people use this when they want to say
in order to achieve your goals in order
to be great
in order
to be who you want to be
you're going to have to suffer you're
going to have to work hard
you're going to have to sacrifice
everything
hi this is jack farm to fluency.com and
in today's lesson you're going to learn
10 idioms that people actually use i
know that many english learners want to
learn idioms but a problem i see
is that they often force them
they try to use them when they're not
appropriate and also they tend to use
old idioms that people don't use these
days so today we're going to learn 10
idioms that you're going to find useful
and people use in everyday conversation
now to get the most out of this lesson
watch until the end and learn all the
idioms
you can also turn on subtitles if you'd
like because i have added them for you
and also you can read the idioms
in the description box below all right
let's get started
hey are you uh are you watching the
england game tonight
when did you start liking football well
england might win the euros and
everyone's watching it
someone's jumping on the bandwagon to
jump on the bandwagon means to start
doing something or to be part of
something because
it's popular and lots of other people
are doing it too an example is my wife
and i refused to jump on the smartphone
bandwagon for a long time
i mean we have them now but we didn't
get on the smartphone bandwagon for a
long time and many people are starting
to jump on the crypto bandwagon many
people are starting to jump on the
crypto bandwagon now an example of
saying something similar without using
this idiom is
you're only watching the england game
because everyone else is you're only
watching the england game because
everyone else is
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are you coming to the party later
i would but sarah's under the weather so
we both have to stay home under the
weather
this means to feel
unwell to feel sick
but
it isn't very strong if you're really
sick you don't say that you're under the
weather so you can be under the weather
or feel under the weather for example
i'm feeling a little bit under the
weather today i'm feeling a little bit
under the weather today now some non
idiomatic expressions here you can
simply say
i feel sick
or i feel a little unwell today and i
think i'm coming down with something
i think i'm coming down with something
which means that you think you're
starting to get sick
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guess what what i've just won
a free vacation for two
to the grand canyon
holy that's on my bucket list if
something is on your bucket list it
means you want to do this before you die
so we can talk about achievements and
goals or experiences here can ask the
question
what trips are on your bucket list
what trips are on your bucket list and
you can say
well
i can cross go into the world cup off my
bucket list
i can cross this off my bucket list now
to cross something off means to like
tick check done
done and this is a separable phrasal
verb because we cross
something off a non-idiomatic expression
here could be
where have you always wanted to go
where have you always wanted to go and i
went to the world cup last year that's
something i had always wanted to do
that's something i had always wanted to
do
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all right let's get back to work you
were exhausted a second ago i know
i got a second wind to get a second wind
means to feel re-energized to get your
energy back and we use this a lot in
sports for example
come on team we need a second wind here
i know we look tired but we need a
second wind and that drink
gave me a second wind that drink gave me
a second wind a similar phrase is to get
energy back
for example you can tell the team we
need to get our energy back boys you
look tired but we need to get our energy
back
come on six more
no pain no gain no pain
no gain no pain
no gain people use this when they want
to say
in order to achieve your goals in order
to be great in order
to be who you want to be
you're going to have to suffer you're
going to have to work hard
you're going to have to sacrifice
everything
and again this is used a lot in sports
too so when a team is training
and they look tired and they look like
they want to stop the coach might say
come on team no pain no gain and this
could be used for
learning english too because in order to
reach a high level of english you might
have to do things that are difficult
things that you need to really work hard
at and sometimes things that are
uncomfortable i actually made a podcast
on this and i'll leave a link to that in
the description and here's a good quote
hard work beats talent
when talent
doesn't work hard hard work beats talent
when talent doesn't work hard
hey did you hear about that company you
applied for no what so they just went
under
huh
not getting that job was a blessing in
disguise a blessing in disguise before
we talk about that there's another idiom
i use there
a business going under
and if a business goes under it means it
ceases to operate the business
is no more
now a blessing in disguise
means something
good
coming out of something that you thought
was bad because not getting that job
at the time
was misfortunate it was a bad situation
but
because the company went under it was a
good job that you didn't get the job so
it was a blessing in disguise another
example is
failing his exam was a blessing in
disguise because he ended up playing
soccer professionally failing his exam
was a blessing
in disguise a similar phrase here is
turn out this is a phrasal verb so you
could say it all turned out great
because the company went under it all
turned out great
so um
i've been meaning to get something off
my chest for a while uh-oh
go on
i don't really like our dog get
something off your chest
means to tell someone something
that has been troubling you for some
time something that maybe you're not
proud of or something that's making you
unhappy in the example
the person doesn't like their dog
weird i know and they had been keeping
this
to themself
and not sharing it with their partner
but finally
they got this off their chest by sharing
it another example is you seem a little
off today
is there
something you want to get off your chest
is there something you want to get off
your chest and
it feels so good to get off my chest
it feels so good to get that off my
chest another example without using this
expression is
is there something you'd like to share
and
so
there's something i've been meaning to
tell you there's something i've been
meaning to tell you
what are you watching game of thrones
how is it so far so good so far so good
this means
until this point in time
it's good game of thrones until this
point
is good now if someone asks you
how's the new deck coming along because
you're building this new deck
you can say well there's a lot more to
do but so far so good
there's a lot more to do but so far
so good another similar expression is
just to use the present continuous
for example you can say it's going well
so far
it's going well so far if you want to
tell someone the opposite and use a
little bit of british understatement you
can say not the best
not the best
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will you turn that off it's getting on
my nerves
to get on someone's nerves
means to annoy someone
the guy over there is really kind of my
nerves
the way the way he's talking
the way he's eating his food like what
he's wearing i think he's just so you're
getting on my nerves the equivalent of
this in american english is
he's ticking me off
he's taking me off another example is
he's such a pain he's such a pain and
he's really bugging me he's really
bugging me
oh i just can't
just there's so much to do today i just
can't we lighten up
to lighten up means to have a a better
mood to not take things so seriously to
not be so emotional
about something for example if you say
something
and then the other person gets annoyed
you can say
i was just kidding lighten up i was just
kidding
lighten up or if you realize you're
being a little bit uptight
you can say i know i know i need to
lighten up a bit i need to lighten up a
bit and this reminds me of one of my
favorite quotes
never in the history of chilling out has
anyone chilled out after being told to
chill out chill out
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are you are you ready for this speech
yeah i've prepared well but
i actually have butterflies in my
stomach to have butterflies in your
stomach means to feel
anxious and nervous
to actually get that feeling
of being anxious just like little
butterflies are fluttering around
in there another example is
i bet even ronaldo gets butterflies in
his stomach before taking a penalty
i bet even ronaldo gets butterflies in
his stomach and if you uh if you don't
have butterflies in your stomach
and you feel confident
you can say hey listen
i'm cool
calm
collected or if you're talking about
someone else
you can say
he doesn't get nervous in these
situations he doesn't get nervous in
these situations
okay so those are the 10 idioms
for today
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couple of things to share firstly if you
don't have my book the five-step plan
for english fluency you can download
this for free by clicking the link in
the description and while you're in the
description have a little look around
because i'll list the idioms for you
down there so that you can read them and
i'll also have more resources so that
you can learn english with me okay well
thank you so much for watching this
video it's great to have you here and
i'll speak to you soon bye for now
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