your speech in
front of many people
you always get nervous so you can say
when I make a speech in public I always
get butterflies in my stomach it means
when you make us pizza you publicly you
always feel nervous
actors maybe your heart beats quickly
than gyro
oh if you have a test you always you’ll
wonder if you can pass the test so you
maybe
always get nervous about the test so you
also you can say before a test I always
get those throw butterflies in my
stomach
hmm that’s a thank you so much Richards
English hello guys my name is bismillah
I’m living in Sweden today I’m going to
teach you an English idiom sometimes
people say to hit the books now
literally to hit the books means to
physically punch or slap you’re reading
books
what an idiom it means it’s the way of
telling your friend that you have a lot
of study to do it’s a very common idiom
in America especially among student
students and as I said it’s the way of
telling your friend that you have a lot
of study to do now for example if your
friend asked you to go to a movie or
watch again together tonight so if you
can’t go because you have to study
before a huge exam or test so you can
say that I’m sorry I have to hit the
books it means you have to study before
a huge exam or test that you have if the
next day or the next week in any subject
so yeah to hit the books means that you
have a lot of study to do
so that’s all thank you for using
Rachel’s English
today I’m going to talk about my
favorite idiom in English rome wasn’t
built in a day
rome wasn’t built in a day means that
important things always take time to be
completed or achieved you can use this
idiom to encourage or motivate someone
who has lost their faith or who is
disappointed because of some failures in
life I say this to myself every day rome
wasn’t built in a day and they failed
this time I made fair several times
so what rome wasn’t built in a day if
you want to achieve something if you
want to be successful you need to keep
faith you need to be patient everything
takes time
ok now let’s listen to some examples of
this idiom
and some growth is always better than no
growth over the course of my life you
know I probably can’t count the amount
of times I’ve said the phrase rome
wasn’t built in a day but we tell our
kids all the time rome wasn’t built in a
day everybody’s heard that rome wasn’t
built in a day
Rome was built daily they didn’t stop
they worked every day to get 1% better
in some way every day and that’s what we
challenged our kids to do I feel like
rome wasn’t built in a day and I know
that everybody’s really impatient but I
know that with time things can be turned
around that’s all for today guys I hope
you know how I’m going to use this idiom
to motivate yourself and others it’s
Jaidyn from happy life English saying hi
Rachel my name is Mary Sarah and I am
from Honduras today’s lesson is about
EDNOS idioms are figurative expressions
they mean something different and a
literal meaning learning to use common
expressions and helium’s will make your
English sound more nail
we have an example hit the books
word by word it means that you are going
to eat physically the books but the real
meaning is that you are going to study
get prepared like for example a final
test English test and you need to be
prepared in order to get good grades you
have here we have some sentences it’s
time to turn off the computer to hit the
books
please mean that you need to stop
working on that computer and start
studying I’m going to hit the books once
she comes here I’m telling everyone that
I’m going to start studying once my
friend arrives until that time I’m gonna
do something else here another phrases
piece of cake this means something was
easy or simple pulling my leg this means
that someone is trying to fool me this
is all for today
thank you for your attention bye hi
Rachel first of all I have to say thank
you because your channel helped me a lot
and I just started learning English
that’s a year so it’s my first time to
send this video to you I mean it’s my
first time to send a video to you so I
really want to show my appreciation to
you so you can call this part of the
gate because I think I’m too talkative
and right helium right I learned this
idiom from your video I remember you
were with a guy who I forgot his name
I’m sorry but you were you two were
talking about
how to build Compton’s in English or how
to learn English faster no things like
that and he’s also an English teacher
over his running his own channel I’m not
sure but and when he said he said we
should set a realistic goal and we
should put our eyes on the goal and our
feet on the ground
and I was like oh my god this sentence
is so great because it’s so true
it totally related to my life so my
example sentence is we should put our
feet on the ground and in order to make
our dreams come true
and I wish all the best to you guys and
Rachel I’m looking forward to your
