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- Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy.
You might remember that a couple of weeks ago
I uploaded a video about happy related expressions.
Expressions and idioms related to happiness.
Well, I was thinking the other day it's great to be happy
and positive, but it's also really, really important to know
how to express yourself when you're angry or annoyed.
Getting angry or annoyed is human nature
and we need to know how to express ourselves,
so I'm taking care of that today.
Let's get started.
Now I'm sure many of you will know the typical,
more basic ones like angry, cross, mad.
But, today I want to share with you
more alternative vocabulary, more advanced vocabulary,
and some idioms and some expressions that you can use.
So this video is going to help you express yourself,
it's going to help you with your speaking.
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Right, let's get started with the lesson.
Just a quick warning, a couple of the words that I'm going
to talk about could offend some people,
or maybe you don't want your children knowing them.
No swear words but if you're around children, headphones in.
And if you are easily offended
then you can find another video.
You've been warned.
The first bit of new vocabulary
that I'm going to share with you
is actually a phrasal verb and this is to piss off.
And you can also be pissed off.
And it means to make angry or to annoy.
So I could say, I felt really pissed off
when I saw that somebody had scratched my car.
Or I think I really pissed my teacher off
when I didn't hand in my homework on time.
Just so you know, that word, to piss off,
piss on its own is actually a vulgar word for
to urinate, so it's not respectful.
So around friends, very informal situations.
But, it's important you understand it.
The next one is another phrasal verb and this is
to rile somebody up, to rile one up.
And again it means to make somebody angry,
to push them until they maybe explode or lose their temper.
So to rile up or to rile somebody up is to make them angry.
So I could say, somebody's been picking on me for a while
and they're really riling me up,
I feel like I'm going to lose my temper.
OK, the next words all go with the verb to be.
So these are all ways to say to be angry, or to be annoyed.
So the first one, to be livid.
Livid just means really, really, really angry.
Then we have to be fuming.
Again, similar to livid, really, really angry.
Then we have to be seething.
If you seethe you are just so angry.
Then we have a couple that aren't as strong.
We have to be irked.
That's annoyed and just ever so slightly pissed off.
And we also have miffed.
If somebody does something that makes you go oh,
then you could say you feel a bit miffed.
And now I have some idioms for you, some expressions
that we like to use to express annoyance or anger.
The first one is to rub somebody up the wrong way,
or also to rub somebody the wrong way, the up is optional.
And to rub somebody the wrong way, think about it this way,
you can stroke a cat the right way
or you can stroke them the wrong way and it annoys them.
Well, this is exactly the same for people.
If you rub somebody up the wrong way, you are treating them
in a way that might make them angry or annoyed.
That really rubbed me up the wrong way,
that really annoyed me.
The next one, to be at the end of one's tether.
So if I say I'm at the end of my tether,
it means I am this close to losing to losing my temper.
To getting really, really angry.
You've really offended me, you've really annoyed me,
I'm this close to really exploding.
Another very similar one is the last straw.
So the last straw is that final thing in a collection
of many little things that have annoyed you,
but that one thing it's the last straw,
it's the thing that makes you lose your temper.
So I could say I had a terrible day
but my running training being cancelled was the last straw.
I just, pff, screw it, was really angry.
The next two are about losing your temper.
And obviously if you lose your temper it means (snaps)
that's it, you are angry, you are shouting,
you get maybe a bit aggressive.
So one way of saying to lose one's
temper is to lose one's rag.
So rag replaces temper in this case.
So if somebody lost their rag it means they
exploded in a fit of anger.
And another option is to fly off the handle.
Again to lose one's rag, to fly off the handle,
to lose one's temper.
So I've got some homework for you.
I would like you to write in the comments section
something that made you angry or annoyed recently,
if you want to share it of course.
I think it will be really interesting.
Normally I'm all about spreading positivity
but I don't know, today I want to spread
the annoyance and the anger. (laughs)
So that's it for today's lesson.
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