To be down for. Do you want to talk about what that means? To be down for. Are you
down for talking about this phrase? I'm totally down for it. Alright guys, it looks like we're
gonna transition into English slang part two. So, I’m going to talk about three more phrases.
And while I do so you guys, I’m so happy to again, so glad to see so many people commenting. So,
while I am talking if you have any questions you want to ask me about the slang words or
just want to comment anything like that please go ahead and do that. Alright let's talk about three
more slang words so far, we've talked about chill legit and shady so let's talk about three more.
Alright, so here we have “to be down for,” this is a verb that means I am willing to do something,
or I want to do something. So, let's take a look at a couple sentences that I will share with you.
So for example, let's say I’m hanging out with my friend and we're both very hungry I might say:
what kind of food would you be down for? This is the same as asking: what kind of food do you want
to eat? What kind of food would you be down for? Oh, I would be down for Indian food or
oh there's a really good Pakistani restaurant we should go to. Oh yeah let's go there. I’m down for
that. So, we can use it in a question: What are you down for? Means: what would you like to do?
So that's the first way we can use in a question. I might also use it as an answer. So, if someone
says: hey wanna go see a movie tonight? I might just simply say: yeah, I’m down. I am down,
it doesn't mean I’m down. It means: yes, I want to do that. So here to be down for
means, willing to do something. Want to do something and we can ask in a question like:
Are you down for going out tonight? Or we could use it in just a response: Yeah, I’m down.
So there's another interesting thing about this: to be down for is very similar to “to be up for.”
So, it's this very similar but one different word to be up for something is to have the
energy to do something. So, it also means that you are willing to do it and you want to do it,
but usually we use this to mean: do you have the energy to do something? Are you up for it?
Do you want to do it? Do you feel like you are in the mood? You have the energy; you want to do it.
So, maybe I had a very long day at work and my friend asks: oh, hey
do you want to go out tonight? I might say I don't feel up for it, or I’m not up for it. This means
I’m too tired I’m not up for it. Another way I might use it, oh we're still on to be up for.
Another way I might use it is by saying something like,
again maybe asking a question or trying to see if my friend wants to do something:
oh, hey we're going out to eat tonight if you're up for it. So here,
to be down for something means yeah, I want to do it. And to be up for something means like,
do you have the energy? Right, we can think of as like: do you have the energy? Are you up for it?
Alright, next let's talk about the word bail. So, bail usually means the money you have to pay
to get out of jail. I hope none of you ever have to, no one ever has to worry about bail,
but here bail as a slang word means: to leave, to cancel,
or to we would say back out on something. So, for example, I might say:
oh, I was hanging out with john last night, but he bailed because he wasn't feeling well. So,
this means for example, this means that we were hanging out he wasn't feeling good, so he left.
So, I might say he bailed. This means he left. He went home. I might say something like: oh,
I’m hanging out with my friends sorry I gotta bail my class starts soon. I have to go to class sorry
guys. I have to bail. I have to leave. So, here bail means leave or go away. Stop hanging out.
Alright, the last slang word today is, zone out. I hope none of you are zoning out right now.
To zone out means to lose focus. To daydream or to not pay attention. So, perhaps you have, I’m sure
all of us have had a class with a teacher that just goes, and you sit there and just kind of,
you're thinking about other things. You're not really paying attention.
This means you are zoning out. It just means not paying attention. Thinking about other things.
So, for example I might be, I might have, maybe I missed class and I asked my friend:
hey what happened in class today? They might say: I’m not sure i was zoning out.
I was zoning out; I wasn't paying attention. Or another, a very common thing we might hear is:
oh, that speech or that class, oh that was so boring everyone zoned out, means no one was
listening. So, here zone is the word we'd modify for if we want to say past tense. I zoned out.
Present: I am zoning out or future I might just zone out in class today.