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 uh english phrase caught 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 all right so one blink is like this
okay 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 idioms about food or at least idioms that use food
to talk about or describe something so in this video you're going to learn five different idioms
that use food all right our first idiom today is take it with a grain of salt and this idiom is
very common we native speakers use this idiom a lot in their their normal daily
speech and it means to not completely believe something that someone tells you
okay so it's like being skeptical if you know what that word means so let's use it in a sentence
so for example some people claim that some food is very unhealthy or healthy for you but i usually
take it with a grain of salt and this means that i mean i'm just skeptical about their advice and
maybe i don't trust what they're saying 100 our second idiom for today is to have a lot
on one's plate okay so you you can say to have a lot on my plate or to have a lot on your plate
and it means having many things to do to the point of almost being or feeling overwhelmed okay very
busy so let's use it in a sentence for example i'm sorry but i can't commit to helping you right now
because i have a lot on my plate and our third idiom for today is cherry pick
cherry pick means to choose only the best or the most suitable of something from a group
of people or things all right so and this kind of means it means to to be selective
to choose only the things that you want so let's use it in a sentence for example
it's dishonest to cherry-pick information when telling a story it's best to be truthful
and tell everything and our fourth idiom in this video is food for thought
and food for thought is it's something that is it's worth thinking seriously about
right so food for thought it's very uh serious maybe a big decision okay or just something that's
very very interesting but you want to think about it a lot so for example my friend gave me some
food for thought when he told me about a business opportunity and our fifth and final idiom in this
video is in a nutshell in a nutshell is a is a phrase it's an idiom that we use in the beginning
of a sentence to summarize something all right so and it means very briefly giving only the main
points of an idea or an argument or something that you want to say all right so let's let's use it in
a sentence here for example i've played many video games and played over 1 000 hours on some of them
in a nutshell i love video games today is another idioms video except this is about family there are
a lot of different idioms about this subject and today we're going to look at about five of some of
the most common idioms that we use in english about family so let's look at our first idiom
it is to be the spitting image of and this means to look very similar to a family member okay so
this is really this is about your face okay it can be about your eyes maybe about your the shape of
your face or something like that so for example my aunt says i'm the spitting image of my grandfather
i have the same nose or the same hair eyes nose and mouth our next idiom is to follow in someone's
footsteps and really this this means that you're going to do the same thing as someone in your
family and the actual definition is to to try and achieve the same thing that someone else
usually a family member has done you can use this with a friend or someone else some maybe a
famous person but usually we use this with family members so for example my dad was a firefighter
and i decided that i will follow in his footsteps i want to be a firefighter too
our next idiom is to run in the family all right so this means that many members of the family have
similar or the same qualities and this can mean physical qualities okay so something about your
face maybe your family is very tall okay but it can also be things about personality okay
so lots of different qualities that can run in the family so for example blue eyes run in my family
my grandmother mother and siblings all have blue eyes and our next idiom is bad blood bad blood
means that there is anger or hate between people due to something that happened in the past okay
so usually there can be some sort of argument or just a mistake or something bad that happened
between two people and it doesn't need to be family so you can say this about your friends but
again usually we would say bad blood between family members so for example my uncle doesn't
talk to my dad there's some bad blood between them and our final idiom for this video is black sheep
a black sheep is a person and it is someone who acts very differently from the rest of their
family okay and a long time ago i think that maybe this idiom was negative it was bad but actually
these days sometimes it can be a compliment okay so don't worry if someone calls you a black sheep
it's not a bad thing right sometimes you can feel uh proud that you are the black sheep
so let's look at an example for example my entire family loves to wake up early and work hard except
my brother he's a black sheep idioms which i think is a really fun topic to talk about
because native speakers of english use a lot of idioms in their everyday speech and there are lots
of different kinds of idioms but today's topic will be money idioms which have many different
meanings and these are very common idioms that we use a lot sometimes every day and our first idiom
is bang for your buck bang for your buck means to get very good value for your money
and in this in this idiom the word buck it means currency or money so let's look at an example here
wow i had a coupon for an extra pair of shoes i was able to get two pairs of shoes for the price
of one pair that's bang for your buck and our next idiom is cost an arm and a leg
uh this means the that the cost of an item or items is very high
and usually unreasonably high right so really too high for you to afford so let's look at an example
i could only find one person selling apples so i bought one it cost me an
arm and a leg all right and our next idiom is cut one's losses cut one's losses means to stop doing
something before you lose more money usually after you have already lost some money maybe even just
a little bit of money so for example the company decided to cut its losses and abandon the project
it already lost money and didn't want to lose more and our next idiom is pour money down the drain
this means to throw away or waste money uh or to not spend money wisely
okay and sometimes this this can be subjective right or it can be your opinion
okay but we use this idiom to tell people if they're not being smart with their money
so for example i know a person who buys a new car every six months
he's just pouring money down the drain our final idiom for this video is penny pincher
a penny pincher is someone who doesn't like to spend much money even small amounts of money
so for example some people call me a penny pincher because i always order
the cheapest food on the restaurant menu idioms and the topic of today's video
is friendship so in today's video you're going to learn a bunch of different idioms about the topic
of friendship and our first idiom in this video today is a shoulder to cry on
and this uh this means the shoulder is actually a person it's someone who listens to you
when you are upset or having a difficult time in your life so for example sometimes people just
need a shoulder to cry on or my friend isabel is always my shoulder to cry on our next idiom is
close knit close knit close knit means to be very close with someone okay like you in regards to
your relationship with them usually we would say this uh about friends so for example abdul and i
have been close-knit friends for more than 10 years and our next idiom is
like two peas in a pod this means that you and your friend are very similar okay this idiom is
talking about your personality and your friend's personality so for example my friend and i
both like sports and music we are like two peas in a pod and our next idiom this is uh
it's not a very positive idiom okay we we only use this one usually in a negative scenario
or circumstance so bury the hatchet means to end a conflict or an argument with someone usually
a severe one okay so the conflict or the argument is very important or it's a severe conflict
so for example my brother and his best friend have been angry at each other for two years
but they finally decided to bury the hatchet and our next one is to be joined at the hip this means
to be together with your friend very often okay and this word here hip
okay it's a part of your body it means the middle of your body and to be joined means together
stuck together okay so i think maybe you can infer the meaning of this idiom so let's look
at an example of it i am with my friend every day so my mom says we are joined at the hip