hello aubrey how's it going today i'm great lindsay how are you oh it's my favorite time of
the week recording the all airs english podcast so i'm i'm great i'm wondering lindsay have you
seen the broadway play hamilton you know it's so crazy i feel ashamed to say this is one of the
ones that i have not seen yet i've seen a lot of broadway plays uh but not hamilton what about oh
i'm shocked i'm obsessed i know yes i saw it they did the touring company came to arizona
i've seen it a few times i went with my partner and then we took kids and but then they also
released it on disney plus like a recording of the original cast performing it on broadway which
if anything if nothing else watch that right it's fantastic but i love the music
it's more modern it's sort of like hip-hop style i love lin-manuel miranda okay yeah here's
why it's interesting it's related to what we're talking about today yeah have you ever heard um
alexander hamilton attributed with the quote if you stand for nothing what will you fall for yeah
i mean i'm sure i studied this in school right this is probably a famous historical quote i
have not thought about this quote in a long time what does it mean yeah the reason i've thought
about it is it's in the play he wrote it into the play where hamilton says to burr if you stand for
nothing what will you fall for which means stand for is a phrasal verb that means to believe in
something and take action to support it right and then fall for the phrasal verb means to believe
okay if you don't fight for any causes then you might believe anything that comes along oh
so it's kind of a cautionary sort of warning kind of or saying hey you could be easily swayed in the
wrong direction if you don't take a stand is that what we're saying yeah exactly but here's what's
interesting researching this a little bit it turns out alexander hamilton didn't say that
it's so fascinating sometimes things are misattributed to someone right oh yeah so i guess
what happened is in 1978 a radio broadcast host whose name was alex hamilton oh no no relation
said those who stand for nothing fall for anything and people see it with that name
and assume they're talking about the american founding father alexander hamilton but it's not
but didn't you say you heard it in the play or no did it it's in the play so either lin-manuel
miranda didn't know that it's a false oh you know that it's not really his quote or maybe
he heard that and was like who knows they're wrong maybe it really was him yeah there's a lot
of things about history that you're like who do you believe who yeah we don't know i wasn't there
we can rewrite history a little bit we could take liberties here right i love that interesting it's
true a lot of things are misattributed do you really think einstein said all those quotes
that he's attributed to right there are so many einstein quotes and i'm always skeptical i don't
know if einstein said all those things he was too busy doing mathematical equations right how can
someone who is that big of a genius mathematically also be so well spoken yeah it's not fair you
can't drive everything einstein exactly so today guys what are we getting into aubry i'm so excited
for our listeners because we are tapping into you know literature drama and actual phrasal verbs
that our listeners can use right away today yes that's exactly right you just learned these two
fall for stand for and this is a little bit of a follow-up on a recent episode
that lindsay and i recorded 1770. so if you missed that go back because we shared phrasal verbs for
falling and talked about the verb fall which in itself is quite complicated so if you're not
following the podcast make sure to hit follow all yours english podcast and go back and check one
that one out if you missed it yes especially if you are falling for all there's english
yes which you should be cheesy there i love it i love it so good so today we're gonna go
into it guys we're gonna break it down for you and help you understand this phrasal verb fall
for there's a couple ways that it's used right aubrey yes exactly so the first one is what
we shared in that quote to fall for meaning to believe so if you say you'll fall for anything
you're calling someone gullible you're saying they they'll believe anything right every april fool's
joke they believe gullible is an interesting word right it just means you're very likely to believe
everything you hear yeah that's a bonus word for our listeners today gullible guys write
that one down now are you a gullible person aubry or were you a gullible person when you were a kid
i mean most kids are a little bit gullible oh for sure i was when i was a kid and i think i still
am my husband will often sort of play practical jokes and i believe it every time you would think
i would wise up to it by now little things like he will head to take a kid to soccer and he'll
call me and say you know we forgot their soccer ball or or if he's supposed to pick up another
kid he'll call and say we forgot them can you go grab and i'll panic i'm like okay i can fix it
and then he's like just kidding i believe it every time that's hilarious i'm a little gullible
too i don't know what it is it's kind of like an innocence in the world right it's like a trusting
uh nature to the personality that becomes gullible i guess i would prefer to be a little gullible
than extremely cynical which is much sort of the opposite where you don't believe anything
you're very doubt doubting and negative rather be a little gullible me too there's no heart there's
