oh hey there i'm emma from
english and today we are gonna be going
over 18 everyday
conversational idioms that will help you
to describe feelings and emotions these
are really useful idioms ones that i use
all the time to describe sadness
happiness
fear
disgust anger
and surprise
so that's six different emotions and for
each one there's gonna be three idioms
now i've got a really fun and great
little challenge for you at the end so
make sure you stick with me all the way
through
it's gonna be an emotional roller
coaster have you heard that idiom before
it's a bonus one
i've added the meaning to it on the
worksheet that i've created for you the
link is down in the description i've got
all of the idioms that we're going over
today with the meaning and some examples
to help you know when and how to use
them
plus there's a little mini quiz to help
you put everything that you learn into
practice are you ready to get into it
let's go
[Music]
happy
sad
angry
these are all really common adjectives
that we can use to talk about our
feelings in english but so common that
they can sort of feel a little dull
especially if they're the only
adjectives that you use to talk about
these feelings but to be totally honest
these words actually describe a really
wide range of emotions because we can
say
i'm really happy that i get to finish
work early tonight
or i'm really happy i just won a trip to
italy
the idioms that we're going to go
through in this lesson will help you
talk about that range of emotions but
also help to make your english more
interesting more fun more meaningful
thanks very much
bye
oh my gosh i just got the promotion at
work
emma that's fantastic
you must be over the moon
over the moon
over the moon is when you are really
pleased about something you're ecstatic
if you just won a trip to italy you
would be over the moon
how was your meeting it was great they
gave me the time off so i'm happy as
larry
now this one is quite an australian
expression actually i think unless
anyone's going to jump in and say that
they use it too but i really love this
expression happy as larry it's kind of
got that rhyming pattern in it to be
honest we don't really know who larry is
but we all generally agree that he's a
really happy guy so we all want to be
as happy as larry you can use it anytime
you're feeling happy not crazy crazy
happy not ecstatic but just right there
in the middle there's a public holiday
coming up and i'm going away with my
friends so i'm as happy as larry i had
no idea that i'd enjoy my new job so
much i'm a very happy camper so this one
is kind of similar to happy as larry a
happy camper indicates that you're
really content
really satisfied rather than extremely
happy
but interestingly
happy camper is often used in the
negative form as well so for example
when the company
reshuffled the organization
the team were not happy campers they
were unhappy but it's really important
to note that this is an exception a
happy camper can be used in the negative
we wouldn't use the negative form with
over the moon or happy as larry we
wouldn't say
i'm not as happy as larry
for some reason i don't know why so
remember if you want to use an idiom to
describe happiness you can say
over the moon
happy as larry
or that you're a happy camper
okay let's talk about some idioms for
sadness and again
sadness can move from feeling a little
down about your day
to
downright awful you know feeling like
life is super hard
something dramatic has happened
something awful has happened so there's
some really big extremes here we've got
to be careful about how we use these
idioms
and our first one is
a heavy heart with a heavy heart he
spoke at his father's funeral
have you ever had that feeling where it
seems like there's something heavy on
your chest maybe it's
hard to breathe or just your heart feels
heavy and that's this feeling that comes
through in this idiom it's a terrible
feeling to experience
and definitely on the more extreme side
of sadness
let's see if we can lift the mood a
little
they thought they were buying their
dream house but another couple offered
more for it
they've both been feeling down in the
dumps all week
they're really sad they're really
disappointed
i'm a bit bummed by missing my best
friend's birthday
so this just means that
you're low on energy a little
disappointed a bit sad so it's not as
bad as down in the dumps
and this one is definitely not as
extreme as
a heavy heart right so it's really not
appropriate to say he's a bit bummed
because his friend died
right that would sound really
insensitive
and similarly it seems a little over the
top to say
it's with a heavy heart that i tell you
i can't come to your birthday
it's quite dramatic so just be wary of
how and when it's appropriate to use
these idioms
now our next emotion is fear
and again fear is felt in a range
there's anxious and nervous right
through to utter terror i really hope
that you haven't felt utter terror too
often in life sometimes that can scare
the living daylights out of you so this
idiom describes a terrifying feeling
it's right at the top of our scale you
know when it's 3 a.m in the morning and
the phone rings randomly
something must be wrong
you get worried terrified when my
brother called me at 3am it scared the
living daylights out of me i jumped out
of my skin
is a little less severe
maybe you've just walked into a room and
a sibling or a friend is jumped out from
behind a wall to scare you right you get
such a fright
i nearly jumped out of my skin
i quite like this next idiom too it's
used to describe a feeling of
unease or discomfort
nervousness
[Music]
oh that sound gives me the
heebie-jeebies
[Laughter]
say it it's fun to say heebie-jeebies
you know when all the hairs on your arms
