Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 483. The title of today's lesson is the
difference between cringe and grimace. Okay. If somebody wants a screenshot, do it right now.
Let's get right to it. If a person says that someone cringes at someone or something,
he or she may feel embarrassed or disgusted by someone or something unpleasant. This is
often expressed by unpleasant look on one's face and possibly make make a slight backward movement.
So that's one thing. Cringe often, often not 100 % of the time but often has a backward movement. So
somebody's like and then they kind of slide their body backward like (cringing noises ) So cringe
is a little bit more likely to be used when you are disgusted by something too.
All right. So but, but there is a little bit of crossover because they both
have an unpleasant face on them and it's both about you know, not liking something.
Let's continue. If someone grimaces, he or she will often make an unpleasant or ugly look on
one's face due to pain. All right. So grimace might be... this is one where grimace is likely
to be with some physical pain. So if you felt a physical pain. you might be (grimacing noises )
Something like this could be a grimace. So grimace is a little more likely to use for that one.
Or a strong dislike. So again there is crossover. It could be just something that you just don't
like as well. An unpleasant expression. Okay. Good. This ...our expression. ... This could be
done by twisting or contorting one's face to make an unpleasant expression.
So if you're kind of like moving your facial expression like (more noises of grimacing )
So that's another thing. So with grimace you're more likely to be you know, especially moving
you know, parts of your face around. Okay to show displeasure. All right. Let's continue.
All right. Now let's look. We got seven examples here. Here's the first one.
She cringed when he tried to kiss her. Yeah. I Sometimes give this as an example every time the
word cringe comes up because it always reminded me of a very old Ann Landers. You know, article
that somebody wrote in. Some, some woman wrote in and she wrote in actually about her husband.
That when her husband had switched to work at home, he stopped grooming himself. So he
stopped taking baths and he stopped brushing his teeth and stopped combing his hair
and you know she was really complaining about this. She was writing in about this.
But that was one thing she, she said " and then he wonders why I cringe when he tries to kiss
me. " Because you can imagine you know, this guy hasn't bathed for a long time. His breath
is probably not very good like , but it's supposed to be her husband. You know , and she's like
just be cringing moving backwards. So I don't know. You could you could let me know,
if you were this woman too. What would you do ? Would you be cringing as well ? All right. Anyway,
let's go on. All right. We have the second one here. When, we offered her some fried grasshoppers
we bought as a snack in Thailand she cringed at the sight of it. So yeah. Again if you're
disgusted by something. Again. So cringe is used a lot with disgusted. Just like the first example.
There's disgust there. This one too. Sometimes when somebody's offering you something really
unusual or strange to eat. Most people don't eat fried grasshoppers. There is worse
things to be offered, but still it's the type of one that might make you cringe. Like
Nah. You know, like they're handing it to you and you're like nah. That's okay. So you might cringe
in that sort of sense. Okay number three here. When that contestant tried out on American Idol
judges cringed at the sound of her voice. Yeah. Some people just go on just so that they'll be
filmed or some people don't mind being the person that's kind of laughed at or maybe
some people really believe they had a great voice and they try it out and the judges are like.. Oh!
Kind of like that. So they were cringing at you know, just
hearing her voice. All right. Number four here. When they sewed up his stitches, he grimaced in
pain. So again physical pain is more likely to be grimace. So if you're feeling something like
you know, there's a lot of reasons you might feel physical pain.
That'd be a little bit more likely to be grimace. Number five. She grimaced as she said that outfit
is just too tacky. Yeah. So it doesn't have to be physical pain. So she's like
that's that's not good. That's too tacky. That's too ugly. That's too. You know , so maybe she made
that sort of face that could be a grimace as well. All right. Number six here. She grimaced from
a bad stomach ache. So maybe the stomach ache was so (sounds of pain )
especially when you don't really, you're trying to hold your pain, but you really
can't because it's there you know you might make those sort of a facial expression. You know that
the person really feels some discomfort. So we might. Again so grimace. Another
one here would be from physical pain. And the last one here. That politician grimaced when
asked a question he did not like. You know, (Grimacing noises)
Why they asking me that ? You know, something like that. Okay. Anyway , I hope you got it. I hope
this video kind of helped you to have a much better feel when you might use one rather than
the other. There's a little bit of crossover , but there were some clear distinctions between
these two as well. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.