hi welcome to inkvid.com i'm adam in
today's lesson it's a little bit of a
special treat for you guys it's phrasal
verbs i know you guys love the phrasal
verbs but a little bit different
what's different about these phrasal
verbs as is that they don't actually use
a verb they use a noun with a
preposition and together these work to
create a verb
even more special is the fact that they
all of them include an animal
so i take an animal add a preposition
and you get a completely
different verb than you could even
imagine
some of them you can guess because of
the animals in nature but most of them
you're gonna need to be told about so
we're going to look at pig out wolf down
fish for
horse around
monkey with
ferret out
ferret is an interesting animal
chicken out
clam up
weasel out usually weasel out of
something
squirrel away
this is a tricky word squirrel
bear with
duck out and rat on okay so these are
the animals we're looking at and i'll
explain to you each one
so pig out and wolf down they're kind of
similar they both have to do with eating
if you pig out it means you're you're
eating a lot
because the idea is that pigs eat a lot
they're always eating always eating so
if you pig out you're eating a lot if
you wolf something down means you're
eating it very fast
so some people wolf down their food that
they're pigging out on they can do both
things at the same time
so for example
if you're if you go to an
all-you-can-eat buffet you go to a
restaurant you pay one price and there's
all kinds of tables full of food and you
can eat as much as you want so a lot of
people go to these buffets and they just
pig out on all the food
if you're really really really hungry
and you go to a restaurant or you go
home and you make yourself a meal and
then you just wolf it down you like eat
it right away it's gone in seconds okay
so that's what these two phrasals mean
fish for this is a little bit tricky
if you're thinking about fish and you
think about fishermen they
have a rod in the line and they throw
the hook
and and the bait into the water and
they're fishing for something they want
to try to catch some fish
so when a person fishes for something
they're trying to catch
some information or some detail or some
gossip
so if your friend is asking you a lot of
different questions
it sounds it seems to you like they're
trying to get something specific then
they are fishing for details they are
fishing for gossip they're trying to
catch something from you so be careful
with them
if you're horsing around
this was a little bit hard to guess a
horse just runs around and playfully if
you're horsing around you're just
playing with someone or something right
so if you're just like if you go to your
friend and you're like you know push
them but for fun not for not angry or
anything just push him or you do some
little trick or have some fun with
somebody you're just horsing around
you're not serious you're just playful
having a good time okay that's horse
around
monkey with
now a lot of people especially men
they like to get into their car engine
for example or into their home stereo
and they go inside and they bring their
tools and they you know they're trying
to fix something they're trying to
change something because they think they
really know the engine they really know
mechanics what they're really doing is
monkeying around they monkey with the
engine
because at the end of the day they don't
actually know what they're doing they're
probably going to make some mistakes
like a monkey fixing the engine is the
same as a person who doesn't know
engines fixing the engine so if you're
monkeying around you're doing little
changes and little fixes but you don't
really know what you're doing
fare it out now first of all what is a
ferret it's a little bit hard to explain
i recommend that you get on your get on
the internet and do a google search or
whatever search you use and look at a
picture of a ferret
it looks a little bit like a rat
but it's longer and it has fur and you
know it like walks around all over the
place and does all kinds of little
things
if you fear it out now if you if you've
ever seen a ferret in action like a real
ferret
they go into every little corner looking
for stuff looking for food looking for
something
so if you ferret something out means you
like discover
you ferret out the information you
ferret out the secret you ferret out
something you discover
something like a little ferret that goes
everywhere okay they're kind of cute but
not that much fun
chicken out
now a lot of people probably heard of
the word chicken to mean like coward or
somebody who's afraid of something so if
you chicken out of a
situation or uh if you go you want to do
something or you promise to do something
and then you chicken out it means that
you decided not to do it because you
were too afraid okay maybe a little bit
cowardly so a lot of people they they
say yeah this year i'm going to go on a
big roller coaster and then they go to
the amusement park and they get to the
roller coaster and they look up and they
see the big drop and they say
maybe no next year i'll do it so they
chickened out they didn't go on it
because they were too afraid okay
clam up a clam like seafood it's like
this shell and it
opens and closes and there's something
like a clam inside so if you clam up
then you basically you don't speak you
your lips close like a clam and no sound
comes out now two things two ways to use
this expression if you tell someone to
clam up which is a little bit
old-fashioned you don't hear people
saying that anymore but you used to hear
some teachers say clam up
means shut up means close your mouth
stop talking
but if a person clams up it means maybe
they got really nervous and they just
they couldn't speak so if
again in school if your teacher calls on
you to answer a question and you clam up
means you get really tight and quiet and
don't say anything you're too nervous
if you go to a job interview
and the interviewer asks you questions
and you clam up
not a very good sign that you'll be a
good worker so make sure you speak well
okay
now
weasel out of
a weasel is very similar to a ferret
again you can do a search for that what
a weasel looks like
a weasel is a little bit bigger than a
ferret
now a weasel can basically get into
every little space it's a it's a wild
animal you want like a ferret some
people have as pets weasels you can't
have a as a pet it's a wild animal but
it knows how to get into places and it
knows how to get the food and it knows
how to get away from a predator another
animal that's trying to catch it
so when we say weasel out of it means we
can find like a little bit of a sneaky
way or we can find our way out of a
difficult situation
so the boss in your company the boss
wants somebody to work on the weekend
and you say oh you know my mother is
sick i gotta go take care of her so you
weaseled out of the situation and
somebody else had to come in and work
because you didn't want to do it so you
weaseled out of
having to work on the weekend okay you
found a sneaky way to get out
squirrel away squirrels
also look a little bit like rats but
they have a big tail very furry they
climb up trees and they eat nuts in
canada we have a lot of them they're
kind of cute but
stay away from them don't go near them
they bite
so if you squirrel something away
so squirrels if you ever ever see how
they
collect food they'll take a nut they'll
put it in one cheek it blows up like
this and then take another knife put in
another cheek then another nut and then
they go up to the tree and they hide the
nuts for the winter
so if you squirrel something away it
means you're saving it
so some people squirrel away a few
dollars every month for a vacation or
for retirement or whatever so basically
squirrel away save a little bit
okay
bear with so a bear everybody knows a
bear if you bear with something it means
you endure it or you tolerate it so
if you have pain
you have to bear with the pain until the
doctor can come and fix it for example
sometimes you can just say just bear the
pain
but if you bear with
you can bear with the doctor fixing
stuff you can bear with a situation you
can tolerate or endure
usually a difficult situation
now a duck now if you ever hear anybody
yelling duck
automatically go like this because
something is coming at your head so to
duck means to go like this it's also of
course the animal like donald duck but
if you duck out
of a of a place means you
you leave without anybody noticing
so if you duck out of the party or you
duck out of the ceremony it means you
went like this and nobody could see you
and you left and went your way and it's
all good
and last one rat on a rat is like a big
mouse gray long tail go
lives in like dirty places
if you're rat on someone it means you
you tell about them they have a secret
or they did something bad and you tell
the police oh this guy did it or that
person did it or if the teacher
the teacher is writing something on the
board and in the back he or she hears
some giggling
and he turns around the teacher turns
around and says who did that
and then one boy or one
student says oh he did it so that first
boy rats
on the other boy and gets the other boy
in trouble okay
it's not good to rat on people
if you can avoid it avoid it but
sometimes it happens okay so there you
go you have a whole bunch of new phrasal
verbs
remember
all the animals are not actually verbs
but when you combine them with these
prepositions they become verbs with very
specific meanings and these are very
very common you will hear these native
speakers use these all the time so get
familiar with them and make sure you
know how to use them okay now if you
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