Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun
Phrase 206. The noun phrase today is Spidey sense.
Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If someone says that their Spidey sense
is tingling. Yeah . Tingling that's kind of a , a little bit of a stinging
sort of feeling that's warning you. It's tingling or something sets
off their Spidey sense, it means they have a strong sense
that something is wrong , dangerous, risky, a threat etc. It is described as an
intuitive feeling. Like your intuition is like warning you about something
or instinct. It is usually used in a humorous way. So when people say it they
usually you know, kind of make it a joke about it. Let's
continue. The origin of this phrase derives from
the Marvel superhero. You know, the fictional
character Spider-man who is often sometimes called
by the nickname Spidey. Yeah. If you ever really read the comic
book. You know, we didn't see this so much in the movies, but in the comic book like
when I was a kid I read Spider-man a lot and often he would be talking about his
spider sense tingling and you know, a lot of different
issues that you know he could sense that some danger was nearby or that something
was wrong. He had this sort of ability in the
comic book. In the movies I never really seen them
bring this out, but in the comic book it's really there.
And for those people that read the comic book , this is where this phrase
actually comes from. All right. Let's continue. In real life
spiders do seem to have an unusual ability or maybe you could even
say sort of an uncanny ability to sense danger and
that's probably why they kind of put this idea in the comic book.
Yeah. If you've ever tried to like you've seen a spider on the wall and you were
thinking of like killing it or chasing it away sometimes
if you look at it . You can see the spider sometimes
can sense when you're zooming in on him. You know sometimes they'll just stop
and they'll freeze and then they're like, is he looking at me ?
And then if you kind of make a move and suddenly they start to run.
So sometimes it does seem like they have sort of a
more of an ability than your average insect in sensing danger.
Let's continue . However, it has never been proved that they have
a sort of sixth sense like the character Spider-man.
Most spiders have four eyes. Which is one of the main ways that
they sense danger. Yeah. I never knew this. I wonder if
one day maybe I should try to get a magnifying glass and look close to try
to see their four eyes. I don't know do they do they
literally have eyes in the back of their head ? And in the front . I don't know
they also have highly sensitive hairs that can perceive vibrations. Perceive here
means like sense vibrations from whatever surface they
are on. So they would definitely perceive it on a spider web.
That's for sure. Their hairs are also believed to sense
sound vibrations in the air as well. So those hairs that's on their
legs and things there sends them messages basically.
Okay. Let's continue. And we have four examples of just the way you might hear
it used. All right. Here's the first one. I'm not sure why but my Spidey sense is
tingling. Something just doesn't feel right
about this deal. Yeah somebody might actually say it this way.
Number two. If your Spidey sense is telling you
not to do this , maybe you should not do it
or at least postpone it until you are more
confident. So this is another way you could hear it used.
The third one here. There is something about this investment that sets
off my spidey sense. All right there's two ways we hear , we often say your
spidey sense is tingling or we often say that
something could set off your spidey sense. Kind of like a warning.
You know it's giving you this intuition and the last one here my Spidey sense
was warning me not to get involved with him. Okay. Anyway,
i hope you got it. I hope you found it informative. Thank
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