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i said today's topic is 15 of the most
common english idioms for a little bit
of background about this i chose these
uh from a steady i believe uh i can't
remember the university off the top of
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there was a study i was reading about
the moats the highest frequency which
means the most often used idioms in
american english so again as always for
me this is american english these are
very common
idiomatic expressions
which means they kind of have a meaning
that might not be immediately
understandable so that means
these words don't necessarily they don't
always have exactly the meaning like the
basic meaning of the words so we're
going to talk about 15 very common ones
i hope that everybody can find something
of use for them
so we are four minutes in it is time to
get started i'm going to share the video
and then i'm going to begin i have made
five or rather three groups of five uh
idioms each
so let's take a look one by one all
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first one up here to make sure is our
first idiomatic expression i'm going to
slow down my rate of speech now too so
to make sure to make sure
means to do something so there are no
doubts about a situation to do something
so there are no doubts so doubts
means like there's no worries you have
about a situation there are no questions
that you have about a situation you
don't think
something might be wrong or there might
be a problem to make sure of something
is a common way to use this in an
example sentence i want to make sure
you understand this idiom
so i want
as i said i want
to
make sure
you'll often hear like uh presenters and
like politicians use this word in
speeches we need to make sure something
something something so i want to make
sure
you
understand
this idiom for example i want to make
sure you understand so again make sure
means i want to
do something so there are no doubts so i
want to in this case teach or explain so
that there are no questions no doubts
about something so this is make sure
make sure a nice one to lead off with
from today
and i'll try to check your questions uh
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again i will try to catch as many as i
can let's go on then to the second one
for today deal with deal with you'll
notice maybe it's really hard to see i'm
going to read what's on the board here
there are several so several means many
multiple there are many different ways
to use deal with there are many
different senses of this idiomatic
expression so let's take a look and i'll
share a couple example sentences about
this so first
to deal with something to deal with
something means to do something about a
problem to do something about a problem
or about a challenge like i don't want
to deal with this right now or
can you please deal with this later so
that means to do something usually to
fix a problem so to deal with has this
meaning second it can mean to make
business agreements to make business
agreements you'll know that it's sense
number two sense or meaning number two
when there's usually like another person
or another company or another
organization
after this verb so for example
i don't want to deal with that company
anymore i don't want to deal with that
company means i don't want to make
business agreements or i don't want to
do business with that company anymore so
it can have this one third is to be
about a topic to be about a topic so i'm
going to write an example sentence about
number three here for example so again
number three sense number three
her presentation
this is past tense then her presentation
dealt
with
the economy
so her presentation dealt with
means her presentation was about the
economy her presentation was about the
economy so
deal with
in past tense becomes dealt dealt so
d-e-a-l-t
is the past tense form of deal dealt her
presentation dealt with is the same as
her presentation was about the economy
it just sounds like a little bit more of
a i guess a closer word so maybe if you
want to talk about someone uh that
you're close to or if you just want to
have a more casual discussion
about a topic you might choose to use
deal with instead of was about so her
presentation dealt with the economy
another uh sense the last one here is to
try to accept something challenging to
try to accept something challenging
usually something that is emotionally
challenging so something that is
difficult or something that makes you
sad or angry or upset to accept that
situation we use deal with in cases like
these too for example i'll write one
more
i don't want to
i don't want to deal with this
i don't want to deal with this so i
don't want to deal with this is like
maybe you have a really hard situation
at home or like at school or at work and
you don't want to accept the situation
or you don't want to try to accept the
situation
so deal with sounds like it's
again a little bit more casual so less a
less formal word but it means to accept
okay some examples are coming in henry
says deal with it yes which means handle
it take care of it good um
i saw a different one oh andrew said i
used to deal with that company so when
you use that used to pattern you're used
to grammar you don't need to change the
verb to past tense i used to infinitive
form i used to deal with that company is
correct
okey-dokey uh gertrude says i can deal
with your bad mood good nice nice nice
on facebook uh everyone is saying hello
i don't see oh i don't want to deal with
this
something the past i don't want to deal
with this close one boy okay let's go to
the next one uh the next one
