is death reversible that's kind of cool
hi jinx from invid and welcome future native language speakers mr e is wearing a wig and
he's got the sign eight slang phrases let's go to the board and take a look what's going on
so he's wearing a wig and he wants me to read this story to you but before i start
i'm going to explain what this is about what we're going to do today is we're going to learn eight
slang phrases you'll probably hear on the news on romantic comedies or on police shows um primarily
i want you to be able to become aware of what these are so you can understand them from their
context and the meaning of them and if you're a new uh a new language learner a new native speaker
or trying to be um you may not want to use these but they'll be very useful to you to understand
what's being said because these are common phrases that north american speakers use all right
so we're going to go to the board look at these eight phrases why is this good well this is going
to make your television viewing a lot better when you watch romantic comedies or the news it'll also
help you on the streets when you hear people just say these things casually you'll go okay i know
what they're talking about and as you get better in english you might want to start using some of
these cool all right let's get started let's not hold you back from your learning lesson so
story e you want me to read this okay and you're going to explain why you're wearing
a wig it seems he's doing it to show the crazy woman i don't know let's just read it
so one day when mr e was walking down the street a beautiful woman came up to him out of the blue
and made a positive oh that's interesting out of the blue made it past okay seems
we're supposed to pay attention to these things in the blue okay mr e thought she was tripping
because she said he was the best looking worm she had ever seen okay so mr e thought she was
up to something because she was a nervous wreck it turns out she was a crook she demanded mr
e's wallet saying hand it over mr e thought he was a goner so he handed it over and ran away
the end well the story seems like he's a bit of a coward a chicken but
let's go to the board and take a look at what he's trying to get to us so the wig is because of the
woman right e okay got it that's not your real hair you're not going to be going to become mrs
or anything like that the first one we have is out of the blue okay that's it and that is a phrase
an idiom and what it means is think of the sky blue sky if something fell from a blue sky onto
your head ow that would be out of the blue and it means from nowhere unexpectedly you could
say it happened unexpectedly so something out of the blue is something that happens unexpectedly
the guy gave me a million dollars out of the blue i didn't expect this it was unexpectedly next
made a puss at him so she came out unexpectedly first one and made a pause at him well if you play
football and i mean the american kind you know what i'm saying where you throw the ball like
this it's called a purse so you pass the ball by throwing it you threw a pass to someone and if you
play the european sport of football then it will be a kick and you kick the ball you pass it to
your opponent or pass it to a player who scores the ball it means to throw something at someone
but that's not what it means here if someone makes a pass at you it means they are flirty with you
they're like hey how are you run around flirting and if they make a heavy puss
they could be strongly flirting at you okay okay so made it possible mr e thought she was trippin
now this is strange because we have an apostrophe and i don't know why we have it
actually i do when you have an apostrophe it means something's missing now usually there's an english
word and it's called tripping and it has a g on it okay and that g indicates like about to fall
over because something this is different because it is slang so when you see that it's a different
message tripping in this case means not in your right mind or mentally ill it also can mean
not cigarettes okay if you're a little older you know what i mean some people can be tripping
because they're using narcotics and it's not alcohol so she's tripping she is mentally ill so
he thought she was mentally ill that's a kind of a serious thing right especially because she said he
was good looking or something and flirting now why was she doing this he said because she he was the
best looking worm she had ever seen he has issues self self-confidence issues he's a good looking
guy look at him but clearly he didn't think he was the best looking worm that she had ever seen
he thought she was up to something now when somebody is up to something we think they're
doing something suspicious or something that's not good or right so if i think you're up to
something i think you're doing something that's not good i'm suspicious i'm questioning you okay
so because she thought he was the best looking worm he thought she must be up to something
next she was also a nervous wreck okay well that helps just because someone gives you a
compliment doesn't mean you're crazy but if you're also nervous and you're saying you're
the best looking worm i've ever seen i would think something's not white quite right here so
a nervous wreck is when somebody's very anxious a little nervous too much nervous wreck okay
it turned out or it turns out she was a crook well a crook when we say crooked
something's crooked it's not straight and not straight means criminal so she was a criminal
so this complimenting woman was really a criminal she demanded mr e's wallet saying hand it over
now this is my hand and just just pretend this is a table when you hand something over it means to
give give it to someone else on the other side so if i say hand over the the water give it to
me but in this case she was a crook and she demanded see she didn't ask to hand it over
to take out his wallet and give it to her i don't think i got a wallet i'm kind of poor let me see
wallet so hand it over that means give it to her but she demanded so it's not polite if someone
says do you hand it over it's not usually asking you in a polite way okay so don't use it and think
it's okay like hand over the cookies hand over the milk it's usually asking someone an aggressive way
to give it to you and finally he thought he was a goner well that makes sense if someone's a nervous
wreck they're a little bit too nervous and anxious you find out they're a criminal and then they say
give me your wallet you probably think they have a gun and if they have a gun you probably think
they're going to kill you if somebody says i thought i was a goner it means they thought they
were going to die or something bad was going to happen so if somebody has a heart attack
oh i thought i was a goner i actually thought i was going to go away to heaven being a goner okay
