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In this video I’m going to help you enrich
your speech by giving you alternatives to the word “Stop”.
Now, I’m going to make a disclaimer
right away I’m not saying that using the word
“stop” is bad or forbidden in any way.
You can definitely use it and should use it
especially if you forget those other expressions.
We need speaking practice so it’s better
to say something than nothing at all. But they will
help you sound more natural and add to your vocabulary.
Before we start, I want say a
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today’s topic in the meanwhile. Ok the
first one will be the idiom “cut it out”
which means to stop doing something and it is
used when asking someone to stop doing something
especially if it’s annoying you or you don’t like it.
So for example, my son likes to bang his
toys on something quite loudly, tediously
and he can go on with this for quite some time.
So after a while, I do tell him
or when someone’s arguing you can say
or when someone’s purposely bothering,
disturbing or teasing you, you can ask them to cut it out.
Hey, hey
Hey come on, cut it out!
Then we have “Knock it off”
basically it has an identical meaning to “cut it out”, but a little stronger.
They can interchangeable. Again if someone
is doing something that annoys you, you can say
Another synonymous phrase to
those two is “Quit it” again
used when asking someone to stop doing something.
you can say this to someone who’s annoying you with their made up stories.
when talking about smoking for example.
“Give it a rest” is used when asking someone to stop talking
or to stop talking about a specific topic
again when it’s annoying you, or again
when asking someone to stop doing something.
You see how many phrases we already have.
So when you're trying to work
and someone else just won’t stop talking
you can say
The next one is “Take a break”
is used when telling someone to stop doing
something or to stop working in order to get
some rest or focus their energy elsewhere.
You can say
because you need some rest.
“Can we take a break cuz I really have to go”
“Catch one’s breath”
so when you or someone else says that they
need to catch their breath it means that they need to
stop doing some activity to restore normal
breathing like running, exercising, building
or that they got tired. So
let’s say you’re in the middle of some energetic activity
and you get tired and want to stop
for a moment. Instead of saying “Let’s stop.
I’m tired” You can say
Now a phrase with the opposite meaning “Get down to work”
And there's another one “Let's get down to business” they are similar.
If you say “Let’s get down to work”
it means let’s start working after a break or rest or doing nothing.
In other words “Let’s stop resting and start working”.
This phrase applies both
to your actual job or to any other activity you need to work on.
“Let’s get down to business”
means the same “let’s start working”
or “let’s start our discussion about some particular matter”
Meaning that when a little introduction is over we’ll start working and practicing.
“Call it a day” it means to stop working or doing
something else either because you’re tired
or because you don’t want to do it anymore right now.
You can use this phrase at work or when you’re working
on whatever – some project. Usually you would
tell someone you’re working with
kind of like to get their agreement about quitting for today.
Or you can say to someone something like
“Call it quits” is used in the same way as the previous one
plus it also means to stop doing or
end something permanently. It can be your job
or relationship. Or when a debt is paid
off people can acknowledge this and say
Meaning we don’t owe each other anything anymore.
“Get out of someone’s hair” means to stop getting in someone’s way, interfering
with what they’re doing or to stop annoying them.
It’s a very common one. Let’s say you’ve been asking
your coworker the whole day to sign some documents
and they either didn’t have time or kept forgetting.
You can eventually say
“Get off someone’s back” is used to
ask someone to stop criticizing, nagging or
harassing them and to leave them alone. So let’s
say you tidied up the whole apartment and your significant
other comes home not in the mood and starts
criticizing your work, saying that you
missed this spot and that. You can say
The meaning of this next phrase is very similar to the previous one.
“Call off the dogs” means to stop
criticizing and attacking someone else. But
especially when the attack was used as a
punishment for someone who has done something wrong.
“Hold it right there/Hold it” is used to tell someone to stop,
not to move. Police officers use it a lot.
I say this to my kid on a regular basis
And finally to wrap it up the word “cease”
which means to stop, put to an end or come to an end,
can be used and is used as a synonym for the word “stop.”
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That’s it from me for this video.
Hopefully you learned something new. And I really want to encourage
you to use these phrases. Thank you for your
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