future awesome videos please make more
and you did there more and more
subscribers thank you
hi Rachel its Sergio I’m 21 years old
I’m from Colombia and I have to say I’m
pretty excited about this video and I’m
very grateful to you for everything I’ve
learned on Rachel’s English okay the
idiom I’m gonna talk about I heard it
for the first time on Ellen and it’s
very fun I had no idea what it meant
until now I found out it has two
meanings
number one not taking things seriously
for example I’m working with some
friends on a project and one of my
friends is doing
nathan is joking is laughing so I tell
him hey quit fooling around and help us
with the project number two it has a
kind of sexual connotation for example
I’m telling my friends last night
Shannon and I
fold around which means we were kissing
and also doesn’t necessarily mean that
we have an official relationship so I’m
done with my idiom I hope you’ve enjoyed
it as much as I have and thank you so
much and reach out these message goals
for you if there is any suggestion from
you to me about my pronunciation I’d be
really grateful because I’m trying to
work every day of my pronunciation and
I’ve watched all of your videos and I
love the way it’s playing things I think
it’s awesome thank you for everything
and I hope your answer hey guys it’s
Kate the expression that I wanted to
share with you today is to be packed
like sardines and that’s because I often
think of this expression when I go back
home after work so if you open a can of
sardines you can see that those little
fish there are pretty much squashed
inside there are so many that there’s
hardly any space between them and that’s
exactly how it feels to be on a bus at
rush hour people are in a hurry to get
on someone is just squeezing themselves
in so you find yourself in a real
uncomfortable situation where you can
barely move there’s some pushing and
shoving just people are leaning against
you an absolute nightmare it makes me
hate public transport at times but as
far as I know this can also be used to
scribe any crowded place like if you are
at a concert of some famous music band
or singer you may be surrounded by a
crowd of screaming fans
no matter where you look they’re
everywhere so in this case the idiom to
be packed like sardines may also be
appropriate I’m not sure how often
Americans use it on an everyday basis in
their conversation but personally I like
this expression because it’s really
descriptive and visual and it makes me
think how many people there are on the
face of the earth well that’s it thanks
for watching and I’ll see you next time
Wow hi Rachel my greetings you and every
one of your fans
this is Muhammad acid from media in
response your video challenge of
teaching an English idiom white elephant
yes white elephant easy idiom and
teaching 908 elephant is something that
causes you too much too much safer than
money yet you can get anything out of it
it gives you nothing this project is a
white elephant or company you can get
any profits out where once there was a
king Ganesha when this King got angry at
someone of his friends he goes Freeman
says this white elephant is a most dear
to my heart you can take it as a present
but remember it’s very dear to me
so you must take good care of him and
never let him work for you and it won’t
be long before the person realizes how
heavy disparity nice this where this
idiom came from I read this in O Ald one
of Oxford’s advanc’d dictionaries
rabbika I’m leaving you you always take
and you have nothing to give all my left
you and all our relationship
has been a white elephant and will
always be this is another example to
explain the same thing finally I hope
you wouldn’t find this video as a white
elephant and I hope it wasn’t feed on
your time
speaking of time oh I must be going now
do you know who’s waiting for me to feed
my telephone hey hello Rachel I’m here
I’m from Egypt and I want to share with
you that the idioms that I love or I
like most in Americans first one is what
that catch like I always say to people
when they for example and there is
iPhone X but it costs $100 so but what
they catch so the meaning of it it’s
like sorry I have a cough
like for example yes - x - X it costs
every one one seven $1,000 so if someone
told me white one hundred dollars oh
what a catch maybe it has some dissident
it is advantageous maybe it’s not real
maybe they are playing on me or cheating
me so what the catch
and that’s a catch like for example
there is two phones they are I 4x2 and
they are everywhere in post $1000 for
the one now - so it’s $2,000 now they
made an offer or a challenge who well
with this change he will take two
iPhones and buy by 100 by $1000 so it’s
a catch so that’s a catch I guess a good
thing to have that’s you you mate you
need a good thing that’s a kill that’s
it I all want to be with you reach oh
and don’t you teach me a lot of things