is at all at all at all i spoke about
this a couple weeks ago i think at all
means in any way in any way
so an example of this is this is true i
can't
speak
i can't speak uh vietnamese
at
all i can't speak vietnamese at all so
we use at all as an emphasis
usually at the end of something so in
this case i can't speak vietnamese is a
simple fact yeah i can't in my case i
can't speak vietnamese i can't speak
vietnamese at all that means totally not
possible 100
in any way so you often see it used with
negative situations like negative
expressions i can't do this or i don't
know that i don't know anything at all i
can't do this thing at all that means
that's totally not possible
so at all
is commonly used at the end of sentences
in this way okay on to the next one is
go ahead go ahead there are two senses
for go ahead first means continue to
continue something like oh go ahead it's
fine go ahead with your presentation
you'll hear the preposition with
following it in that case so this one
go ahead
with
your presentation so in this case
in sense one you'll see with after go
ahead so go ahead with
something we usually use this again
because it means continue when someone
for example like this live stream i'm
like teaching about this expression
there's an interruption and someone says
no go ahead go ahead with your lesson so
something was happening before maybe
there was an interruption or a question
and then we want to ask the person to
continue we can use go ahead go ahead
sounds less formal than continue so
please go ahead with your presentation
it means the same thing as please
continue with your presentation though
with continue you don't have to use with
please continue your presentation is
also okay so go ahead with your
presentation don't forget it if you're
gonna use go ahead
second sense though is to go before
someone else
so you can use this if you're waiting in
line so imagine my two markers i'm far
away imagine how two markers are two
people so if this person is waiting but
they're taking a long time like at the
supermarket they might say to this
person oh go ahead which means to go
before me please go ahead so that's like
please um
like take my place go before me so this
is a physical sense please go ahead of
me please go in front of me so this one
is conceptual like please continue this
thing you were doing
all right last one in this group is in
other words in other words but in speech
it sounds usually it usually sounds like
in other words in other words so in
other words we use this to mean another
way to say that is another way to say
that is so this one maybe you can see
how
how it actually is quite uh a direct
meaning of this expression in other
words so to say what i said in another
way in other words so for example uh
we're stuck in traffic in other words
we're going to be late we're going to be
late so you phrase it in one way you say
one expression we're stuck in traffic
in other words meaning another way to
say that is
we're going to be late so in other words
means another way to say that
all right some expressions are coming in
from you i'm gonna go ahead okay what go
ahead someone said go ahead alicia we
are learning with you good nice example
sentence uh go ahead with your
presentation good good good uh henry
said please go ahead i'm not quite ready
nice examples everybody um
ping on facebook said so go ahead we
can't use when ah i missed your message
ping
we can't use when ping where did you go
when someone i didn't
can you scroll up on the facebook i lost
her message or his or her message
it was a good one we can't use it when
where did your message go
when we're following someone else
where'd it go where did it go it was a
good question dang it okay i'll try to
find it uh
when you were with someone else i dang
it i wanted to answer that question i
missed it um okay we'll try to come back
to that in a second i'm looking for your
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which is over here figure out figure out
is our next idiom i'll go to this side i
guess to figure out so to figure out
means to learn or discover after
research so research is like you're
checking books or you're looking for
information so we use figure out
when we finally find the answer to
something we finally solve a puzzle
there's something we now know the answer
to so to discover or to learn something
after
research so figure out is used when we
solve a puzzle
so some examples and figure out
i finally figured out how to fix my
computer so i'll write it here i finally
figured out so figured out this is past
tense so it takes the regular ed ending
i finally figured out how to fix my
computer
so you'll often see
um figure out
paired with so that means together with
a word like finally i finally figured
out how to fix my computer so this
finally
emphasizes it took me a long time maybe
i had a virus a computer virus or there
was some really strange problem it took
me a few days or a few weeks but i
finally i at last after lots and lots of
uh trying
figured out how to fix my computer so to
figure out means discovering after
research this is a key point here after
research after a long uh after a long
time alrighty on to the next one the
next one so far i talked about this in a
grammar lesson recently uh i used it in
an example sentence so let's review so
far means until the present point in
time until the present point so the
present point in time is now until the
present point in time so
you'll see so far
used together usually with another point
in time or maybe like a length of time
so an example
like
so far this year so far this year
my company
has made
let's say one hundred thousand dollars
