hello and welcome to English like a
native
my name is Anna and today is the 9th of
25 Whiteside lessons which I'm making
especially for you because it's
Christmas
so today we're talking about the word
Kiss A kiss is where you press your lips
against something usually somebody
else's lips or somebody else's skin a
very long kiss with maybe your mouth
open, not like that is called a snog
but we're not talking about snog today
we're talking about kiss but we could
also use the word kiss just to mean
gently touch for example and this is a
secret between you and me because it's
very naughty when my grandma is reverse
parking her car she will say kiss kiss
kiss kiss kiss as she's backing up what
she's looking for and waiting for is her
car bumper touching very gently the
other car bumper behind her and then she
knows she's gone too far
so she goes kiss-kiss kiss-kiss
oh there we go
and they she'll drive forward it's insane
but that's what my grandma does my
grandmother is wonderful so to kiss can
be lips touching something gently or
anything touching something gently like
my grandma kissing the other car with
her car bumper
there are also many phrases that we use
which involve the word kiss for example
I might blow you a kiss
you'll also hear parents say to their
child let me kiss it better
so if a child is hurt themselves out
then the i will say let me kiss it
better and they give it a kiss to make
it feel better
there you go all better in the magazines
you might read lots of kiss and tell
stories it's where somebody kisses and
gets quite intimate with somebody
usually someone famous and then tells
all the reporters and all the newspapers
and magazines so that they can write
about it in all the publications that
everybody to read it's not very nice but
kiss and tell
I never kiss and tell you might kiss it
goodbye
that means you can say goodbye it's over
no chance for example if i was to offer
you an opportunity to do something for
me but you upset me and I want to take
that opportunity away i might say to you
when you can kiss that opportunity
goodbye to go a step further from that
if you're really upset with someone you
could say you can kiss my arse this is
just an expression to mean no way I
don't think so no you can kiss my arse
that is very different to a kiss arse
meaning that somebody is sucking up so
they are trying to manipulate their way
into someone's favor for example if I
was trying to get a promotion at work i
might be extra nice to my boss making
lots of cups of tea make him cake i
might even tell him how wonderful and
clever he is all the time and I would be
a kiss arse
you're wonderful I think you're amazing
would you like some tea would you like
some cake
I'm kissing his arse I'm being a kiss arse
finally we have the kiss of life the
kiss of life is when someone has stopped
breathing their heart is not beating and
they are unconscious practically dead
and you come along you put your mouth
over their mouth and you breathe for them
so you give them breath and then you do
compressions and you're literally giving
them life you circulate their blood and
you give them breath and air and oxygen
so the kiss of life
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