and I don’t know what to say but we are
Egyptian Sverre all of you and thank you
for everything that’s all I wanted to
say and bye
hello everyone my name is Sam and I’m
gonna tell you about five Gideon so
let’s get started
EDM number one to shoot the priests to
shoot the priests means having an
informal conversation when you aren’t
talked seriously you can say that we
just shortened the priests so to show
the priests means to have or having an
informal conversation item number two to
take a rain check
to take a rain check to politely refuse
and offer when your friend is telling
you to go out to have some coffee or
doing something and you want to pull
lightly refuse his offer you can say I’m
sorry I’ll take a rain check this time
so to take a rain check means to
politely refuse and offer an idiom
number three it’s just one word it’s
called Johnson so Johnson means to have
a strong
need or a strong craving to port for
something like an example you can say I
woke up this morning and you really was
jonesing for some coffee
so John seemed to have a strong need or
craving for something and idiom number
four to go the extra mile to go the
extra mile means not only are doing the
job or tasks are required from you but
also you are doing an extra effort maybe
we can say an example like we all love
our teacher Rachel because she always
goes the extra mile helping us learning
English very well and also we can see
another example like if you want to be
noticed at work you’d better go the
extra mile so good to go the extra mile
to do an extra effort and idiom number
five and the last one it’s called John
Hancock John Hancock like your signature
if you want to ask your manager about
his signature you can say please I need
your John Hancock on these creditors so
John Hancock equals signature and at
last I want to thank you very much
rich hello guys in today’s video I’m
gonna teach three idioms which are
spoken in American English this is a
video challenge for the Rachel’s English
community but before I kick this I would
like to give a brief explanation of what
an idiom is an idiom or also called
idiomatic expression is an expression a
word or phrase that has a figurative
meaning and conventionally understood by
native speakers this meaning is
different from the literal meaning of
the idioms individual elements in other
words didn’t mean exactly what the words
say they have however a hidden meaning
now let’s dive into the first idiom to
be like a fish out of water what does it
mean when the way here this idiom we
think about is right but actually that
is not what it means
the real meaning of this idiom is to
feel awkward or uncomfortable usually in
a new situation sample sentence when
Carla transferred to a new school she
felt like a fish out of water because
she didn’t know anyone there now you
know what idiom to use if you are ever
in this kind of situation the second
idiom would be to be under the weather
can you be under the weather literally
really yes if you think about it
standing under the clouds rain and Sun
but it makes no sense if you’re feeling
under the weather you’re not your usual
self you could be feeling a little sick
the sick feeling is nothing serious
perhaps just extreme tiredness from
studying too much or having a bad
headache because you are starting to get
a whole sample dialog what’s wrong with
cari mom she’s feeling a little under
the weather so be quiet a little rest
alright the last idea I’m gonna share
with you guys is not my cup of tea
tea is a very common drink but not
everybody likes it if you say that
something is not my cup of tea
it’s a polite and diplomatic way to say
you don’t like it for example if your
colleague invites you to go see a horror
movie and you don’t enjoy horror movies
it’s more polite to say nothing
horror movies aren’t my cup of tea
instead of no I don’t like horror movies
if you didn’t know these idioms now you
do Rachel I hope you enjoyed this video
that’s it and thanks so much for
watching
hi everyone let me tell you how I went
turkey
went cold turkey on drinking coffee no
Turkey one of the most confusing English
idioms I’ve ever heard is the one to go
cold turkey or simply cold turkey first
time I heard it I had no idea what was
the meaning of this whole phrase and
what has Turkey to do was going
somewhere and why the turkey is cold
even though after I read information and
explanation and examples on the meaning
of this race I still couldn’t use it and
it was still difficult for me to
remember and even to recognize this rain
in someone’s speech in conversation
anyway I’ll try to explain this very
commonly used English idiom presently I
want an ago it was used to describe
quitting addiction such as drug
addiction nowadays it is used to
describe breaking a habit and it’s
usually a bad habit well it can be
related to a lot of people and to me as
well so I didn’t go cold turkey let’s
