What's up guys today, I'm gonna do a video on eight
phrases that don't mean
Exactly what they sound like they might mean and I'm gonna be taking these
Phrases from a song called who I am hates who I've been it's by reliant K
Which is one of my favorite bands of all time now this video is meant more for
Advanced students who already know some English and it might be more difficult for beginners
But if you already know some English then this is going to be very useful for you to understand these
Phrases the first thing I want to talk about is the word proverbial when he says the line
First let's take a look at what a proverb is it's a short popular saying so when he says the proverbial
Sunrise he's talking about a sunrise that is spoken about in some saying the next thing
I want to point out is the phrase losing my mind when he says
He's not actually losing anything when he says this losing my mind is a common phrase and it means going crazy
Like he's tumbling down the slippery slope of mental illness another phrase he mentions in here is to shy away from and he says
to shy away from
means to avoid
Something so when you're shying away from
something it means that you don't want to get too close to that thing and when he says I will shy away from the
Specifics he means that he doesn't want to talk about something very
Specifically he doesn't want to give too many details about that subject
Another phrase that comes up in this song is crossed the line the actual words in the song
To cross the line means to go too far or to do something too much a
Lot of times we use this phrase when we're talking about personal relationships with other people for example if your brother wants to borrow
$5 from you one time that's fine. It's not really a problem, but if he wants to borrow
$500 from you, then you might say that he's crossing the line because that's way too much
And he shouldn't be asking you for that another phrase
I want to point out here is the phrase take it back and what he says is
When you take something back it's because you regret doing that thing and you're sorry about it
So basically you apologize and you try to make it right again for example
Let's say you tell someone that his mama is ugly and that wasn't very nice of you
So I don't know why you said it
But you did and he might get mad at you until you
Take it back so what he's really asking you to do is to change your mind and say that his mama is not
Ugly so you can say sorry I take it back as a way of apologizing
Otherwise you could just hold your ground and maintain your position that his mama is indeed ugly next phrase
I want to talk about is keep to myself, and he says
This phrase means to isolate yourself in other words you are
Intentionally staying away from other people because you want to be alone so when he says I couldn't keep to myself
Enough it means that he always wants to be more isolated from other people and in his mind
It's never enough, so he's always trying to keep to himself
Even more now let's talk about the phrase bottled up inside. He says
Now imagine a bottle of soda, and you shake up the bottle and it begins to build pressure a lot of pressure
Inside, but it's in a bottle so all that pressure can't go anywhere. It's all contained in the bottle
Until you open the bottle and then the whole thing blows up because there was way too much pressure inside
This is a metaphor for what's going on inside of him so when he says that he has things bottled up inside
He means that he has a lot of emotions building up inside him or a lot of feelings a lot of pressure maybe
Anxiety or anger or sadness or whatever it might be and it's creating a lot of pressure in his life
But it's all bottled up inside him, and he's not letting it out, and that's not healthy because when it all comes out
It's probably gonna blow up like the bottle of soda the last phrase. I want to talk about is sinking up
First I want to mention that
reverberating means echoing so to sync up is a short way of saying to
Synchronize and it means to make two or more things happen at the same time
So if the footsteps are syncing up with his heartbeat
Then that means that his heart is beating at the same time and with the same rhythm as the footsteps
So I hope you guys liked this video
And if you have any questions about the phrases that I talked about or any of the other
Vocabulary in the song then feel free to let me know in the comments below
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