hello well we stopped off at a local pub or bar on the Riverside and we thought
we'd teach you a quick idiom related to rivers I'm very upset that we might miss
the picture moment of the Leaning Tower of Pisa because the sun's going in Harry
Ah, cry me a river charlie cry me a river what do you mean I'm saying you know cry me a river
it's not that bad what I'll cry you a whole river worth of water yeah lots
that's exactly what we mean yeah so you know Charlie is lamenting over a very small
unimportant insignificant thing like not being able to film the Leaning Tower of
Pisa it's not a big deal Charlie we can do it in the morning so very true so I've said cry me
a river yeah Charlie cry me a river that's actually a really good example because
we use it sarcastically so we say oh it's not a big deal get over it so exactly shut up
yeah it's not like you should actually cry the amount of a river over this
because it's so such a minuscule thing that you wouldn't really shed a tear
no so it's complete sarcasm isn't it it's very British for that
reason yeah because we are quite sarky in our humour
can we say cry you a river cry you a river
no it's always me it's always cry me a river
yeah yeah we should say that's a set phrase
that you can't really break out of cry me a river yeah
but maybe you could say like he cried a river could you say in a non sarcastic
sense as well like he cried a river over her he cried a river over her yeah very
rarely used but possible grammatically speaking yeah in which case we'd say
over to cry a river over someone so yeah yeah and actually there's a song called cry me a
river by Bublé Michael Bublé well he might have done a cover okay but I think the original I don't know it
was like from the 60s or something he probably would have covered it cry me a river okay I cried a
river over you and it was like she was really sad to cry a river over someone yeah
so maybe like someone left her yeah her boyfriend left her so she cried a river
yeah over him there you go so cry me a river or to cry a river over someone
onto the Leaning Tower of Pisa now we're gonna get going see you in a bit see you later guys
pretty cool tunnel this very cool
got any tunnel idioms
there's a light at the end of the tunnel
there's a light at the end of the tunnel yeah
and could you say to me like there is a glimmer of hope
yeah there is light at the end of the tunnel
yeah exactly you know something you're going through something that's
quite hard yep I can see the light at the end of the tunnel
yeah so if you've got a big project on at work someone might say is there light
at the end of the tunnel like is it never-ending or is there an end to it
yeah well you can say I can see the light at the end of the tunnel I've nearly finished this big project
yep yep
ciao for now ciao bella
Can you hear that, yeah I can there's a storm brewing there's a storm brewing
right behind us in fact and hopefully you can see the crashing
of the waves yeah they're really aggressive ways we just arrived in
Vernazza and I think that's how you pronounce it Vernazza
Oh I don't know if it's an o or an a and umm the waves are crashing against the rocks
and we think there's a storm brewing and we thought another opportunity to teach
you an idiom exactly and brewing comes from like making alcohol yeah yeah to brew
yeah so I guess that means it's in process it's in production yeah in a way yeah and we always put
it collocate it with storm when a storm is gonna come and we can feel it on it
on its way and there's a storm brewing but we can use it in other places can't we
yeah if there were bad relations between two
countries yeah and you sense that you know something bad was gonna happen
perhaps a war was going to be evoked yeah you could say there's a storm
brewing between yeah you could say like for now like you could say Russia and
America there's a storm brewing between the two nations yeah yeah exactly what
about neighbours or a relationship, boyfriend, girlfriend you could do that yeah if you and your girlfriend are on holiday yeah and
you've been bickering the whole time so you've been having lots of petty and
stupid little arguments yeah you could and you're sensing that is going to be a
really big one yeah you can say there's a storm brewing there's a storm brewing
we're gonna have a big fight soon yeah yeah do you ever have that when you go
on holiday with Stacey do you ever sense there's a storm brewing
I definitely when I had a girlfriend I did that's probably why it ended especially
traveling we're quite good traveling yeah when she doesn't listen to me and
I'm right then then I feel which is all the time oh yeah I'm always right
then I start to feel like there's a storm brewing because both of us are not
aligned and yeah yeah you could say that you stay but all in all we have a very peaceful vacation
or holiday vacation yeah I'm turning American that Americans really rubbing off on you
but we're in a beautiful place we're not thinking about
storms brewing we're just just teaching the idioms to you hope you enjoyed them
see you in the next one
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