it's only what january 15 16. that's
great okay so so far this year so far
means until the present point in time
starting
at the beginning of the year so that
means this year is like the beginning
point for this this situation so from
that point in time in this case from the
beginning of 2020 until the present
until now my company has made 100 000
so another point about so far is you'll
often see it with this present perfect
tense so far this year my company has
made a hundred thousand dollars or so
far in this live stream maybe a thousand
people have commented or whatever i
don't know maybe so so far
plus some kind of point in time or some
length of time is used here it means up
until the present point from
some other point so we usually have this
here there are there are some cases
where you may not see so far all right
some examples are coming in some spam is
coming in too okay uh some examples over
on facebook uh hello everybody everyone
is saying hello i don't see some
examples there's lots of spam on youtube
at the moment so i'll continue on uh to
the next one and come back let's go to
the next one make sense to make sense
for something to make sense means
it has a clear meaning it has a clear
meaning so you'll often see make sense
used in the negative for example
this
recipe
doesn't make sense this recipe doesn't
make sense so something is hard to
understand or it's unclear so make sense
is here and as i said you'll often see
it with a negative this recipe does not
make sense means this recipe does not
have a clear meaning or in like a
meeting in a business meeting you might
say that doesn't make sense like this
data doesn't make sense or that idea
doesn't make sense that means it doesn't
have a clear meaning or like we can't
understand it it's not it doesn't match
the situation so to make sense to make
sense someone writes makes sense to me
good good good good someone on facebook
says comments are flying yes i can't
catch up today the comments are all over
the place today
okay uh some other ones uh
i don't see any make sense one so i'll
continue on to the next one the next one
is keep in mind to keep in mind i use
this a lot in live streams and in
lessons to keep in mind means to
consider
so a helpful hopefully a helpful visual
something to remember
is
keep so to keep means like to hold yeah
and your mind is your brain your head
yeah so to keep something in your mind
is like to hold an idea in your head
so when i say please keep in mind or
keeping in mind blah blah blah that
means please hold this in your mind as
you do this thing or please consider
this as you do this thing so i use this
a lot in lessons so keep in mind
something something about like grammar
points uh so a good example for today is
like uh please keep in mind
please keep in mind i can't
catch
all your comments
so uh if you
are sad or upset that i didn't see your
comments please keep in mind i can't
catch all your comments so please hold
this idea in your mind so please
consider that i can't catch all your
comments live okay
uh
let's see some questions are coming in
makes sense uh when something is
reasonable for you you can say it makes
sense yes nice example uh pasta kim uh
whatever you say makes sense to me good
good good
uh some others nora says please repeat
that sentence it didn't quite make sense
it didn't quite make sense so
maybe if you can't catch something if
you didn't hear something you can say
repeat the sentence when you use make
sense it's like the concept was hard to
understand not the words so those are
slight those are actually very different
ideas very different issues so make
sense is about a concept or perhaps
about grammar like the grammar doesn't
make sense for example
uh some examples of keep in mind so keep
in mind not everything can go your way
nice one from henry
sharif says keep in mind we are invited
to a pool party tomorrow oh that sounds
good um
others oh there's others others people
saying hello uh
a dark one from roon says keep in mind
that we all die one day oh my gosh okay
grammatically correct somewhat dark
let's move on let's go to the last one
which is come up with come up with to
come up with something means to produce
or to create to produce or to create
something in response to a challenge or
a problem so like you are at work or
you're at school
you have a homework assignment or a task
your responsibility is to create an idea
so when you create something new or you
produce something new you can say
you can use come up with to describe
that process so an example of this our
team came up with some great ideas our
team
came up
with
some great ideas so points here great
ideas all right
again
we use with
as i said
before our noun phrase here to come up
with an idea to come up with a solution
to come up with
something some kind of noun needs to go
there and past tense came up with so
come up with becomes came up with in
past tense uh we if we want to use it in
present uh present perfect tense we
could say our team has come up with some
great ideas this year for example so to
come up with a solution or to come up
with something new in response to a
challenge or in response to an issue
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one then we begin with work out to work
out there are two senses for this uh for
this idiom
we have first to exercise to exercise so
we commonly we very commonly use workout
instead of exercise like i need to work
out that means i need to exercise so
that's a very common use of this however
number two i'll slow down again number
two sense two here is to solve to solve
something through a process so this is
different uh from figure out like to
