Hi this is Ceema and I am back with a new lesson on, How to be a smart mouth. Well,
when you are engaging in spoken English. You kind of express your feelings based on your
reaction to what people tell you, correct? Well, there is another way of doing that,
by being a smart mouth or giving what we call as smart ass answers. So when some people
tell you something and if you want to express your frustration, your confusion or any other
emotion based on what they tell you, then you are going to now give smart mouth answers.
So I'm gonna take you through a few smart mouth answers, when you are confronted with
some different types of situations.
The first very important or a very common smart mouth answer is when you tell someone,
that's a bit rich coming from you. Well, when do you use this sentence? You will use this
sentence, when you wanna tell someone that they are being a hypocrite, so just imagine
you have a friend of yours, who tells you well Ceema, you should not bunk classes, you
should go to class more regularly and well your friend, he himself bunks his classes
all the time. Can you believe that? He is what I call a hypocrite, because well he does
what he's telling me not to do. So when someone tells you something like that, your reply
to that would be well that's a bit rich coming from you isn't it? So that's what he tell
someone who is being a hypocrite. The next one is, Bite me. Well, what would it be if
someone bit you? That would be very hurtful, but that's not what we literally mean. Bite
me is an expression, when you are trying to show or express your resentment or when you
wanna tell someone that you are quite upset with what they've just told you. And this
expression is basically used, when you are punished for something, so your mother tells
you, your grounded young girl and you say bite me. Well, that's a very smart ass or
a smart mouth, where you are saying that you are not very happy, you are upset showing
your resentment. And another very interesting smart mouth answer is, Oh great, things just
got better. Well, this is more of a sarcastic statement, because this statement is used
when things are bad enough, so things are bad, so and from bad they've got in worse.
So for example, You are stuck in traffic and you had a flat tyre. Now you've asked a friend
to pick you up and your friend ditched you. So your friend calls you and tells you, I'm
not, I cant come, I'm kind of busy with something else. Guess what things went from bad from
being, you know stuck with a flat tyre to being even worse. So that's when you make
a sarcastic comment saying, Oh great things just got better, when in fact they actually
got worse, so it's another way of saying that you are quite frustrated, so you will use
this statement, when you want to express your frustration.
The next one is, You are or you're a smart one aren't you? You're a smart one aren't
you? Well, are you? This expression again is a very sarcastic comment, when someone
is unbelievably stupid, so you are gonna tell this to someone, who gives you or tells you
something unbelievably stupid. Well, if someone tells you something stupid like or ask you
something very stupid, like so you can send emails over the internet, right? You're a
smart one, aren't you? Basically it is a very sarcastic comment telling that person that
look, its obvious, what your'e asking me is obvious, your'e quite stupid, shut up. So
that's the way of putting it across to someone. And the next one is, when you thank someone,
you would say, Thanks granny or thanks grandpa, so if your'e telling this to a lady or a woman,
you would say thanks granny. If you are telling it to a man or a male, you will say grandpa.
But are you really thanking them? No your'e not because this expression is basically used
to tell someone that they are treating you like a kid and your'e annoyed by it. So when
you are expressing your anger or your annoyance at being treated as a kid. So my elder sister,
whenever she gave me the car keys, she told me, okay make sure you don't switch lanes
or make sure, you always show the indicators, make sure you always look at the road while
driving and I'll end up saying, Thanks granny. Well, because I wanted to show, I was upset,
I didn't wanted to be treated as a kid and I was expressing my annoyance or my anger
at being treated as a small child.
And our next smart mouth answer is goes like this, Wow! you can really talk or in other
words you can say that's fascinating. When do you use either of these statements? Well,
there are some people who love to talk and will love to talk and talk and talk, well
they just don't stop, do they? So when you have people like that, who always talk and
just don't know when to put an end to their conversation, you get to a point wherein,
you don't wanna be rude, you don't wanna tell them to shut up, so you say, Wow! you can
really talk, that's fascinating. Now when you are using these statements, your tone
of voice is very important, because they are gonna get them as such, believe me , if you
have the right tone of voice while saying it. And the next one is another very interesting
expression or a statement, which says, Your'e not a very good liar, are you? Well' it states
quietly obvious, so here your'e talking about someone, who is obviously lying and you can
see it through the lies and you were tired of someone's lies and you wanna tell them,
stop lying. So instead of saying it directly, you will say, you're not a very good liar,
are you? Well, I went to the mall yesterday and bought you a gift, I don't see any gift,
your'e not a very good liar, are you? Well, I cleaned the room yesterday mom, your room
is dirty. It's like a pig hole, your'e not a very good liar, are you? So when your'e
obviously lying, that's when you will use this statement. The next one is another interesting
one, which say's, Next time try keeping it in your pants. Well, this is something you
tell a man and okay, because men they do cheat sometimes, some of them do, so when you are
scolding men for cheating with their wife's or their girlfriends. You don't wanna do the
obvious and say, you slept with her, you've got a wife, you don't wanna do that, so you
will tell them next time try keeping it in your pants. We all know what the it means,
your'e right, so this is a very sarcastic way of telling them to stop doing the obvious,
which is cheating, right? And the last smart mouth expression or statement is, Really?
Well I saw a dog fly the other day. Well, I don't know how many people have seen a dog
fly? Because I certainly haven't and I don't know what kind of dog's fly, but when this
statement is said, It is said in response to someone, who tells you something that is
unbelievable. So imagine a friend of your's, who's just a normal average school going girl,
she comes up to you and really tells you that, look I'm dating Tom Cruise. Dating Tom Cruise?
Well, what are the chances of that ever happening? Never right, so basically, she's telling you
something that is unbelievable or something that is never, ever going to happen and therefore
your smart mouth answer to that is, Really? Well, I saw a dog fly the other day, not happening,
what your'e saying is completely unbelievable.
Well, that's it from me on this lesson on how to be a smart mouth. I hope you found
it very interesting and informative. If you have anymore smart mouth answers, please write
into us. Until then, this is me saying good bye