hello everyone and welcome to the english danny channel i'm teacher john and i'm here to help you
become great at learning english today's video is the fourth video in our series about idioms
and in this video you will learn about english idioms about time so let's get started right
away all right our first idiom is good timing and good timing is different from the other
english phrase that that is used called good time okay so for this phrase we always use the word
time in okay and good timing is it means that something that has
or is good timing occurs at a lucky time all right so let's see it in an example okay for example
it started to rain just as we arrived at the train station we didn't have an umbrella
so that was good timing so our next idiom is time is on my side okay and maybe you're thinking about
oh my side what does that mean well it doesn't mean right about your body or anything like that
it means that time is helping you in a way all right so this means that you have a lot of time
to do something time is on my side it's helping me okay so let's look at an example i have
a lot of homework but since it's not due until next month time is on my side idiom number three
is working against the clock and this means that you don't have a lot of time to do something
all right so it's kind of the opposite of the uh our second idiom that we just learned
so for example i have a lot of homework that's due tonight so i'm working against the clock all right
and idiom number four is in the blink of an eye all right and this means that something happened
very quickly okay and the key words in this idiom really is blink okay blink of an eye all right
a blink is when your eye closes very quickly and then opens again alright so one blink is like this
it's very fast okay so now you can see where the idiom comes from so let's look at an example
the airplane flew over my house and then disappeared in the blink of an eye so very
quickly the airplane disappeared and our fifth and final idiom for this video is time flies
all right this means that time passes very quickly um a lot of students think that this idiom is very
funny right because time cannot fly away it can't fly in the sky but this is just a phrase to mean
that like something that flies usually is very fast so when we say that time flies it just means
it's very fast time passed very quickly so let's look at our example
for example i was playing with my friends when i realized it was night time
time flies alright and that's our video for today so if you enjoyed this video please give us a like
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