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hey what's up welcome to series English
my name is Antonia romaker and today I'm
going to show you that studying English
idioms is as easy as pie it's really
easy it's like a piece of cake
I have just used two English idioms
have you noticed do you know their
meaning today I'm going to give you 6
tips which will make your life easier
they will change your life dramatically
as to learning English idioms you're
going to study and learn them quickly
and effectively so let's get started
first of all context is really important
it's important not just for studying
idioms but for studying anything any
vocabulary especially so you need to
find English idioms in different places
for example in different TV shows there
are tons of them there in movies in
conversations real-life conversations
especially with native speakers of
course in newspapers and magazines in
songs there are tons of idioms in songs
anyway idioms usually appear in real
English when you communicate with native
speakers they are common for speech much
more common for speech and public
writing in speeches in newspapers and
magazines so context find idioms within
some context here you can also turn on
the subtitles when you watch a TV show
or a movie for example or you watch a
video on YouTube you can turn them on
secondly try to analyze
and study small parts of videos because
if you try to watch whole movie in one
day you might feel frustrated as you
will be overwhelmed with slang phrasal
verbs and idioms as well so take small
parts little by little
in addition studying some small
selections of idioms is also a good idea
for example I have a lot of videos where
I tell you about five idioms for example
and usually they are connected with some
specific theme or topic for example
animal idioms or color idioms or clothes
idioms and so on secondly keep an idiom
diary I have been doing it for millions
of years to tell the truth and I really
enjoy doing it I like collecting idioms
they are so intriguing and fascinating
they're great and I write them down and
of course if I do not know the meaning
if you do not know the meaning you
should look them up in a dictionary
better use an English English dictionary
also try to picture the image idioms are
all about images for example a piece of
cake like a piece of cake a piece of
cake is something tasty and easy to
enjoy so if something is like a piece of
cake it's wonderful it's easy easy peasy
to turn ones cold shoulder imagine a
person who's shoulder is cold and you
want to cry on it but you can't it's
cold it's uncomfortable so if somebody
turns
he's a her cold shoulder then you don't
want to deal with you help you and so on
anyway try to imagine things create the
picture in your mind and the picture is
always helpful almost always so that's
why when you see and you idiom try to
make an educational guess try to guess
the meaning judging by the image by the
picture you get in your mind it helps
and it works almost all the time
sometimes it doesn't then you need to
study the meaning well in any way you
need to find the meaning and make sure
that your guess is correct but most of
the time it works also use them use the
idioms to memorize them better to learn
them you need to use them put them into
your own context for example I needed
help from my colleague so I went to him
and explained what my problem was but he
turned his cold shoulder to me and
finally create stories with lists of
phrases it helps to memorize several
idioms or idioms and phrasal verbs some
collocations which you can't memorize
try creating stories you might write
them down or you might just simply
imagine them tell the story and that's
it and now let's train your dragon'
choking I mean let's train your
imagination let's try to work with these
idioms try to create a picture of each
idiom in your head in your mind and
guess the meaning now pause the video
and do it and when you're ready we're
going to analyze them together are you
on so to patch things up when something
needs mending you well especially when
you talk about clothes you patch it you
put a patch on it so when you patch
things up usually do it with somebody
you improve your relationship you try to
forget about some fights some problems
you patch things up with the person now
put this idiom into your own context to
create your own sentence have you done
it you might say I've decided to patch
things up with my sister recently we had
a falling-out but now we are alright a
clean slate to start with a clean slate
it's late here is actually well like a
chalkboard and when it is clean you can
start in you so to start with a clean
slate means to start without any
previous record any previous problems
and challenges you start in you you
start with a clean slate to get out of
once here hmm who when you get out of
somebody's hair it means that you stop
bothering them you stop distracting them
from something you just leave usually
when you get out of somebody's here okay
I see you are busy so I'll just get out
of your hair joking
to back into a corner means to make
somebody uncomfortable to give no choice
to make somebody do something you want
you back this person into a corner he or
she has no other choice no variance
whatsoever he has to do as he is told at
work I was backed into a corner by my
colleagues so I just quit take it or
leave it
it is more of a set expression than an
idiom I have just found the first
phrases I had in my idiom diary and I
wrote them down here so take it or leave
it you can take it well you can leave it
and forget about it forever
so you accept some offer or you leave
you have to make a decision and the
person who gives you this choice to take
it or leave it is not going to change
anything about this suggestion about
this offer so this is how it is
nothing's going to change so just take
it or leave it we have discussed all the
details already so just take it or leave
it okay that's it I hope that now you
know better how to study English idioms
effectively and quickly if you have any
questions if you want more videos about
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different things connected with English
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Russian practice bye bTW these tips can
be fruitful not just for studying
English idioms
but for studying
idioms German Spanish Russian that
doesn't matter the tips will be still
the same