hello my name is emma and in today's
video
i am going to teach you some new
expressions
these expressions all have the word
all in them okay so you're going to
learn a lot of new words today
or a lot of new expressions so let's get
started
the first expression i want to teach you
is one of my favorites
an all-nighter so an all-nighter
is when you stay awake
for over 24 hours so you do not
sleep so who pulls an all-nighter
usually students before an exam or a
test
might pull an all-nighter or maybe
somebody has a big
project and they don't have
time to sleep because they want to
finish the project so they might pull an
all-nighter
you'll notice that the verb we often use
with all nighter is pull
and all-nighter is a noun so we have n
i pulled an all-nighter this means i did
not sleep for more than 24 hours
when i was a student i only pulled
an all-nighter once okay which is good
that's pretty good have you ever pulled
an
all-nighter i hope you're not the type
of person that pulls all-nighters all
the time
because i have a friend who does that
all the time and
seems so terrible so that's the word all
nighter what's another expression with
the word all
i like this one a lot too all talk
so all talk is an adjective and it means
when we talk about doing something but
we never do it okay
so i have some friends who are all talk
that means that they always talk about
doing something
but they never have done it or they
never will
so for example i have one friend named
chris
and chris has a boss who he just hates
his boss is a terrible boss
and he's been working at the same
company for three years
and his boss and him get into arguments
all the time now what chris says
every time i see chris is chris says
you know i almost punched my boss today
i was so angry with my boss i almost
punched him today
which is not a good thing to do to
anybody but
you know also not a good thing to do to
your boss so what i say to chris is
chris
you are all talk you will
never punch your boss and that's a good
thing
but all talk chris always says he's
going to punch his boss
but he never actually does maybe you
have a friend like this
i have another friend who says that um
you know she's going to um quit her job
she hates her job and she's always
saying you know i'm going to quit my job
i'm going to quit my job
but she hasn't for a very long time so
you might say you're all talk
okay meaning you're not going to do it
another expression we have here is all
for it
all for it means when you strongly
agree with a decision or an action
so for example i just told you about my
friend
who wants to quit her job i'm all for it
that means i strongly agree with her to
quit her job
because she's so unhappy there all for
it
all for it is when we strongly agree
with an action or a decision
imagine you are at your friend's place
and
somebody wants to order a pizza if you
agree with this decision you can say
i'm all for it i'm all for ordering
pizza
okay maybe you want to study in toronto
maybe you're learning english and your
dream is to come to toronto to study
english
i'm from toronto so what i would say to
that is i'm
all for it that means i agree with your
decision okay so these are just some of
the ways we can use
all for it let's look at some other
examples
of expressions with all in them so our
next expression
um is kind of interesting because it has
the word
all in it twice all
in all all
in all so what does all in all
mean well we use it to mean everything
considered
or it's another way to say on the whole
so for example
maybe i'm talking about my trip my trip
to
uh france and i'm saying oh the food was
great you know the people were wonderful
i loved it
but it rained um you know so that was
kind of disappointing but everything
else was amazing
when i look at the trip completely
what i can say when i consider
everything
i can say all in all
we had an amazing time in france
all in all when you consider everything
all in all um you know there's some
things i like about english
maybe some things like certain types of
grammar are annoying
but all in all english is a really cool
language
maybe you agree maybe you disagree
that's okay
all in all when everything is considered
the next expression all the way all the
way has two different meanings
um so the first one i want to teach you
means
completely doing something completely
so for example if you say to somebody
i support you all the way
all the way means a hundred percent it
means i support you completely
um i
agree with you all the way i agree with
you 100
okay so all the way means completely
now it also has a sexual meaning so what
is the sexual meaning
well especially in movies um movies
you might hear somebody talking about
all the way
and this can be another way to say sex
so for example
they went all the way another way to say
they had sex so be careful when you use
this expression because it does have the
two meanings
okay the next next expression know it
all
i really like this expression we use it
when we're talking about somebody
so we use know it all to describe a
person
and it's a specific type of person a
know-it-all
is a person who acts like an expert
they act as if they have a lot of
information on something
and usually they don't have that
information so they act like they know
everything maybe you have a friend
that reminds you of wikipedia they seem
to know
everything on any topic if you bring up
um your work they can tell you all about
your job
you talk about uh english they know
everything about english
they seem like they're experts on
everything
and sometimes they're not but we call
that person a know-it-all
and it's not a nice expression okay so
it's it's
it's an insult so if somebody calls you
a know-it-all you know it's not a nice
thing to be called