figure something out means to research
something
to work out something
imagine like you have um
you have a complicated problem and
everything is like a mess together like
string kind of and you have to one by
one like
solve each little problem until the
whole problem is finished we would use
work out to describe that situation to
work out
you can use it in the negative as well
as in
the plan
didn't work out
so that means like something we didn't
solve or we didn't resolve the situation
did not happen as planned so it didn't
work out it's like we weren't able to
solve this problem or this thing
did not happen as we planned so to work
something out
is like to solve an issue or to have
something go as planned
okay
on to the next one get back to to get
back to has a couple senses uh but they
both have the ones i'm going to
introduce uh have the feeling of
returning
one is physical to return to a place to
return to a place
uh so i need to get back to the office
for example i need to get back to the
office means i need to return to the
office i need to
get back to the office so don't forget
this too i often see in comments uh on
like youtube comments and facebook
comments this too
it's forgotten many people forget to i
need to get back to the office use this
too so you're talking about a location
yeah you're moving to a location you're
returning to a location so don't forget
your preposition your two there
the second one is to return a message to
return correspondence to return
communication like on the phone maybe
you pick up the phone but you're busy
you can say ah can i get back to you
later can i get back to you later it's
often phrased as a question can i
get back to
you later
so again that's question mark so again
don't forget your preposition in this
case as well get back to you yes it's
true you're not moving but we do we keep
that preposition there let me get back
to you later or can he get back to you
later can she get back to you later that
means can he or she return your message
later so there are two senses we know
which one it is depending on the context
uh okay let's go to the last three
because time is running out quickly and
actually these i chose i wanted to
include these because you often ask me
about them so
in time and on time the difference
between in time and on time is perhaps a
little bit challenging to understand
let's look at them individually first
to be in time for something to be in
time for
a meeting to be in time for some known
phrase means
to be early enough for something to be
early this is a key point a key
difference between on time for something
so early is uh is a key thing like
please keep this in your mind as we
practiced earlier so to be in time for
something
like uh is often used in the negative uh
i wasn't
in
time for the office lunch
i wasn't in time for the office lunch or
i didn't arrive in time for the office
lunch in time four again don't forget
your prepositions i didn't arrive in
time for the office lunch means i did
not arrive early enough for the office
lunch so i was late in other words let's
compare this then to on time on time to
be on time for something means to do
something or to arrive somewhere
at the appointed time at the appointed
time so arriving somewhere or submitting
something at the appointed time so this
does not have the meaning of early that
we see within time to do something on
time means to do something at the
planned time
so for example uh i'm on time for the
meeting
i'm on time for the meeting
that means i arrived
at the appointed time at the planned
time i'm on time for the meeting so
here's the expression again my
preposition is for i'm on time for the
meeting
so please consider please keep in mind
these are very different in time and on
time so there are some cases where both
are grammatically correct but they
communicate different ideas like for
example i'm in time for the meeting
means
i have arrived early enough to attend
the meeting that's also correct so you
need to consider you need to keep in
mind what you want to say
all right on to
the last one to take off which has three
senses oh my gosh uh so the last one to
take off has three senses three meanings
first is to remove like removing clothes
so take off your jacket take off your
hat please take off your shoes so we
follow take off with the item we are
removing take off your uh socks whatever
to take off
second sense is to leave the ground so
this is used for aircraft aircraft means
things that fly well
mechanical things that fly so not birds
uh aircraft is like airplanes
helicopters jets so uh to take off
refers to this motion so that moment
when the aircraft when the airplane
leaves the ground so let's watch the
airplane take off that means the moment
it leaves the ground
last point though is number three
maybe the one that you will hear most
often in meetings especially i would say
in business situations it is
to succeed to succeed like a new idea
for a new idea to take off means for a
new idea to succeed often very quickly
so for example
our new product took off immediately our
new product
past tense
took off
immediately so immediately means right
away or very very fast after starting
our new product
took off sorry hard to see took off past
tense of take off so that means it
succeeded right away it succeeded very
quickly our new product took off
immediately so there are three different
senses of this word
all right
phew that is everything so yes today i
talked about 15 of the most common
english idioms yes but as we talked
about many of these have multiple uses
so i hope that you found something new
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