Hi. My name's Ronnie.
I'm going to teach you some words.
The inspiration came as a sign, literally.
I walked into the magical place of unicorns and magicians, where we record
these videos, and I saw a wizard holding a sign that said: "OVER", and I said:
"Oo, cool sign. It says 'OVER'."
Lesson, lesson, lesson, done. So, I'm going to teach you some expressions
that we use with "over".
Now, the cool thing about "over" is if you look at this side of the board,
all of these words are going to have one thing in common, and it is, of course, the word "over".
So, in English when you're learning new vocabulary and you see the word "over" plus another word,
it has a very, very important meaning. And this one means "too much" or "too many". So,
if you're learning new vocabulary, if you're reading something and you are not sure what
the word means, you're going to know "over", "over" means too much or too many of something.
So, let's check out what these words mean.
First of all: "overreact". This means you take something too far. Let's say that, for
example, I drop my marker. Instead of picking it up and going: "I dropped my marker",
I would freak out and go: "Oh my god! I dropped my marker! What am I going to do? Oh!"
This is overreacting or being overemotional.
You tell the person: "Hey, calm down. Do not overreact. You're reacting or being too emotional."
So, "overreact" means too many or too much action;
too many emotions are coming out. Chill down and relax.
"Overused". "Overused" means you use something too much.
So maybe you overuse your cellphone,
maybe you always use your cellphone, and one day your cellphone dies and goes "ppft", nope.
You've overused something because you've used it too much.
This is my daily life. Every day I wake up, have a shower, smell good,
and I listen to the radio.
Now, I like music a lot, but I have a big problem with the radio and the
problem is that they "overplay" or they have "overplayed" songs. This means they play one
song every day. Guess what? There are millions upon millions of songs out there. I do not
want to have to listen to the same song every day at the same time. Without fail, they will
overplay a song. Usually what happens is you hear the song, you're like:
"Enh, I don't mind it." You hear it again a couple times, you're like:
"Oh, I quite like this song."
And then the magic happens, they overplay it - "ppft", it's gone.
You can't stand the song because it's overplayed.
They play it all the time. You go shopping:
"Oh, there's that song again." Every place you go, you hear that song. The song is overplayed.
This is what happens at work. Do you work too much? If you work too much, you say:
"I am overworked." It means I work too much.
Uh-oh, sometimes maybe once in a while if you are lucky, you would get to go on vacation
-woo-hoo-
so you have your airplane ticket, you're on your flight, you get to the hotel and they say:
"Uh, we don't have a room for you."
"This is my reservation number, this is my name.
Why don't you have a room?" They will say:
-"We're overbooked."
-"Uh, you have too many books?" No.
"Overbooked" means they have too many reservations and not enough rooms, or
they don't have enough space. Overbooked can happen in a restaurant, it can happen with
reservations, in a movie theatre, no, or... Not a movie theatre. If you book a play or
something, they have not enough seats, too many people. Also an airplane, if you book
a ticket, it's overbooked, there's too many people. Not enough seats, too many humans.
Mm-hmm.
If you don't understand something, it's "over your head".
Maybe you go to school or maybe
you're talking to someone, and what they're saying to you does not make sense,
you can say: "It's over my head." You don't understand. No comprende. Don't understand.
Next: "overdrawn". Uh-oh. This is really, really, really bad because it has to do with
money. If your bank account is overdrawn, it means you've taken out too much money that
you don't have. If this happens to you, the bank will also charge you fees.
They're called "overdrawn fees" maybe. This is a bad situation.
Something else you can be is "overloaded". You can be overloaded with work, or you can
be overloaded with projects. Never overloaded with money. That's a problem.
This is a good thing. Maybe you're going to go to the store and they have a sale-oo-or
they advertise a sale of something being "overstocked".
So, "overstocked" means they have too much
or too many of one product. What the store will do is reduce the price, and get it out
of the store. Maybe it's expired, which means it's a little old. Nevertheless, overstocked
is a good thing for you, because you get a discount.
And last one: "overfriendly". Do you know a person who is overfriendly?
"Overfriendly" means they are too friendly. You just want to smack them,
because they're always super, super, super friendly to you, and maybe
you don't really like them or you just don't want
to be their friend, they're overfriendly; they're too friendly.
Now, one thing that's really important in English that you have to really, really, really,
really understand is that in English, if you have too much or too many, or just "too",
it's always a negative situation.
"Too" is never positive. You will never say:
"I have too much money."
Never, ever. Okay? So "too", "too much", "too many" is bad. "Over" is bad.
Let's go backwards. Dunh-dunh-dunh. What we're going to do is some expressions that use "over".
So, if something is "all over", it means it is finished. So the play's all over,
or your life is... No, your life is not all over.
You can "knock someone over",
so you might knock them over in a car-don't do that-or
you could hit the person-don't do that-and they fall down or they "fall over". Mm-hmm.
So "knock someone over" is the action that you hit them and they fall. "Fall over" is
the same as like collapse or fall down.
This we will use a lot in business, a company will "take over" another company.
This basically means that they will eat your company,
and you will lose your job. This is not a good
thing. The other thing... The other way we use "take over" is a person who is domineering
can take over something. So, maybe you're having a conversation with your friends, and
another person who's maybe a little overfriendly comes in, and starts talking louder and more
than the other people in the conversation. They're taking something over. This is never
a good thing. People can take over a country, people can take over your apartment, cockroaches
can take over your apartment, they can invade your apartment; take over.
If this happens, you have to "start all over".
You don't need to say "start all over", you can just say "start over". So,
"start all over" or "start over" means to begin again.
"Over and over" just means again and again. This expression, this slang:
"I'm so over it!"
means I've had enough, I'm done, I'm out of here.
I'm over it.