a lot of the times when kids are in
school
and you have one kid that always has
their hand up
answering every question the other kids
might say he is a know-it-all
okay because he's answering every
question so again
it's a negative expression
david is such a know-it-all
and you'll notice because know-it-all is
describing a person
it's actually a noun we use
an article ah i am a know-it-all
okay now let's look at some other
expressions with the word all
okay so our next expression is a longer
expression
and the expression is for all
i know for all i know
so how do we use this expression and
what does it mean well
we use this expression when we don't
really know
something okay so we don't know all the
details
we have limited information we don't
really know
um so for example
if you go to a bar and you see uh
a man wearing a wedding or a ring
you might say he wears a ring
he's married for all i know it means you
don't actually know
you have limited information but
it's possible okay so you don't
know but this might be your guess
maybe you come home one day and
you notice that uh you were saving
yourself a piece of cake and it's gone
you might think oh where did it go well
you have limited information
so you might say to yourself for all i
know
you know there's a rat in the house
that's probably a terrible example
actually for all i know my brother came
and visited
and ate my cake um
so it's where you have limited
information and you don't really know
now this is a little different from our
next expression which is
for all i care for all i
care is different from for all i know so
the last word
changes for all i care is
when you're not worried about something
okay so you're not worried you don't
care
or you're indifferent this expression is
often used
in fights or in arguments
so what does it mean it means you don't
care
so for example you know sometimes you
might have
a couple fighting and maybe
uh somebody in the couple is angry
because the other person goes out
partying
every night one person might say
you can stay out until 2am for all i
care
meaning i don't care if you stay out
late but depending on the tone
maybe this person does care okay
so it really depends on how you say this
expression
for all i care um you can
you know you you can uh you can come
late for all i care
means i don't really care okay so it
it means um you don't care let's look at
another expression
not all there so we use not all there
when we're talking about somebody who is
not
fully alert um who
you know is not really functioning we
can also use it
sometimes to mean somebody is crazy so
there's different ways to use
not all there so for example i can say
mr j is not all there
he dresses his cat up in women's clothes
okay so mr j is not all there this means
i think he's crazy
or maybe you might have a family member
who isn't really
alert so you might say oh you know my
grandfather
he's not all there so there's different
ways to use this expression
not all there let's look at a couple
other expressions
so our next expression is all
along this expression means
since the beginning or the whole time
so often when people talk about love
they talk about all along so for example
zarc
loved lucy all along
this means for the whole time or since
the beginning
okay so very romantic um but
you can use the expression for other
things too that aren't about romance
so for example um you know
um i knew it all along
we often say that when we have a
suspicion
or we think something's true and then we
find out it is
we can say i knew it all along okay so
again it means the whole time or since
the beginning
i knew it since the beginning i knew it
all along
okay so what's another expression with
all once
and for all once and for all
what does it mean it means for the last
time
okay so this has a very strong sense of
finale it's for the last time
so i watched usain bolt run on tv
and it was his last race and usain bolt
wanted to prove he was the fastest
runner
once and for all this means that he
wants to do it
for the last time he doesn't want to run
anymore
in these races he wants to show this for
the last time
okay so once and for all um for the last
time
sometimes people have problems in their
lives
and they want the problem to be resolved
or to end
so i will deal with this problem for at
the last time
for once and for all okay so for the
last time
our final expression is all
over all over has different meanings
one of the meanings is we say all over
to mean
when something is done and there is no
other possible outcome or or
no other way this could have ended so
for example
um it's all over means it's done
it's finished sometimes it can be in a
bit of a negative way
um school's all over
i never have to go back again it's all
over it's finished it's done
um you know the test
it's all over okay it's finished it's
done
um and a lot of the times it can be
there was no other possible
way so you know imagine if somebody
fails their test they might put their
hands in their heads and say oh my god
it's
all over meaning ugh i didn't do well
there's no other outcome okay so it has
that sense of
finale we can also use all over
to talk about when things or objects are
in many different places
so if you go to somebody's house and
their house is messy
you might see clothes all over the floor
okay her clothes were all over the floor
this means
they were in many different places okay
um there is
you know maybe if you go camping you see
a lot of bugs
there are bugs all over all over the
place
it means that they're in a lot of
different places so we use
all over for different meanings these
are just two of the ones
that you've learned today so
we've covered a lot a lot of expressions
today
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