and then he said he ran away because he's such a brave guy yeah my hero and he's at the end so we
don't even know we know he gave away his wallet and he ran away but at least now we understand
this story that we started with with many actually we have eight um idioms that you may not have
known or phrases and now we have an opportunity to go back and see how well you've learned them
because i've explained them to you and when we come back from the board i'm going to erase
all of our phrases and i want you to try and tell me what should be in here in place what will be
the regular english and then this way you'll have one the visual of slang and two how it turns into
normal language and how you can probably use it in your own life cool are you ready huh let's come
back to the board and we're back and as i said oh i've got the wrong marker i want to use black
we did the slang terms and i want to make quick mention of something slang is cool
and it's good for you to understand because a lot of times what what is slang is shortened language
people use it because it communicates an idea faster than saying the whole sentence
and it's kind of cool better than being so professional all the time
but please keep in mind when we say things like tripping right i gave you the example tripping
can be on drugs you wouldn't say if somebody was actually really mentally ill they're tripping or
there's another one i'm going to show you later on and when i say polite company is something
if someone's mentally ill you say they are mentally ill they're depressed or something else
people may say this though and this is why i'm teaching this to you if you're in a bar situation
or they might say it on a television program and just because they're saying it doesn't mean you
should i'm going to say emulate but which means copy it so keep that in mind it's for you to know
so when you're watching tv programs or people are speaking to you know what they're saying
but context is very important if someone's saying it to her in the bar it doesn't
mean you should say hey her her brother's tripping in a mental hospital or he's not
well the other one i'll teach you shortly but it's when they say it to you you can go i understand
i'm not going to repeat that but i understand cool all right so my public safety uh announcement is
done my psa let's go to the board see how well you learned what i've taught you earlier on
let's start over here mr e okay so one day mr e was walking down the street a beautiful woman
came up to him and what was out of the blue so what is out of the blue mean that's the key
unexpectedly he didn't know what was going to happen it wasn't planned
so it was unexpectedly so another word for out of the blue is unexpected and what happened
i'm sorry i'm writing the answer she made a pause at him she made
it possible what's another word for making a pause at someone or another
phrase uh
it was flirtatious but i'm saying very flirty she was very flirty with him that means she was like
oh my gosh oh you're so amazing you're so great so when someone flirts with you which is the verb
right it means they say you're very attractive and they're very very
i don't know what's the word they want to show their interest in you
mr e thought she was what
now this is what i was explaining at the beginning of the lesson or this segment of the lesson
all right we said oops tripping and tripping in this case was
mentally ill so i'll go over that once more if someone's mentally ill in a non-slang way
say they are mentally ill if they have psychosis so they have to have a psychiatric treatment
or see doctors call them mentally ill and i told you another thing for tripping was for
drugs if someone's on illegal or illicit drugs they could be on legal drugs but they
have too many they could be tripping meaning they're not in their right mind at this time
and tripping can also be angry are you tripping are you crazy crazy and angry in that way okay
so he thought she was mentally ill because she came out under the out of the blue
unexpectedly she was very flirty from nowhere so he's like okay i think you're mentally ill
okay so she was best because she said she was the best looking worm she had ever seen so mr e
thought she was up was what what was up to something what's nothing okay
for up to something is doing something suspicious so i'm just going to write this over here
because i don't have any room suspicious she was very suspicious so let me clean that up a little
bit more because i want you to be able to read what i write she was doing something suspicious
okay and that's something that you don't really trust okay something's wrong with what's going on
you're suspicious because she was what a nervous wreck right and if she was a nervous wreck what
does that mean now what is very anxious because some of you people even though it gave you nervous
wreck for slang very anxious might also make you very anxious when you're anxious it means you're
nervous nervous is okay you get nervous probably when you're trying to speak english to people
right you're there oh will i remember the words will i get the order right is the grammar correct
i get it i get nervous doing videos sometimes when you're a nervous wreck it's different
because when you're nervous you can still function you can do something
i may be nervous now but i can still teach this lesson if i'm a nervous wreck i'll be like
and i won't be able to perform or do anything and if you're a nervous wreck you won't be able
to do anything so when you're very anxious or too anxious you can be a nervous wreck cool all right
now because because she was anxious you know she was too nervous and she was too nice those
two things don't go together like why are you so nervous and being so nice a little bit makes sense
too much is not good because it turns out she was a we said crook and i said crook is not straight
so you have something that's straight when it's bent it's a crook and i should have explained in
english if someone's a straight arrow it means they do the right thing so we say someone's
straight they do the right thing or they're not gay or homosexual that's what straight means so
when something's bent it means it's not what we expect and not normal all right so in this case
she was a crook and another word for crook in this case is what it is a criminal
and we all know what criminals are someone who breaks the law right next she demanded
mr e's wallet saying what did we say hand it over right hand it over once again
i explain what it means so i'm going to give you a second to think about it
that's right now i have to explain something because what
i am going to write is not exactly the same
they have similar meanings but if somebody says hand it over usually it's not polite right it's
usually more of a demanding form if someone says give it to me or you can give it to me
it's much more casual right oh you've got a new watch give it to me let me take a look at it
