Hi guys welcome to love English. So as you can see it's not a normal lesson...
Today it is rather snowy in the UK. Now sabra and i live in the south of England.
So, it is really rare that the snow reaches us here but it has today!
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So guys a British idioms are connected to snow and the cold now to be snowed
under did you know that to be snowed under implies that you have a lot of
work to do you are literally feeling like you're underneath the snow so if
you say I'm snowed under at work it means you've got a lot of work to do
perhaps more than you are keeping up with now to describe it being cold and
the weather we often say and it's a little bit rude that it's a cold enough
to freeze the balls off the brass monkey it's a bit of a long idiomatic
expression how do I explain it well brass is a metal so it's really hard and
quite cold and a monkey has balls these are not tennis balls they are referring
to a certain part of the monkeys and after me and anise monkeys don't wear
trousers and their balls would probably be very cold during this type of weather
so it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey that's a good one to
share with some of your friends okay the next one not snow but ices if you are
skating on thin ice or on thin ice it means that you are in a situation that
could become potentially dangerous for you or unfavorable so often mothers
might say to their teenage sons or daughters if they are misbehaving you're
skating on thin ice meaning if you push me anymore if you annoy me anymore you
will be in trouble you can also leave somebody in the cold I really feel like
I'd be left in the cold at the moment this seemed like a good idea but it's
really freezing so if you leave somebody in the cold it doesn't mean that you're
actually putting them in a cold temperature wise condition it means that
you are behaving in a negative way towards them that you are leaving them
out and not including them in something so for example
felt left out in the cold when she wasn't invited to the party
okay the next expression not a snowball's chance in hell now he'll
obviously referring to Heaven and Hell hell is usually depicted as being
somewhere hot and fiery and what is the chance that you would find a snowball in
hell well there isn't one so if there is not a snowball's chance in hell it means
that it's just not gonna happen very similar to pigs might fly it's not going
to happen we've also got with snowball it's noble effect if there is a snowball
effect it's usually referring to something in a positive way and it means
that something is growing so for example the popularity of music Ed Sheeran's
music has had a snowball effect it's become more and more and more popular
and it's grown in popularity okay finally the tip of it the iceberg if
something is the tip of the iceberg then it means that that it's just a small
part of what has gone on previously a lot of information is not known so if
you look at an iceberg you only see the very top of it it's just a small
percentage of that total iceberg most of it is actually below the surface of the
water so for example I had an argument with my friend about not doing the
washing-up now that was just the tip of the iceberg in that case my friend has
probably done lots of other things to upset me perhaps not cleaning the rest
of the time being rude to me whatever it might be that is just a very small part
of the problem okay so those were some very cold quick idioms thank you so much
for watching it's rather cold out here today so I think it's time I go in and
warm my feet because my toes are actually freezing now take care and make
sure you stay nice and warm