no harm in that there's no harm in that um so what would be another sample sentence then for fall
four yeah so to talk about falling four jokes is a good one right i always fall for my husband's
jokes she always falls for my jokes and it just means she believes you she doesn't immediately
say you know that's not true you're joking she'll she'll believe it if she falls for it she falls
for it guys write these down these are great little chunks for you that you can again you can
use them right away in natural conversation here's the next one don't fall for it right if he plays a
joke on you don't fall for it yes and i feel like i hear that a lot when we're talking about scams
right there are email scams or phone scams all kinds of things and you want to be sure that you
don't fall for it so this is something i would say to my mom like beware there's this scam out there
don't work i worry a lot about my parents you know they're getting older and i do worry about
old people older let's see our elders let's say it's a nicer way to say it than old people
i know i sort of tested my parents once i sent them an email
because they were selling something on craigslist and i had warned them i said you know there's
these scams that exist so i emailed them and said i want to buy it i'll send you this check
for more yeah you can refund me the difference right and they fell for it and they were like
sure that sounds great so i called i'm like i told you not to do that i made up that email address
so funny that you did that that's really smart i might do that for my parents too
yeah you do you do you know um our elders are such targets and we want to protect them and
make sure they don't fall for things guys right that they shouldn't um so the last one i think we
said this i can't believe you fell for that right exactly right we use it in the past tense if you
were gullible if you believed something then you'd say oh i can't believe you fell for that
okay all right so aubrey let's get into the next one so what is it what's another way to use fall
four yes so it's interesting because it's the same phrasal verb same preposition but with a
totally different meaning we also use fall for to talk about starting to have feelings for someone
to begin to fall in love and it's a little bit of a um sort of a joke that it's the safe way
instead of saying i love you i'm in love with you today i'm falling for you right yeah like
testing the waters how do you feel about me right and i think why is it such a kind of
an easier thing to say maybe it's because of the ing piece right it's the i the progressive
aspect instead of i'm in love with you you're saying i'm falling for you but you could go back
right depending on the person exactly this is the first thing my partner said to me
you know he said i'm falling for you and so then i could also say you know it's just safer rather
than you say i love you and they don't say it back you're opening your self up to rejection you're
you're putting your ego out there to maybe be hurt and we try to protect ourselves
of course we do and our listeners can definitely empathize with this our listeners have all been in
love i'm sure right and props to the person who says it first right that takes actual
guts and so i think that's fantastic you know if you're the person who says it first but yeah so
i think i'm falling for you what else what would be another way michigan how do we use this to talk
about a person's sort of type the type of person you fall for okay right i would never say like
he always falls in love with intelligent women i would say he always falls for intelligent women
it's this more native natural way of talking about someone's type the type of person someone's
likely to be interested in yeah and i think we reserve fall in love with for very very serious
i think in american english we don't use that term quite as much you just said that you would say
he always falls for this type of woman but i think in different cultures they use it more
yes definitely it's interesting i agree in the united states we it there's a lot of weight
behind it so we often will use fall for falling for yeah and remove that weight right we'll say
be careful who you fall for meaning just be careful who you're interested in we're not
saying be careful who you fall in love with that's a very much more serious much more
weight there we're just saying be careful who you date be careful who you're interested in
much more less much more casual yeah this could make another good episode for
listeners i'm sure some of our listeners are you know cross-culturally dating right you guys are
living in the us or the uk you're probably dating someone from here or from some other part of the
world how do you know how to like gradually say the right thing so you don't scare the person away
right and if you're translating from your language you might say the wrong thing that's fascinating
actually yes it reminds me i was dating a boy in belgium and he said in french which means like
you mean a lot to me but i had never heard that expression before so i was trying to translate it
literally which would be like i hold to you and i was like i don't know what that means and so
he was trying to explain it and it ended up being this super awkward thing where he's just trying to
say something nice oh that's hilarious it's true there are phrases where you want to know what it
means ahead of time you don't want to ask someone what does that mean and put them on the spot to
have to describe their feelings even more take it from me it's uncomfortable yeah we've heard a