you can say hand it over but usually handed over in this case is a bit stronger right hand it over
it's not as polite as can i have it or can i look at it or can you give it to me so i'm saying that
to you in case you think oh hand it over give it to me or equal if you say hand it over people
will think you're being a little bit rude all right but it is slang and you should know what
it means because it means they actually want it and they want you to give it to them probably now
okay he thought he was something so he handed it over right away now if you remember what
i said if handed over is strong and it's a criminal telling you to hand something over
what do you think is probably going to happen with your life hmm
yeah you might think you're a he thought he was a dead man it doesn't mean dead man it
could be a dead woman anything that you think if you think you're going to die and you're a
woman you can say i thought it was a goner if you're a guy you could say i thought i
was a goner if your dog is sick and you said i couldn't get into the hospital i thought he was
a goner it means i think they're going to lose their life okay so it's not losing a race or a
game so don't think if you play a soccer you're like well i thought we were goners it's like no
they weren't gonna shoot all of you if you lost the game but if you feel that you're a goner
it means you feel that your life will probably be over in any situation right from a car accident
heart attack operation you could be a goner if there's not a good doctor right
cool so now that we've done this and you've gone over it that were eight dif those were
eight different phrases or idioms right and as i said most of these you're gonna find will be
in movies romantic comedies or people will say them on the street right um so i don't expect you
to use them as per se so in every conversation but i want you to be aware of them so you can
understand the things that you hear around you a little bit better and as you get better
then you can use them every once in a while now as always i have a bonus for you so what i
did was i picked four of the ones that are most commonly said that you will most commonly hear
and i gave you more slang but similar so in this case out of the blue as i said if you can remember
out of the blue think blue sky something falling down if you come out of nowhere imagine if you
are sitting there at the screen watching right now and i go boom i came out of nowhere because
for you there was nothing there and suddenly i was there so these two are very similar he
came out of nowhere the car i was driving and the car came out of nowhere i didn't see it it just
just appeared tripping i was explaining to you that and i'll just put this one remember
if someone is seriously mentally ill please don't use this it's not funny you can use it for
and people will and it's not that they're bad people they might say my boss was okay in this
case not playing with a full deck you could be mentally ill because when you have cards
there are 52 cards and if you only have 49 it's not a full deck it means everything's not there
that's one thing for talking at a bar or talking or listening to on television it's another thing
to go out and publicly casually say it so be careful with this know what someone means
i suggest you don't use it in public so another word for it tripping and this is this isn't drugs
in this case somebody is mentally ill or you think they're crazy right and i say boss because most of
us think our bosses are not playing with a full deck because they make suggestions and you're
like that's just kind of crazy you don't literally think they're crazy but you think that idea might
be crazy and if they're tripping you think they've got bad ideas and maybe they're crazy
make a pause at someone you can also say hit on someone and i don't mean
punch all right so it's not a case where someone's punching you in the face you go oh he hit on me
that is when you called the police no hitting on someone is similar to making that pass in sports
you make contact because when you hit on someone you make contact with them not touching but you
come up close to them and or you try to bring yourselves closer together with comments right
so you can hit on someone over zoom or facebook so you don't have to be literally in the same room
but it would be you make comments that they know that you are interested in so we can say
make a pause at somebody or hit on them nervous wreck this is why i explained this one again when
you are so nervous you can't do anything because when you're falling apart and this can lead to
someone being really mentally ill when they're falling apart that they can no longer function
this will happen with divorce death loss of job and income or loss of place to live so
they're falling apart it means oh sorry in any serious relationship so it doesn't have
to be just marriage it means their whole world is falling apart and they don't know what to do
so they end up doing nothing so if your girlfriend says my world is falling apart because you left me
she's saying i can't do anything i just want to stay in bed maybe you need ice cream or it
could be a guy saying the same thing and i can't get out of bed anymore they could be depressed
right so when you hear these things take them seriously all right so now we've done the lesson
of course i have to give you homework and what i want you to do for your homework is this
story is a shortened version of this story but this story has all of the explanations
i want you to do it again but put the slang in now for each one and there are one two three four
you can get 250 points for each correct answer you get fill it in the comments section below whether
it be on invid or on youtube or wherever you're watching this and give it a thumbs up if they get
the answer right so some lucky viewers will get 1 000 points which is pretty cool that means you've
learned your lesson and don't forget i want you to go to ingvid and where's that www.ing
as in english vid as in video.com where there will be a quiz for 10 more and other lessons
that i've done on vocabulary grammar conversation listening and whatnot and before i go i've got a
quote for you it has to do with slang uh i didn't catch the person's name who did the quote so in
future i'll tell you who so you can check it out for yourself but because this lesson was on slang
the quote goes like this slang is a poor man's poetry i want you to think about that because
what we do is we take language we shorten it to give an idea just as poems are used to convey
great big ideas beauty and wonder but in a short you know short paragraph and it gets so much that
you can affect our hearts slang is to affect your mind right and as i said future native
language speakers that's our job here and that's your job do your homework and i'll see you soon