Hi there, I'm Drew Badger, the world's number
one English Fluency Guide and in this
video we're going to cover seven more
advanced phrases that every English
learners should know i received a lot of
great feedback from learners on the
previous video talking about advanced
phrases that can impress native speakers
and so I thought I would give you even
more
let's begin the first one is to get
screwed to get screwed you can think
about this in a more figurative sense of
you being turned around or being
controlled by someone else but it's a
negative meaning for some unfortunate
thing happening to you or typically it's
something where someone else's abusing
you in some way you could be cheated by
someone maybe someone took your money
like you're buying a new car and they
say the prices $200 but the price is
really $20,000 so they're screwing you
over there screwing you over
I really got screwed when I was buying
my new car they really took advantage of
me now this is not a very polite
expression but you will hear a lot in
movies and everyday conversations when
people are wanting to describe in a more
conversational way getting tricked or
maybe someone doing something negative
or awful to you to get screwed to get
screwed next to give it a shot to give
it a shot
now if someone asks you if you like to
try a particular activity like skiing or
skydiving or something like that you can
tell them yes I'd like to try that thing
or you can say i'd like to give it a
shot give it a shot and this just means
again that you want to try something but
it's in a more negative in conversation
away
listen carefully to how this plans give
it a shot
gear vid shot give it a shot
I'd like to give it a shot yeah i'll
give it a shot I'll give it a shot
next there's nothing to it there's
nothing to it
listen carefully as I say this faster
how it blends there's nothing to it
there's nothing to it there's nothing to
it there's nothing to it is the
conversational way of saying that
something is easy
this is another great idiom you can use
when you're trying to explain someone
how to do something or you're trying to
reassure them that something is actually
quite easy so maybe you're teaching a
friend of yours how to do some like a
flip so you want him to flip over or
kick a ball or do something that's maybe
not that
difficult so you're telling hey it's
quite easy there's nothing to it there's
nothing to it so nothing to something
else just means nothing is required in
order to do it as another example a
friend of mine might say hey you're
really good at baking and I say oh well
there's nothing to it you just follow
the recipe
there's nothing to it there's nothing to
it next to be in hot water to be in hot
water
listen carefully again to how this blend
hot water
we've got the tea there but the t almost
disappears and we just put a space
they're hot water hot water to be in hot
water means to be in trouble if you
think about yourself actually like a
person sitting in a large pot of boiling
water that could be a lot of trouble
it's really hot and you know it really
means you're in a bad situation but it's
just a more native way of expressing
this so if you're in a situation where
maybe it's not too serious like you just
lost a million dollars for some company
or something like that you're in a
situation where maybe it's like you got
some lower grades at school you gotta
see instead of a bee or something that
maybe it's not too serious again but
you're a little bit worried about you
can probably get in some kind of trouble
for that
so I'm in hot water because i forgot my
wife's birthday or I'm in hot water
because I got bad grades at school next
to read between the lines to read
between the lines if you think about
reading the book we've got lines of text
on the page and if you're trying to get
the idea of something maybe the actual
words don't say something but if you
read between the lines it means you're
trying to understand what's really being
communicated even if that's not the
words being spoken so it's kind of like
an idiom really so if you think about
the actual words the idiom to kick the
bucket just means to die but if you're
kind of reading between the lines you're
trying to understand what the actual
meaning of those words is not the actual
words they're being used so maybe I'm
reading between the lines friend of mine
is trying to say hey like we probably
shouldn't go to that party tonight but
he's telling me this in front of another
friend of ours who's kind of using it as
a code so that my friend is using this
as a code we probably don't want to go
to the party tonight but I'm trying to
read between the lines and under
and what he's actually saying so if i
read between the lines what he's saying
is well he he like really doesn't want
to go to the party because i like his
ex-girlfriend will be there but he's
trying to create an excuse and he
doesn't want to say that directly or in
front of other people so he wants me to
read between the lines so often the
communication we get from other people
we have to listen to more than just the
words being spoken we have to also
understand maybe if there's a hidden
meaning as well so whether this is an
actual thing that's written down when
people are in conversations you have to
read between the lines
read between the lines next you can say
that again when you hear someone say
something and you really agree with that
you can say yeah that's correct or I
agree with that but in a more
conversational way you can say you can
say that again
so if i'm outside and its really hot I'm
sweating off just like had some exercise
and it's really hot in a friend of mine
says wow it's really hot out here I
could say yeah you're correct or I just
sound like a more native speaker and I
say you could say that again or you can
say that again
you can say that again listen how can
becomes king when we shorten it
you can say that again you can say that
again and the final one and this is even
more advanced and I'm including it
because i had a great conversation
recently with a russian teacher who
knows actually quite a lot of
conversational English but didn't know a
couple of the things in the previous
video so i was using this and she also
didn't know this expression either so i
thought i would share with you here and
this is to have something on the back
burner if you think about when you're
cooking you have a couple of different
burners on your stove usually four of
them you have maybe two in the back into
in the front and if you're a
professional chef maybe you will have
some high heat on the front burner so
you're actually cooking something but
you will leave something on the back
burner just to cook and maybe to stay
warm because you're going to use it
later
so from that physical idea we get the
more figurative idea of keeping
something just keeping it prepared for
later use
so right now maybe I have a couple of
different business ideas i'm working on
one but I have a few ideas on the back
burner so this just means that i'll
probably end up using them in the future
or maybe not but they're just kind of
prepared and ready if i decide to use
them to keep something on the back
burner to keep something on the back
burner
well that's the end of this video if
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