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on first idiom once in a blue moon teacher Prix what does that mean once
in a blue moon means very rarely almost never not very often not very frequently
okay for example you know Jamie he gets out of the house once in a blue moon
so here maybe I'm talking here is Jamie coming to the party
Jamie he gets out of the house once in a blue moon
he rarely gets out of the house so when I whenever you see the idiom
once in a blue moon it means rarely okay next example my
cousin comes around once in a blue moon so he's never here he rarely comes to
visit he rarely comes around so that's the idea of once in a blue moon
number two time flies do you have an impression that right now
because of what's happening in the world time is flying I don't know about you
but I have a feeling that time is flying time is passing quickly very fast okay
so whenever you say well time flies so you're saying that the time is passing
very quickly okay let me close something here in my computer a notification
update your driver no thanks I can't believe that I can't believe I
have been living here for five years already time flies so the time passes so
fast and I feel that now that I'm home some people may be feeling the opposite
like no time has slowed down okay but for me time is flying it's already
Wednesday tomorrow is Thursday then Friday then Saturday oh my god the class
is already over whoa time fly so time passes by that's what happens here when
you watch my lesson time flies moving on kill whoops
kill time to kill time time means to do something okay I forgot to do to do
something anything while you are waiting for time to pass so maybe let's say you
went to a doctor's appointment okay you are at the doctor's office and you have
nothing to do so you start to check your phone
you know to kill time and hey have you seen this beautiful case so beautiful
anyway so you do something anything check social media call your mother your
friends play stupid games on the internet to kill time maybe because
you're waiting for something or maybe because you just want time to pass okay
so let's say I have two hours to kill before lunch time this is possible okay
I'm going to walk down the to the bookstore took you time before the flight
this happens a lot to me when I go to the airport especially for international
flights I have about two to three hours to kill I have plenty of time to kill
because I always get to the airport very early because whenever I travel abroad I
get super excited so I go to the airport very early and after I check in I go
through security I have time to kill okay so I walk around I have snacks I
love it some people hate it but I actually really like to spend time at
the airport because this means I'm travelling so whenever I am at the
airport I feel very happy because it means I'm traveling yes and right now we
can't sad to beat the clock oops sorry put the wrong position today
to beat the clock to perform a task quickly before the deadline or within a
fixed time limit so here you have two options or you finish at the right time
you know at the time that people wanted you to finish something or you finish
before it haha you beat the clock you won so here it's a I I like to use this
this this idiom with this idea when you finish something before what you were
supposed to do you perform the task you finish something you did something
very very very fast before the time you were supposed
to do that activity so guys example guys since two of our colleagues are on sick
leave what is on sick leave let's say you get sick you have a problem you are
working but you get sick so you go to the doctor and the doctor will give you
a statement that you need to stay home so then you call the office and say look
I have to stay home so that means starting that day you will be on sick
leave okay when women have babies they go on a
maternity leave okay so for you guys for man just sick-leave so alright going back to
the example guys since two of our colleagues are on sick leave we are gonna have to
work really hard to beat the clock to finish this or within the fixed time
limit or before the deadline so we gotta hurry up my friends we got to work hard
to beat the clock to finish this before the deadline or within the fixed time
limit okay very common phrasal verb idiom excuse me
to watch the clock this is something that we sometimes do when we have
nothing to do when we are bored when we or because we want something to finish
we want something to end so we start watching the clock oh come on time come
on and the time slows down you know that there is a video talking about this
well there are many videos but there's this video I watched that explains why
sometimes we feel like time is going super fast and why sometimes we feel
time is slowing down there is an explanation to that and it's not about
the time about the brain and our perception of
time so when we are doing interesting things well not not necessarily
interesting things but when we stop focusing on the time time goes by normally
we have this impression that time is going fast but when we are bored or when
we are paying too much attention to the time we have this impression that time
is slowing down because we are constantly watching the clock we are
constantly looking at the time we are constantly paying attention to the
minutes to the seconds to the minutes to the seconds because we are tired or we
are bored or because we want something to end this is usually how how students
feel teenagers feel at school on Friday afternoon when they are ready to go but
the chemistry teacher can't stop talking so the kids start to watch the clock
5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. come on they start paying attention too much attention to
the clock so here on Friday afternoons at work all I do is watch the clock come
on you do that too you look at your phone then you look at the clock then
you look at the computer's clock you look at all the possible clocks especially on
Friday afternoons in the summer I started watching the clock as soon as
mr. Sullivan walked into the room I hate his lessons so think of a really really
boring teacher you had in high school and and maybe in university or in
college and the minute you saw that teacher ah you started to watch the
clock okay so that's the idea of this idiom number 6 a matter of time okay now
when you say if you say that something is only a matter of time you mean that
this thing will happen guarantee it will happen maybe
not now maybe in 10 years maybe in 20 but it's for sure it's going to happen
so finding a vaccine to that problem that I can't say here on the channel
is just a matter of time okay it's only a matter of time before people find
the vaccine to this problem we are having right now so it's a matter of
time okay they will find so when I say it's a matter of time I'm basically
telling you that I am sure that I'm sure something is gonna happen it's certain
it's a guarantee it's gonna happen but you don't know when you don't know
exactly when so for example for the vaccine thing we know it's a matter of
time but we don't know exactly when we don't know if it's next week if it's
tomorrow if it's in two months or if it's only next year but we know that
it's just a matter of time that there are many people working on this to find
the solution okay so that's the idea now the other example Jack is so
irresponsible it's just a matter of time before he loses his job again okay so
losing his job is a matter of time you know because he's irresponsible he gets to
work very late so it's a matter of time before he loses his job you know oh well
do you know anybody like that unfortunately I do I know people like
that and it's not nice oh well what you're gonna do and last idiom of the
night in the long run and I use this idiom here in the in the lessons not
necessarily tonight's lesson but this is something that I use a lot here if you
pay attention actually if you watch my lessons and you begin to pay attention I
use a lot of the things I teach I use the phrasal verbs I teach of course
context I use the phrasal verbs I teach I use lots of idioms that I teach here
on the channel because I believe that we gotta use what we teach what
study okay and I like to show you guys things that native speakers use things
that they actually care about vocabulary that is actually important
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button now in the long run means in the long term over a long period of time
okay so not translating when you learn English when you're studying English
will help you in the long run will help you in the long term it's not maybe you
will not feel the difference right now okay in the short term it's not your
you're not gonna feel any kind of impact because you stopped translating but in
the long run in the long term over a long period of time you will realize
that this is a better option not translating when you are studying okay
so this is something that you build it's an ability that you build up okay so
that's the idea of in the long run and I use this a lot because I listen when I'm
watching personal development coaches when I'm watching bloggers youtubers
movies I see they use this a lot so I always try to bring it to my life okay
so in the long run if you stop translating you will get the benefits okay
but in the short run no I know you are worried about this decision but in
the long run this investment will bring better results this is a very common
conversation you have with your financial advisor so here maybe you are
worried about an investment that your advisor told you to to make and then he
says look I know you were worried you are not sure if this is the best
decision but I'm telling you in the long run after a period of time after a long
period of time this investment I'm showing you is better it's gonna bring
you the best result so I'm telling you in the long run
this is the best decision you're gonna make in your life so sign here give me
your name so that's the idea of this idiom
in the long run awesome no matter the time I'll watch my English class with
teacher Prix that's awesome thank you very much I'm happy to know that other
than that my friends today was a little bit shorter because I have some things
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