prickle and they stand up on end
that's the heebie-jeebies
to talk about fear we have
it scared the living daylights out of me
i jumped out of my skin
and
i got the heebie-jeebies
so our next set of idioms are about the
feeling of disgust a really strong
feeling of revulsion and disapproval
and our first disgusting idiom
is
to make you want to vomit
so this is really gross right it is so
disgusting whatever this thing is is so
disgusting it makes you want to be sick
to throw up to vomit the smell was so
foul it made me want to vomit
okay that's not really a great image so
let's move along
actually this next one is not much
better it's just not quite as graphic
something can make your stomach turn i
can't watch those medical shows that
show you close-ups of knee and hip
surgeries in the middle of an operation
they make my stomach turn
oh the thought of it sends you these
feelings that your stomach sort of is
twisting and turning and upside down and
you feel
a little ill
no thank you
i don't like that one either
not quite as graphic as the last one but
still not a pleasant feeling
okay to make your skin crawl
this one would also fit into the fear
category i think because it's that
similar
uneasy uncomfortable feeling that you
get
i remember watching a documentary on
netflix last year when they showed the
picture of a serial killer and honestly
he looked so scary he made my skin crawl
if you have a phobia of insects or
leeches like me
spiders and bugs and things
they might make your skin crawl the
thought of spiders and snakes makes your
skin crawl oh
all right let's leave disgust behind and
move on to the next emotion
anger
my neighbor had just got a new car he
pulled up onto the street out the front
of our house and then got out to admire
it
and out of nowhere someone hit the back
of the
car oh my gosh he flew off the handle
so this expression is used to describe
someone who's really angry if anyone is
in this state it's best to stay out of
their way right he flew off the handle
when someone rammed into his car
now keep in mind it's not he flew off
his handle flew off the handle okay to
be up in arms about something it also
describes
feeling really angry but it's less
aggressive than to fly off the handle
sounds less aggressive right you think
about throwing your arms up in the air
we do this when we're frustrated we're
annoyed about something we're irritated
so there's a difference right flying off
the handle is really angry
but we can say
she was up in arms about how messy the
shed kitchen was
and lastly
i'm at the end of my tether
if you've got young kids then this could
be a really useful idiom for you imagine
that moment when your kids have been
really naughty really disobedient all
day you've been asking them to
tidy their room clean up all their toys
all afternoon
and they're not doing it
so you keep hearing them yelling and
screaming it's driving you nuts right
and then
a ball breaks through the kitchen window
and you yell at them
i'm at the end of my tether with you
meaning
you've pushed me to my limit i'm at the
end of my ability to be patient with you
i've had enough
cool so now you've got three idioms to
use if someone is driving you crazy
another idiom or maybe someone is making
you really angry or annoyed or even if
you're thinking about describing a
situation where you felt that way
use these idioms to add flavor and color
to the way that you're describing that
situation
couldn't you believe that
i had to do a double take there we've
already been through 15 idioms together
time flies when you're having fun before
we get into our last emotion let me know
what you think about this video are you
enjoying it
hit that subscribe button give it a like
all of these things help me to know what
lessons you really want to see here at
english
[Music]
oh
whoa
that came out of the blue
i hope it didn't stop you dead in your
tracks
aha i've already used all three idioms
that i'm going to go through now i
wonder if you picked up on any of them
to do a double take is to look again at
something really quickly
like you see it and then you go back to
normal and then you suddenly think oh my
gosh what was that it's surprise right
it's caught you by surprise and we often
use it with the verb do
i did a double take i couldn't believe
it and when something comes at you from
out of the blue it's like it came from
nowhere it was completely unexpected
they got married just a few weeks after
meeting it was completely out of the
blue
now this one is almost quite literal
it's when you suddenly stop moving
because you're so surprised by something
she stopped dead in her tracks when she
saw maria she hadn't seen her in over 20
years
so all of these idioms helped to express
shock or surprise in some way they're
really great to add to stories and to
make your
english more interesting and exciting
right i stopped dead in my tracks i
couldn't believe it was her
it came out of the blue
okay so we've been through all of those
different idioms now i've got a little
challenge for you to help you put into
practice what you've been learning so
get your fingers ready to type i want
you to share a little story with me down
in the comments
take me on an emotional roller coaster
tell me a story maybe one that you've
experienced
maybe it's a fictional one that you make
up but tell me a story where the
emotions go up go down go up and go down
and try to use one of the idioms from
each section of this video
and don't forget to download the free
workbook that i've created for you it's
got all of the idioms from this lesson
their meanings example sentences as well
as a bonus little quiz to help you test
what you learned
i'm super excited about my next video
coming out on the english channel i hope
to see you in there bye for now