Hello! How are you guys today! Today I'm going to go over five idioms with you that start with D.
Our first idiom is, "Dead ringer."
Right, Dead ringer is usually used when you say that someone looks like someone else.
A lot of people use it especially when they are comparing someone to possibly a celebrity.
But you don't have to always use it in that case.
So for example, you could say, "Wow, my cousin is a dead ringer for Brad Pitt!"
That's basically saying, right, that your cousin looks like, Brad Pitt.
And our 2nd idiom is, "Don't hold your breath." "Don't hold your breath, okay, you use,
When you're telling someone that something probably will not happen."
So, for example, your friend and you are at a coffee shop and maybe you see a girl that
you think is good looking. Or if you're a girl, then you see a guy that
is good looking. And you approach them. And as you go to approach
them and you look at them, they are not happy at all.
And you go to ask for their phone number. And what happens is they give you a phone number,
but it may not be their real phone number.
So basically in that case you gave your phone number to her as well or him as well.
You're talking to your friend about what happened because you just got the phone number.
Maybe it's a fake phone number. But you're hoping possibly one or the other
person will call you. So you're friend tells you, "Don't hold your breath.".
"She's probably not going to call." Basically meaning, she's probably not going to call.
So, don't wait around.
Our third idiom for today is, "Drop it." Okay, drop it, doesn't mean to drop something
alright. I don't drop something, when I hear someone
say drop it. What it is used for is when, someone is listening to someone,
Maybe possibly yelling at them. And maybe they are getting scolded,
but they understand the point of what the person who is scolding them is saying, and so they might say,
"Drop it!" Stop talking, it means stop talking or maybe a son might say it to his mother.
It's rude, it's kind of rude in a sense. But a son might say it to his mother,
"Drop it!" I'll study for the next test. I'll get an A next time!
So in that case you could say drop it. So, drop it, when you say it, you kind of have
a little bit of frustration behind it. You can't just say, drop it!
Usually you are going to say, drop it! Meaning, right, "I've heard enough."
"I get what you're saying, or I just want you to be quiet."
So we can have either of those meanings.
Alright, our fourth idiom, is drop the ball. Does it mean to drop a ball, physically
actually drop a ball? It could mean drop a ball. Like, the guy dropped a ball at the basketball game.
Yes, but in the idiom form here. Drop the ball
means to fail at something. He really dropped the ball when he got terrible
grades on the test. Or, he really dropped the ball, trying to
talk to that girl. She ended up never talking to him again.
So, basically you're saying that someone failed at something when you say they dropped the ball.
And our fifth idiom is downer. If you say that someone is a downer, it means
that they are really". How could you say it? Someone is very".A negative person.
So everything could be going great and then someone says something very negative and all
of a sudden makes the whole mood depressed. And everybody is upset and they don't feel
good, they feel blue, because someone said a comment. So a downer is usually someone can be
a downer if they make the mood sad or not good anymore, right and that is our last idiom
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