Hello and welcome to today's English lesson my name is Stuart. In today's
lesson we're looking at words and expressions we use in English when we
talk about honesty and sincerity let's go to the intro now as I said all of
these words and expressions are related to the topic of honesty and sincerity
and let's be honest we want people to be honest and sincere with us in our daily
lives we expect our politicians or our elected representatives to show that
they are honest and sincere as well and all of these expressions will come in
handy if you want to talk about this topic if you have to describe somebody
and things along those lines so all of these words will come in handy now the
first group of words here well these two groups of words let's say are all
synonyms of honest and sincere so we can see here the truthful sincere candid
frank direct open and forthright or words with similar meanings okay people
that tell the truth people that are honest people that talk to you directly
without you know getting into a mess when they speak let's say so people that
are truthful he's a truthful person she's very
sincere she's candid she's frank she's direct
she's open and she's fourth right forthright and direct very similar words
very forthright with her words okay now these next words here or this next group
of words we use when we talk about honesty and sincerity from a moral point
of view so as I said we want people that we elect as politicians or the
upstanding members of the community we want them to have these characteristics
we want them to be upright law-abiding trustworthy upstanding and scrupulous
okay those are the the values that we want in people you want our politicians
the people we trust in society our friends also we
want them to be law-abiding citizens a lot of the times we want them to be
upright members of the community or upstanding members of the community okay
so these words here from a moral point of view now these two words here
aboveboard and bona fide E or bona fide in the US okay if everything is above
board everything is clear and legal okay it's an honor situation so if you're
thinking about doing business with a company you want the company to be
aboveboard you want it to be an honest company with good values again this word
here bona fide e when we're talking about a contract a legal contract and
everything is transparent and clear and honest it's a bona fide e contract okay
there's nothing that you're going to get in trouble for if the contract is bona
fide e squeaky clean squeaky clean we use this to describe people if people
are squeaky clean it means that they haven't been in any trouble and illegal
trouble for example or they have a good reputation they're squeaky clean
normally quite honest and quite reliable people squeaky clean and this one here
on the up-and-up used in the USA if somebody is on the up-and-up you can
trust them they're an honest person a sincere person he's on the up-and-up I
think we can trust him because he's on the up-and-up okay now when we want to
express our opinion honestly these are some of the ways that we can do it here
these are some of the ways that we can introduce our opinions honestly okay
so for example let's be honest let's be honest let's be honest English is a
difficult language to learn it is a terrible language to learn how to
pronounce for example or to spell let's be honest about that let's face it I'd
rather learn another language maybe a phonetic language which is easier to
read and write okay let's face it in all honesty I
don't know why I'm learning English in all honesty
and in all seriousness and in all truthfulness so as I said ways that we
can introduce our opinions honestly they're okay
now the next ones here open up level with and come clean if you open up with
someone it means that you're completely honest with them you tell them
everything you open up about your feelings oh okay things that perhaps you
didn't tell them before you open up okay if you level with somebody you tell them
the truth okay you tell them the truth you're
completely honest with someone if you level with them I don't think he's
leveling with us I don't think he's telling the truth okay and the last one
here come clean similar if you come clean you confess to something so if
somebody is accusing you of doing something and you did it but perhaps you
haven't told anybody about it if you come clean you confess so criminal for
example will come clean about his crimes he will be honest he will be sincere he
will tell the truth about his crimes okay now these next expressions here
let's have a look at them one by one so the first one from the bottom of your
heart if you say something from the bottom of
your heart it means that you are very very sincere from the bottom of my heart
there was a song a few years ago I think it was Stevie Wonder I just called to
say I love you and I mean it from the bottom of my heart I mean it with all
sincerity okay I mean it with all sincerity the next one is to put your
cards on the table if you put your cards on the table you're showing the other
party or the other person your intentions you're being honest about
your intentions you're putting your cards on the table or you're laying your
cards on the table he put his cards on the table before the
meeting so everybody knew what he was going to do he put his cards on the
table okay the next one as straight as it died she is as straight as a die
is completely honest we can trust her because she's as straight as a die
completely honest completely sincere completely truthful
she's as straight as a die okay the next one to keep on the straight and narrow
if you keep on the straight and narrow you are honest and moral with your
intentions okay I'm not really doing anything bad anymore I'm on the straight
and narrow or he's on the straight and narrow he had a bad past he got in
trouble with the police in the past but now he's on the straight and narrow the
next one had to be on the level to be on the level means that you act honestly I
don't really trust that person I don't think he's on the level okay I don't
think he's acting honestly he's not on the level I don't think he's on the
level he's not acting honestly and the last one is fair and square if you win
something or if you do something fair and square let's say you're playing
cards or you're playing chess and you win the game of cards fair and square it
means that you have won without cheating you've won honestly okay
I won the game fair and square I didn't have any cards up my sleeve I didn't
cheat I won the game fair and square okay although you might not think so I
won the game fair and square so all of these words we can use and expressions
we can use in English when we talk about honesty and sincerity now thank you very
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