hello Michelle how's everything today good Lindsay
how are you I'm feeling great I'm feeling great but you know what oh
Michelle it sounds like you maybe woke up on the wrong side of the bed or what's going on
yes I guess I just did okay I know I could tell I could tell oh my gosh we start over yeah yeah
Lindsay do you ever wake up on the wrong side of the bed yeah sometimes rarely but it does happen
it does happen sometimes I wake up with a mood you know yeah well that's funny if on the wrong side
of the bed am I literally asking if you sometimes just like wind up and you're on the wrong no it's
on the side of the bed no you're saying do I ever wake up kind of like in a just in a bad mood in a
bad mood or kind of annoyed or feeling yeah it's not really stress it's more in a bad mood right
Michelle right right right and we mentioned this up this expression in um episode 14 18 which was
do you have a chip on your shoulder right um so yeah wake up on the wrong side of the bed you're
just like all day basically you're in a bad mood so somebody might say did you wake up on
the wrong side of the bed yeah I love that I love that yeah this expression has been around forever
and we still use it Michelle right we still use it I feel like it's something that like a parent
says to a teenager a lot like I I don't know well maybe I'm saying that because probably it was said
to me just wait till your kids become teenagers oh my gosh right like they're just like other
they're not even humans right right oh my god um but guys we wanted to kind of take this and uh
and steer it to bed idioms guys sometimes we like to do different theme idiom uh episodes like for
example we did animal idioms the bird Edition that was episode 17 12. and what's another one
Lindsay well we did episode 13 23 that was milk this episode for all it's worth so go and find
those episodes guys on the blog or in the iOS or Android app you can just type in to the search
bar the number and it I'll pull that episode up for you okay awesome so Lindsay do you make your
bed every day I actually try to yeah I do yeah yeah I I don't like to do life because I work
from home right so it's very we it's very weird to me to be at the house working and have like
a messy bed and a messy room I need things to be like I'm not a neat freak I'm not crazy but like
I like things to feel Zen to feel yeah no you're right and you know it's actually kind of uh ironic
because just before we started recording you saw my dad I'm pretty sure it wasn't made I'm pretty
we're telling everyone not Michelle that's funny timing that's actually very funny timing again an
episode once about irony and I think that was ironic like that it just happened to be that
we you know a coincidence basically maybe not Irish but for sure Michelle for sure so now I
know all your secrets I know what's going on I know yes yes you know slob no do you okay
then I'll refrain the question for you do you ever make your bed Michelle do you ever make it
um I mostly like when my mom is visiting so I'm not my parents are visiting no I we do sometimes
make the bed I don't know I I could be better I could be better I don't want to lie not much
no that's okay we've all got our own personality our own way of doing things you're too busy come
on who has I'm just trying to make it through the day um so but let's do some of these bad
idioms so what's the first one Lindsay ooh Bed of Roses fancy right so this makes me think of
like romance novels or your your definition's a little different an easy comfortable situation
okay right oh yeah that was from the dictionary yeah and easy well wait so what do you think of
it as I think of wasn't there like a Bon Jovi song Bed of Roses it was all romantic but
maybe I'm thinking of or maybe I don't truly understand the expression no no that's just
there was a song um by oh gosh I can't even think of the band that was like lay me down in a bed
of roses yeah that's the one I was thinking about were they trying to say to make something easy or
were they trying to say like okay I don't know now you're now now oh God now you're confusing now I'm
getting confused so what's the dictionary let's go back to the dictionary come back to Old Faithful
what does the dictionary say about this expression Michelle an easy comfortable situation so let's do
an example so when he doesn't get enough sleep he's no better roses oh I like that that's
creative or it's no bed of roses getting home in rush hour traffic right I'm saying it's not easy
okay it's not comfortable right right right right so Bed of Roses okay what's the next one to put
something to bed I like this one I definitely use this to end something I feel like it's it's um oh
okay I always thought that was an example sentence it's not it's used a lot about conversations or an
issue or maybe you're having a meeting right let's put this meeting to bed let's end this thing right
it's too much it's gone on too long well do you ever hear this is another one do you ever hear
the expression never go to bed angry yeah for sure for sure yeah so that one that one kind of
like reminds me of this is to put something to bed it's just like to end it it's over let's just like
and yeah yeah does that does this imply making it peaceful or making it okay or does it just mean
let's just stop like stop stop talking about it in your mind I think it's in my mind it's more just
come to some sort of resolution and stop okay come to a resolution and stop yeah because sometimes
we can go around in circles right right so for example you could say let's finally put this to
bed we can't afford that house so let's just try to forget about it yeah sometimes it's healthier
