Hello, my dear friends! Welcome to Series English!
My name is Antonia Romaker
and today I'm going to teach you some English idioms.
I really love this part of any foreign language!
Because it makes our speaking so beautiful and ornate,
And it makes out speech stand out,
if you used idioms sometimes, now and then,
not too often but still.
OK, so today we are going to talk about sport idiom!
Do you like sport? Do you go in for sports?
I love sport and I love sport idioms!
So the first sport idiom for today is 'to drop the ball'.
Imagine that you are playing basketball
not with this little ball, but imagine it being big!
You are playing basketball and you just... drop the ball!
You lost it! The meaning of this idiom is 'to make a mistake,
especially by doing something in a stupid and careless way.'
So you are being careless - you drop the ball.
You made a mistake.
Alex dumped me.
You mean the blind girl you've been dating?
She's not blind.
Of course not. OK, newbie, how'd you drop the ball on this one?
And don't tell me you cried,
or I'm gonna ban you from the men's room again.
I was just so excited what we were doing here last night,
I forgot about our date.
'How'd you drop the ball?'
'How did you drop the ball?'
So here dropping the ball means making a mistake
by letting this girl go or making something stupid
so that this girl would decide to dump... you.
So that's dropping the ball.
You made a mistake, you did something stupid
and you lost the girl of your life...
The next idiom for today is 'the finish line'.
So you are a racer, you are running
and here it is, your finish line, you are so close! Yeah!
So 'the finish line' might mean also an end
of any kind of a competition, ordeal, task and so on.
Yeah, it's the end of something.
Something important usually.
Where is he?
You are not gonna mess this up!
We are too close to the finish line! Now call him! Call him.
M.J.?
In this video the man wanted to take revenge on the people,
he thought were to blame for his family's death.
And this was his finish line - having his revenge.
The end of his little agenda.
The third idiom is 'to jump through hoops'.
So here you are jumping through hoops.
And imagine doing it, it's not actually that easy, right?
So this idiom 'to jump through hoops' means
to do a lot of things, which seem very difficult
and maybe unnecessary in order to achieve something.
So when you want to get something, to do something
and you have to go through a lot of trouble
to actually do it, to achieve it.
You just think I'm being stubborn, don't you?
Making you jump through hoops when it's so clear we belong together.
I don't think anything, Bree. I'm just trying to be there for you
and hoping eventually you'll forgive me.
So Bree makes Orson do some things he doesn't like.
She wants him to go to the police,
to say that he is guilty, and only then she can take him back.
She makes him do a lot! She makes him jump through hoops.
So very often you jump through hoops for somebody else.
She makes him do this terrible sacrifice for her.
The next idiom is 'to play hardball'.
Hardball, it's hard and you are hard... What's that?
The meaning is 'to act in a ruthless or uncompromising way.'
You are just... like that - uncompromising and ruthless.
Or the second meaning is 'to be firm or determined
in order to get what you want.
...a little problem with how much I'm worth.
I see. Well, Charlotte, that is the standard amount.
It's how it's always been done in the MacDougal family.
Right.
Not only would she have to negotiate, she'd have to play hardball.
Here er are talking about a situation
when a woman, who wants to marry into a rich family,
has to sign a prenup.
And maybe she doesn't want to
or she thinks that it's unfair and so on.
Here Charlotte found herself in such kind of a situation.
So she had to play hardball to get what she wanted,
to make herself worth one million. She's good.
And the last idiom for today is 'to roll with the punches'.
So it's connected with boxing
and you have to like... you know, roll.
You have to move in order not to get hurt.
So 'to roll with the punches' means to be able to deal
with a series of difficult situations.
When there's not just one thing you have to worry about,
but there is a set of things, a series of difficult situations.
We agreed on Minnie.
'S'funny, um, uh, we agreed we'd spend the rest of our lives together.
Things change, roll with the punches.
I believe Julia's on the table...?
Here Ross was talking about this terrible
unimaginable situation, he found himself in.
That his wife realized that she's a lesbian,
and now she's pregnant with his baby, and... yeah, well...
So he advised Susan to roll with the punches,
to be able to adapt, to deal with some problems.
Because there are going to be some problems here,
this situation is not as easy as it might seem.
Well it doesn't even seem easy, it seems... crazy.
OK, so that's basically it.
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