hello everyone welcome to idiom 100
where we learn 100 commonly used idioms
by native English speakers
all of the explanations are in English
so it might be challenging for you but
just try to imagine the meanings in your
head and study hard and soon you'll be
able to use these idioms in your
conversations
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everyone nice to see you
today's idiom is blessing in disguise
blessing in disguise
alright so let's break down the meaning
of the words in this idiom first we have
blessing which means kind of good luck
something good is a blessing alright and
the second word is disguise and disguise
is kind of a costume something that
makes you look different from what you
are right at Halloween we wear disguise
or a costume and you change to be a
vampire or something different yet
disguise all right so let's imagine a
picture and in this imagination in this
picture we have a big box okay and the
box has a sign the sign says you are
fired you are fired yeah you lost your
job okay the box says you're fired and
oh no it's a disguise it's a costume
we're going to take off the disguise and
in the box it says you have free time
for a vacation to Hawaii all right so
the outside of the box said you are
fired and we took off the disguise and
it's a blessing right it says free time
for vacation yeah it was a blessing in
disguise alright so let's listen to some
examples and try to understand how to
use this idiom
hey I'm sorry you didn't get the house
that you wanted yeah but it turns out it
was rat infested so it was a blessing in
disguise all right what this means so
they didn't get the house maybe another
family paid a higher price and they got
the house so it seems very sad and
unfortunate right Oh
so the disguise oh we didn't get the
house right but look underneath and the
blessing the good thing it's actually
good they didn't get the house because
it had a lot of rats in the house it was
rat infested right so if they got the
house it would be really bad they have
rats everywhere so actually it was a
blessing in disguise
at first they were disappointed and then
they heard about the rats Oh shoo
we're lucky we didn't get the house yeah
it was a blessing in disguise
all right so let's listen to the second
example I'm sorry your vacation plans
fell through and got ruined thanks but
actually it was a blessing in disguise
because a hurricane had hit Hawaii and
all the passengers were stuck at Narita
right so hmm
okay so they wanted to go to Hawaii but
they couldn't go and they're
disappointed but that was the disguise
and the blessing was they didn't get
stuck at Narita like everyone else
because of the hurricane right so they
thought oh we can't go to Hawaii uh-oh
if we went we would be stuck at Narita
so it's a good thing we didn't go all
right so blessing in disguise is very
useful idiom to use
when something bad happens and you're
disappointed but later on you realize
you're lucky it happened or didn't
happen yet in the end it was a good
thing that it happened like it did yeah
so for example in the first example you
didn't get the house misfortune but
later you don't have rats it's a good
thing or you didn't go to Hawaii and
later up you didn't get stuck at Narita
because of the air because of the
hurricane right so to say it's a
blessing in disguise is to say that it
was a bad thing but later you can see it
was a good thing alright so let's try
using it next time you have such a
situation in your life and I'll see you
around next time