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hi
everyone my name is pradhan and i
welcome you with a very big heart on
let's talk
in today's lesson we will talk about 15
most common english idioms that people
use in their daily life
but actually i do not i do not like to
call it idioms
i call them smart phrases these are
those
creative phrases that people use to talk
about certain things in certain
situations
let's get started the first phrase that
we have here is
a blessing in disguise blessing in
disguise means
a good thing that seemed bad at first
there's one situation
initially you thought that it is bad but
later turns out that it was good
for example not doing that assignment
turned out to be a blessing in disguise
because the assignment was cancelled
later
so you had that guilt initially that oh
my god i did not do that assignment
because you were busy doing a lot of
other things but later it was found out
that the assignment had gotten cancelled
and so
not doing the assignment was actually a
blessing in disguise
please use this phrase and make your
english better
next phrase idiom that we have is get
your act together
get your act together is very commonly
used but
uh has a very beautiful meaning it means
to organize yourself
you are somebody who's always
disorganized not just keeping your
keeping your room dirty
but from mind as well because you have a
lot of things going on
let's see how we can use it an example
she is so disorganized i wish
she'd get her act together that means
she has a lot of things going on and her
life is not organized
she just does anything at any point in
time she needs to get her act together
she needs to become a little more
organized
let us now look at the third idiom third
interesting phrase
that you can use it is let me off the
hook
it has a very interesting meaning it
means do not
hold someone responsible for something
for example
you did something and there was somebody
who was who was blaming you for doing
that
in such a situation you can use let me
off the hook
please do not blame me for example let
me off the hook
i didn't break the glass so don't blame
me very interesting phrase
let us now look at the next one the next
one is on the ball
it means to take quick actions there are
a lot of situations in which we can use
this phrase
on the ball one of them one of the
examples i hear
i can't believe molly got that
assignment checked
so quickly she's really on the ball that
means
she's really quick to take actions here
there are so many situations wherein
we take quick actions in our daily life
and in such a situation when you're so
active
you say you are on the ball the next
phrase is
pull yourself together to pull yourself
together means
to calm down for example please don't
cry and pull yourself together dave
never deserved you
so let's say your friend just got
separated from
dave the relationship broke up and
you're saying
please don't cry and pull yourself
together
please calm down because dave was was
somebody who never deserved you
this was all about pull yourself
together the next phrase in the list is
speak of the devil very interesting
phrase one of my most
interesting ones which you can use in a
funny context as well
for example it means the person we were
just talking about showed up
for example does it happen to you that
you're talking about someone
with a friend let's say you're talking
about rahul and raul just
enters the room uh you never you never
thought that he will
just enter the room when you would when
you started talking about him
but it just happened in such a situation
you say
speak of the devil let's see how we can
use it in a conversation
a says hey everyone sorry i'm late
so there's a who's saying that b then
says
well speak of the devil it is actually
an exclamation here
speak of the devil we were just speaking
about something funny
you were saying the other day we were
actually just talking about something
that you said
in a funny way yesterday the next phrase
that we have is
we'll cross the bridge when we reach
there we'll cross the bridge
when we reach there it means let's not
talk about
that problem right now so probably
there's a problem or a situation
or a condition uh that you're talking
about
and in such a situation if you want to
deal with the solution of that problem
later that's when you use this phrase
we'll cross the bridge when we reach
there
for example martin asked
what we do if we make mistakes as we
speak english
and not just martin there are so many of
us
do you suffer from the same problem as
martin well if you do
please do let me know in the comments
section because somebody else says it
here
i said we'll cross that bridge when we
reach there
it's very important first uh do not
start talking about the mistakes first
it's important that you start speaking
first and so in communication not just
in english but any language start
talking don't worry about the mistakes
mistakes will be automatically corrected
this is how we use this phrase let's now
look at the next one
you've got to be showing off you've got
to be showing off
is very interesting again it means to go
away
you can either use it informally rudely
or to to express your anger or in a
funny way as well for example
you've got to be showing off i'm
studying and you're bothering me
well a fight amongst siblings is going
on and
one of them says you've got to be
showing off why
because i'm studying and you're
disturbing me that's how you use
you've got to be showing off let us now
look at the next one
damned if you do and damned if you don't
very interesting phrase
have you ever gone through a situation
in your life when you have two choices
well if you follow choice a you will
fail
and if you follow choice b you will fail
even then
in such a situation you say damned if
you do
and damned if you don't it means
be unsuccessful even if you do it and
don't do it
uh with it i mean something for example
i'm sick and can't sit for the exam
tomorrow or whenever it is
i am doomed if i do and i'm doomed if i
don't so it is
it is like that situation wherein i will
fail no matter what i'll do
this is how you use damned if you do
damned if you don't
please do make sure that you use it in
daily life
the next one is get bent out of shape
it means to become upset there are so
many times when people become upset in
daily life
that's when you use the phrase get bent
out of shape
uh for example it's okay to get bent out
of shape
when you fail an exam work hard and pass
the next time
it's very important for us all to
remember it's fine if we fail an exam
it's okay let's not be so tough on
ourselves
but in such a situation don't get bent
out of shape
don't become upset too much upset
work hard and pass it the next time this
is get bent out of shape
let's now look at the next one a dime a
dozen very interesting phrase it means
very common anything that is very common
for example
don't buy this books like this are a
dime a dozen
at my at my house so you're suggesting
to your friend at a bookshop
that hey do not buy this book on
psychology or
let's say let's say mythology there are
so many books that i have at my house
you can borrow any any of those from me
so dime a dozen is something that is
very common
next one is wrap your head around it
one more time wrap your head around it
it means
to understand something finally now if
you have understood
any one of the phrases uh idioms that we
have spoken about in this video
then that means you have wrapped your
head around it
for example i couldn't wrap my head
around grammar in the beginning
but the training on let's talk uh made
my life
easier the training on let's talk
made my life easier that means
uh initially it was very hard for me to
understand grammatical pointers
but later i realized that i did a
training on let's talk successfully
completed a training
and it helped me get better at it it
wrapped my head around it
next one is play devil's advocate
play devil's advocate means to warn or
contrast a decision
for example you have made a decision and
there is somebody who's opposing not
opposing
but warning you about that decision that
you have made
and that's when you use the phrase play
devil's advocate
so that person is playing devil's
advocate let's better understand it
using an example i don't want to play
the devil's
advocate can we really afford to pay the
emi
for the new car imagine uh there there's
there's a husband and there's a wife and
they are planning to get a new car
and the husband says or the wife says to
the other one
that i don't want to play the devil's
advocate i don't want to ruin your plan
but i just want to warn your decision
can we really
afford to pay the emis of the new car
because i don't think we have the
financial condition too
at the moment so that's how you use
devil's advocate
let us now look at the next one and that
is burn bridges
imagine there are bridges if there if
there's a bridge between two people
that that's connected from one person's
heart to the other person's heart
and if that bridges burns there's no
connection anymore
it means ruin relationship
let's see how we can use it i don't burn
bridges just because kate didn't
wish me on my birthday i do not want to
ruin my relationship
with her just because of that this was
all about
or understanding and using the 15 most
commonly used
idioms creative phrases in english
language
and if you have wrapped your head around
any of these phrases
please do make sure that you let me know
your favorite ones in the comment
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