look at some to go cold turkey on
something that’s the actual phrase in
the best-case cold turkey is an adverb
and it means in a sudden and abrupt
manner in other words the idiom
emphasizes that we are quitting
acquitting a bad habit abruptly I went
cold turkey on drinking coffee it simply
means that I woke up yesterday and I
decided to stop drinking any kind of
coffee I could have switched to less
caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee but
I decided to stop it - to quit drinking
coffee just like immediately and
completely
I went cold turkey I’m drinking alcohol
on smokin cigarettes I’m playing video
games this place can also be used as a
noun
cold turkey as we know example I tried a
lot some ways to stop drinking alcohol
even call turkey call turkey without
medication is not a good idea of those
with serious medical condition I did not
go cold turkey I’m drinking coffee and
it’s not even coffee decaf coffee
everyone my friends see I was nuts nuts
me is crazy or polish another one I
thought that she was falling in love
with me to falling in love means to have
citroen feelings of liking a friend or
person in your family another one now I
have to pay him $2,000 to repair his car
but my friend Nina was a peach a peach
means you are wonderful and all have
full another one they used car I bought
for $300 was an imam and imam something
you buy that is defective or doesn’t
work well or breaks a lot usually
repairs to a car or truck another one a
week later she moved out moved out
community to her live their house or
flood when you live all the place where
you have your business another one
it was love at first it was love at
first sight love at first sight is the
experience of starting to be in love
with someone as soon as you see them for
the first time another one the owner of
the Cadillac
I hate went bananas when he saw the
damage to the front of his car went
bananas behaved in a slightly crazy or
City fashion another one starting the
engine of the car was a piece of cake a
piece of cake something that is easy to
do another one she said she was really
selling it for peanuts peanuts a very
small amount of money now another one we
we’re both very happy on meal plans to
settle down and get married the
following year means settle down when
someone settles down they start living a
quiet life in one place especially when
they get married or buy a house thank
you IBM’s getting into the rod boring
time getting into the rod really I’m
getting into the rod because of this
TOEFL preparation for a whole day
you
hello everybody how are you hope you’re
doing well today we’re gonna learn an
important idiom figure out this is going
to be presented to you by say
talk about the pronunciation of this
phrase T at the end of F is between two
vowels so you should pronounce it as a
flap T which is kind of like a quick D
sound so instead of saying it you should
say
t at the end of out is a stop T this
means that you should not pronounce t
fully there’s no puff of air at the end
of T so instead of saying out you should
say out
you
to pronounce for this phrase linked with
three words and pronounce them as one
word figure it out figure it out
figure it out
what does figure out mean figure out
means to find and understand something
or someone or find the solution to a
problem discover examples I can’t figure
out why he said that I can’t understand
why he said that I can’t figure him out
at all I can’t understand him at all
other examples can you figure out the
answer to question three find the
solution don’t worry we’ll figure it out
don’t worry we’ll find a way to solve
the problem I couldn’t figure out what
he was talking about I couldn’t
understand what he was talking about
well let’s say I just can’t figure out
how to girls can be so different be such
good friends well let’s say I just can’t
figure out how to girls can be so
different be such good friends well
let’s say I just can’t figure out how to
girls can be so different be such good
friends well let’s say I just can’t
figure out how to girls can be so
different be such good friends well
let’s say
how’d you figure it out how’d you figure
it out
how’d you figure it out how’d you figure
it out
how’d you
I can’t figure it out I can’t figure it
out I can’t figure it out I can’t figure
it out
thank you for viewing this video lesson
and I hope you liked it with the special
thanks to Rachel’s English
oh my this is coffee or how I can say
here in yourself install a fan he is so
antiphon here it is cause you know
thanks so much
hi guys what do you think that so we
feel a base means this time this is a
medium so it doesn’t mean the it’s
literally meaning to live you Lavigne’s
express that a person is full of energy
for example hey man what for it see
hello so we are going to it once you
accept it because I have to get off me
and I’m Philippines
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