Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adjective Phrase 64.
The adjective phrase today is high maintenance.
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If something is high maintenance, it requires a large amount of maintenance.
So this is kind of a normal meaning. This could be used for like,
especially some sort of a machine or some sort of device that really cost a
lot of money to keep it up. Okay. But it's the second
meaning that we probably want to focus on more
here today. This is the one that has the different meaning.
If you say a person is high maintenance, it usually refers
to women or it means that a person causes a lot of problems or is very
sensitive, demands a lot of attention or costs
one to spend a lot of money to keep up their appearances or just simply to
make them happy. To be fair I'm sure there's some men out
there that might be high maintenance too, but the phrase does tend to mostly be
used with women. All right. Let's continue. The origin
of this term in regard to the second meaning comes
from the classic romantic comedy "When Harry Met Sally. "
Yeah. "When Harry Met Sally." It's kind of an old movie now. It's
really more than 25 years old. Maybe about 30
years old, but it was a very good one. It's very good classic movie. It's got
got a lot of classic lines in it too. Starring Billy crystal and Meg Ryan. Of
course, when they were both a lot younger in the film. The character Harry
explains the difference to Sally about two types of girlfriends.
Some being high maintenance and some being
low maintenance. Thus the use of high maintenance was born. So this is where
it came from. That's where it started to come into use. That they started to refer
to maybe you know, certain types of women
are high maintenance. Okay. Let's continue. And we have four
examples just of the way you may hear it used in everyday speech.
You cannot afford to buy such a big boat. It is really high maintenance. So this is
the normal one for like objects. Remember this is one that I
often mentioned too. Sometimes when people win the lottery,
it's one of the biggest mistakes that they make they go out and buy a big boat
thinking that they can afford it. They think they got millions of dollars, but
you could really go through a lot of money,
you know, trying to take care of the maintenance on a very large boat. Of
course. All right. Let's continue. Now the , the
next three will be about the second meaning. All right number two here. Are you sure
you want to date her ? She comes from a high-class family
and is you know, into the latest fashions and brand name products. You know maybe
she wants some LV bags and Gucci stuff and all
the latest fashions. So it's going to cost you a lot of money.
She is going to be high maintenance to keep her happy.
Your salary may not be able to support her.
That's kind of.... Well, that's one way. That's literally like with money.
All right. Here's the second one. His girlfriend is so needy.
She calls him every 10 minutes, so he can tell her" I love you. " She is
really high maintenance. It takes a lot of
effort to deal with a girlfriend like that. Okay.
And number four here. I don't know how he stays with her. She
is so overly emotional and cries over every little thing. She is high
maintenance. So again he has to deal with a lot of
emotions. And trying to keep her happy, and you know, trying to make her feel
better. It's a lot of time. It's a lot of effort,
and in this sense they mean high maintenance. Okay.
Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was informative.
Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.