hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about American English idioms
are you ready let's begin
now what would we first say about an idiom what is that it's a colorful way
of speaking that's really all it is instead of just saying something
flat-out boring you're going to add a little color to your speech for example
hmm it's raining cats and dogs doesn't that
sound a lot better than just saying it's raining really hard hmm
now why would we say it's raining cats and dogs I'm not really sure where they
came up with that I guess because there's always been a lot of cats and a
lot of dogs so it just became a colorful way of saying it's raining hard so you'd
visualize cats and dogs falling out of the sky thank you for watching this
video and I look forward to seeing you at our next lesson good bye for now