just to do that if something is not going to work out or it could be like moving on from a breakup
that'd be a good example when you're dating yeah and let's say someone broke up with you and you
just you keep thinking maybe they'll come back maybe they'll come back and then you have some
event like you run into them with someone else or something you can finally put it to bed you know
sure closure yes yes yeah um so um well I mean Lindsay what do you think of that expression never
go to bed angry do you try and yeah I think of that more in terms of like interpersonal relations
like with a partner you know you should never go to bed angry with your partner yeah I've never
really heard it just for you like your feeling about something else I've only heard it no no I
was yeah in a partnership yeah that's what I was thinking it's just an entirely different
thing yeah yeah it's probably true I mean yeah I mean I've done it before for sure but
that's funny um okay then and then what's the next one okay you made your bed you made
your bed now lie in it yeah what does that mean it's like you put yourself
in some situation until you have to accept whatever happens so you have to accept the
consequences yeah sounds again like something you would say to a teenager yeah that's right
you have a few years luckily Michelle a few years till your kids get there [Laughter]
um okay so the example is I'm sorry you failed the class but you knew it would happen you didn't
study you didn't do the homework you made your bed now lie in it yes exactly exactly I love it so
write that one down and we have one more Michelle in bed with something so this could be about a
sexual situation but it could also be about a relationship like in politics yes that's where
this comes up the most actually is in politics right how so Michelle well yeah it's basically
that there's some sort of relationship probably the dictionary I also mentioned politics I think
yeah so it's definitely there so like um that there's something not so okay with it with this
relationship so for example he's in bed with big Pharma so just keep that in mind oh yes and that
is so true right this is unfortunately what ends up happening in politics a lot of times people run
on certain issues and then the special interest groups get to them you know they get to them and
then all of a sudden they're not acting on those issues they promise they would unfortunately yeah
right right right exactly so he would say oh he's in he's in bed with the blah blah blah industry
you can't trust him yeah I mean the ones that I use the most here are put something to bed I think
that one sounds kind of cool right let's just put an end to this and to be in bed with right
more in the sense of politics talking about who you know who's in bed with whom like who's being
paid off by whom right corruption is right now I'm watching oh our listeners are gonna love this I'm
watching a documentary about the corruption in FIFA you know FIFA right oh yeah sure it's very
it's very depressing really oh really depressing documentary but it's interesting about how much
corruption there is and has been in FIFA it's just unbelievable just yeah rampant corruption
Michelle oh wow throughout the history of the organization um yeah and so that would be a good
example of when we would use that expression to talk about FIFA okay all right all right I want
to learn more about this all right Michelle so let's get deeper into this I think our listeners
are loving these examples and knowing exactly how they could use them all right so let's do a role
play so we are reviewing why we got some negative feedback on a project so we're classmates here
all right here we go go for it well that was no bed of roses was it the professor seemed upset I
know but I don't get why he's still harping on slide two can't we just put that to bed
apparently not I guess we made our bed now we have to lie in it yeah well he doesn't seem to agree
that the mayor is in bed with the real estate companies well he definitely doesn't ooh must
have been an interesting presentation and getting into corruption local corruption right yeah I
love it okay this is good um first thing you said Michelle was well that was no bed of roses was it
right I like your intonation could you say it again for a listener that was no bed of roses was
it yeah it's like I'm being a little shitcasted sarcastic a little sarcastic for sure and then I
said can't we just put that to bed meaning what again meaning can't we just just forget it just
forget it exactly and then you said apparently not I guess we made our bed now we have to lie
in it so basically yeah we we did something the professor didn't like and we have to handle the
consequences take the consequences right and then I said yeah well he doesn't seem to agree that the
mayor is in bed with the real estate companies he doesn't like our thesis of our project right yeah
yeah nope yeah all right any any final thoughts for our listeners on how they could use this I
mean I personally love the idea of using you know some of these phrases to talk about corruption
and politics and sports right yeah government so yeah so many things so this is really good for
current events right commenting on politics um so I think it's really helpful for that um and
I think these are all useful in many different situations so yeah um yeah yeah it's just more
interesting guys when you can use idioms in your English right don't just stick to the words create
idioms create Expressions show some personality in your English I love it so good Michelle what
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