hello I'm Jennifer I'm standing in the
woods behind my home here in
Massachusetts because I'd like to share
a few expressions that have to do with
the outdoors what better place right
let's start with the first expression to
be out of the woods if you're out of the
woods you've just come out of a
difficult situation your problems have
ended and if someone says to you you're
not out of the woods yet it means that
difficulties will continue or you have
more challenges that lie ahead come this
way
there's another spot I want to show you
this is my neighbor's garden you can see
lots of plants and flowers and they've
grown quite well that's because she has
a green thumb if you have a green thumb
it means that you have a talent for
gardening you can make things grow well
like my neighbor now these flowers are
pretty but truthfully I prefer roses and
that makes me think of our last
expression a bed of roses if your life
is a bed of roses you have a life of
ease and comfort even luxury and if life
is no bed of roses well you have a lot
of hardship to deal with understand
let's review we've had three expression
the first was out of the woods or to be
out of the woods which means to come out
of a difficult situation then we had a
green thumb or to have a green thumb a
talent for gardening or you can make
things grow well and the last a bed of
roses a life of ease and comfort got it
let's see I have three statements I'm
going to read them to you and I want you
to tell me which expression completes
each one okay here's the first my
mother's garden is the biggest and most
colorful in the neighborhood she really
has answer a green thumb
next a fisherman's life is no the sea
can be rough and fishermen often sleep
for only a few hours a day what
completes it no bed of roses and the
last one Charlie's business stopped
losing money but he's not yet he still
has a large debt to pay answer not out
of the woods yet how did you do I'm sure
you did just fine you know if you have a
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