couple stories i don't know if this is a different person right we heard a story about i i miss you
last time on the show you've had some some drama some cross-cultural dating drama i know it's
because i was right i was in belgium when i was 18 19 the height of dating and being so excited so it
was fun for me to be able to you know meet people and spend time and yeah it happens yeah that makes
total sense i've had my share of cross-cultural relationships i get it it definitely happened so
guys we'll we'll follow up with another episode make sure again you've hit follow on this show
so you don't miss an episode like that i think that's going to be a really good one aubry should
we go into a role play yes this will be fun you and i are discussing a joke that a friend played
on us to use these phrasal verbs a bit here all right here we go i can't believe we fell for that
i know we're really gullible i usually don't fall for stuff like that i should have seen through it
not me i fall for everything so people really like playing jokes on me hey i was wanting to ask you
about that guy you said you were falling for how's it going good yeah i'd definitely say i've fallen
for him but we're taking it slow i'm not sure if he's falling for me or not unfortunately oh
that's a hard place to be in right you're falling for someone and really not sure of their feelings
ugh dating is hard well it's a hard place to be but it's also a fun place to be it's kind of an
exciting moment right where there's that mystery and i think people love that mystery at the same
time that's true that's the one thing you miss out on once you're in a committed relationship
and there's no longer that does he doesn't he you know does she doesn't she excitement so that's
why it's fun to have a little that's why in the beginning it's fun to have it and like stretch
it out a little bit if you can because if you end up with the person long term it's a lot of years
that's true right all right let's go through this aubrey and let our listeners know how we used our
keyword for today yeah so you first used it by saying i can't believe we fell for that right
we believed this joke that was played on us and say uh i can't believe we fell for that yeah and
then we use that word gullible guys that's a bonus word for today write that one down
you said i know we're really gullible yes meaning uh we'll believe anything right we're
saying this we're calling ourselves gullible using this adjective to describe ourselves
as easily falling for something we're clearly not real happy about how gullible we are yeah perfect
and then i said i usually don't fall for stuff like that i should have seen through it and this
could be another bonus for listeners who want to take today's episode to a higher level aubry
real quick what does that mean yeah this is an interesting idiom to say almost like imagine um
a fabric or something that you can see through we we use this metaphorically to talk about anything
that you should be able to see something and don't so for like a joke i should have seen that he was
playing a joke on me and i didn't i should have seen through it yeah another phrasal verb right
that is a phrasal verb interesting oh boy guys phrasal verbs all day long what else what else and
then i said not me i fall for everything yeah it does make people like playing jokes on me because
i'm not the person that's like meh you're playing a joke and it's no fun i'll believe it it's way
more fun they know who to fool okay i love that i love that and then i changed the subject now we're
going to talk a little bit about love right i said hey i was wanting to ask you about that guy you
said you were falling for how's it going okay guys this is that second way of using fall for exactly
you're asking me oh you're interested in this guy you start we're starting to have feelings falling
for and then i said i have fallen for him meaning starting to really like him this wouldn't mean i'm
in love with him i mean i'm definitely interested i definitely have feelings yeah taking it slow and
then i say oh i'm not sure if he's falling for me or not though like i'm not sure where his feelings
are might still be really casual for him who knows yeah you never know find it yeah it's true again
that mystery piece so what's the takeaway for our listeners today aubry yes phrasal verbs can
be so tricky some are idiomatic some like this one have the same preposition with multiple meanings
so here we have fall for with the same preposition so today's episode sheds light on this phrasal
verb we want you guys to be able to use it to have those native natural conversations and
build connections yeah guys don't be afraid to use these right you're learning all these
awesome vocabulary terms on this show but to really get that 99 fluency and that connection
you have to go out and use them okay so think of a scenario or create a scenario to use this
this week right aubry yes definitely get out there ask somebody oh are you falling for anyone yes
i love it yeah that's a good point actually you can start the conversation by just going ahead
and deciding what you want to use that might be an easier way to do it for our listeners right
think in advance what's something that i could ask someone ask you one of the things you could say
do you fall for jokes really easily that's a fun conversation starter or if you want to ask someone
if they're dating anyone use this phrasal verb to ask them all right good stuff great episode
today aubrey and i'll see you in the next one very soon alright see you later take care bye