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different ways to say you yes you I'm
going to help you
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when you try very very hard to help
someone usually when it's an
inconvenience to you or maybe it hurts
you you bend over backwards to help
someone for example my best friend lives
in Rome and when I visited her last year
she bent over backwards to help me
she took a day off work she drove me
everywhere it must have been so much
work but she's a good friend
so again it's not literally bending over
backwards but that's what we say so let
me know in the comments who has bent
over backwards to help you in a
situation write it in the comments I
will reply to you now usually if someone
has drugs and a policeman catches you
usually you are in trouble he's going to
arrest you but there's a there's a twist
to this story this guy is a politician
so he's quite powerful so what is the
policeman going to do he's going to look
the other way
in other words ignore a problem or
ignore something bad in order to help
someone in England this happened
recently there was a politician caught
with drugs and everyone was like I say
recently this probably happens all the
time
happen in your country too or is that
just England again this is a bad thing
something bad is happening you should
help you should stop the bad thing but
you literally hmm this guy is very sad
his relationship just ended his heart
broken
he needs emotional help emotional
support but he's lucky he has a good
friend
dude don't worry let's get pizza beer
watch a movie and you'll forget all
about her I promise you won't be sad
when someone gives you emotional help
emotional support we say that person is
there for this person so he can say and
his name is Jeff Jeff is let's modify
this let's make it more natural you know
every time something bad happens my good
friend Jeff gives me emotional help Jeff
is always there whoops
Jeff is always there for me good friend
you can practice this in the comments
who is always there for you how have
they helped you in the past let me know
don't confuse this with give or take if
you say give or take that's an
approximate number right it's when you
want to say this number more or less
example a coffee in London costs 200
pounds give or take more or less right
but give and take that's different
that's different
give and take means literally giving and
receiving so in a relationship in a
partnership you can't have everything
you want no for a relationship or a
partnership to work you can't be selfish
both people have to give and receive a
good relationship a good partnership it
involves a bit of give-and-take
to hold someone's hand you start a new
job you don't know how anything works
you don't know the protocols you don't
know the people in the office you don't
know anything but your colleague will
help you understand how everything works
how the copier works the code for the
door they will hold your hand like a
parent to a child it could be positive
it could be negative depends how you
think so she could say ah this new guy
started at work and he doesn't know
anything or anyone I had to hold his
hand the entire day it's not
specifically bad all good I mean it
could be there's a new guy at work and
I'm holding his hand while he gets to
know how everything works okay what is
she doing she is showing him how
everything works she's showing him what
he should do we have an expression for
that too she is showing him the ropes
again show someone the ropes it means to
show someone what they should do and how
they should do it these expressions
they're not just for work they're for
new situations you don't know what to do
and someone helps you write not just an
office could be anything this is just
the example I'm giving here one
expression which has a positive feeling
a positive meaning is to take someone
under your wing now a wing that is what
birds have so think of a mother bird and
a baby bird the mother bird literally
takes the baby bird under her wing
why she wants to make sure that the baby
has everything they need and knows
exactly what they need to do so he could
say my manager she's really really good
she she took me under her wing she
showed me the ropes showed me what I
needed to do or yes she could say oh you
know he's new at this job I'm taking him
under my wing I'm showing him the
ropes yeah like a mother bird so this
does have that positive feeling it's
it's good okay this guy wants to sell
his phone this girl wants to buy the
phone she's saying 100 pounds he's
saying no 500 pounds so they're not
happy but they can help each other they
can compromise so they both agree at
something in the middle 250 pounds okay
what happened we can say they met
halfway or they met in the middle again
they didn't get what they originally
wanted but they agreed in the middle I
want you to try to use this expression
in the comments when have you
compromised with someone what happened
how did you meet in the middle how did
you meet halfway okay maybe you're in a
cafe and you want to go to the toilet
but you don't want to take your bag but
you want to make sure that your bag is
safe so you ask your friend to check on
your bag to watch your bag keep it safe
so how can you ask that I'm going to the
toilet can you keep an eye on my bag
again can you help me by watching and
keeping safe my bag another example your
friend is at your house and you need to
leave somewhere for like an hour so you
say please don't let my cat died can you
keep an eye on my cat again
just watch the cat but he's a very good
friend and he wants to physically help
he wants to feed the cat clean the cat
walk you don't walk a cat do
you know walk a cat to physically help
someone you lend a hand or in a
different way as a question she could
say can you give me a hand feeding the
cat so lend a hand
give a hand those are helping in a more
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