- Sorry I'm late.
(chuckles) Hey, guys, it's me, Milo.
Welcome to my Monster School Vlog where I tell you
all the neat stuff I did in monster school.
Today when we were at the word wall learning new words
like flower, petals, stem,
all of a sudden we heard boom!
Then it started to rain outside.
It was pouring.
My teacher said, "Oh my, it's raining cats and dogs."
What?
Cats and dogs?
I've never seen that before.
So I ran to the window, and I expected to see this.
Woof woof, meow.
But all I saw was this.
Where were all the cats and dogs?
My teacher said, "Milo, it's raining cats and dogs,
"doesn't mean that cute, fuzzy animals are falling
"from the sky, it means that it's raining really hard."
Huh?
See, it's raining cats and dogs is an idiom.
An idiom is a saying or expression.
The words don't mean exactly what they say.
My teacher told us a bunch of idioms.
Like, uh.
Oh, I remember one.
Cool as a cucumber.
It means,
actually, I forgot what it means.
Maybe it's-
this cucumber is freezing.
F-f-f-freezing.
(blows)
Wa-wa-wa-wa-wait, that's not right.
Cool as a cucumber does not mean that a cucumber is cold.
It means staying calm when things are difficult.
Like this.
This is not easy.
Gonna stay calm.
Gonna stay cool as a cucumber.
Ahh, see, I stayed cool as a cucumber and got my shirt on.
(chuckles)
Oh, it is a little snug around the mid section though.
Maybe I'll put my other shirt back on.
Oh, that's better.
(chuckles) Now where was I?
Oh, there was another idiom my teacher taught us.
It was going bananas.
I know exactly what that means.
Okay, I've got the bananas.
Where are we going?
(laughs)
Silly Milo.
Going bananas doesn't mean the bananas are going anywhere.
It means to act wild and crazy.
(yelling)
Yeah, that's it.
I'm going bananas!
Go bananas with me.
(yelling)
I'm going bananas.
(laughs)
You know what I'm doing with this ukulele?
I'm playing it by ear.
(chuckles)
That's another idiom my teacher taught me.
But it doesn't seem to be working.
♪ Hold on I just remembered ♪
♪ Playing by ear doesn't mean ♪
♪ To use your ear to play an instrument ♪
♪ Play it by ear means to ♪
♪ Make it up as you go along ♪
♪ Do de do, do de do ♪
♪ Do just like I'm doing with my song ♪
Like today, we were supposed to go on a trip to the garden,
but because it was raining, my teacher said we would
play it by ear and see if the rain would stop.
But it didn't.
So we made a new plan.
We stayed at school and drew pictures of flowers.
Ta da!
Learning all those idioms today really cracked me up.
(laughs)
Oh, don't worry, I'm not really cracking.
Nope, no cracks here.
Just purple fur.
Cracking up means to laugh really hard like this.
(laughs)
Okay, that's it for my Monster School Vlog today.
Hope you liked it.
See ya later, monster gators.
(chuckles)
Oh, I'm still cracking up.
Idioms, a cartoon by Milo.
- Oh oh oh, we're going bananas.
Oh oh oh, we're going bananas.
- Why is everyone acting wild and crazy?
- Not everyone.
That guy's cool as a cucumber.
- Indeed, I am as cool as a cucumber.
Not because I am a cucumber,
but because I am totally calm.
- So why is everyone else acting nuts?
- There's some guy playing it by ear over there.
- You mean he's making up a plan as he goes along?
- Heavens no, he's playing a piano with his ear, dear chap.
- When pigs fly.
That could never happen.
(piano music)
(snorts) - I'm flying.