Hello, everyone. I'm George.
Today, let's cover something about death.
Okay. The topic today is very very serious. Because we're talking about death.
Not every culture or language likes to talk about this subject because death is always
something that people try to avoid, or think of it as another journey that is
towards the unknown. But English is a very interesting language. They kind of
use the word death a lot. In this video, I'm going to talk about eight phrases
that has something to do with death, or sometimes using related words. They might
not have the original meanings anymore. And here we go. Number One. To die for.
In English, if you say something is to die for, it means you're willing to give your
life for that. It is always used on something that you really want to have.
You really want to possess. Or sometimes it's just a minor objects that you have
in your daily life. Let's just take a look at the example sentence.
And Number Two. To death.
Usually you would just put an adjective in front of that. So that you
mean you are extremely in that state, for example, scared to death or cold to death.
It does not really mean that you're gonna die. It means that you're close to
death, which represents how serious something is, or how seriously you feel.
And let's just take a look at the example sentence here.
And let's move on to Number Three. Death and taxes. In America people think that
there are two things that are never gonna change and you can never run away from.
That is death and taxes. This phrase is actually from Benjamin Franklin.
which means how serious these two things are. And Number Four.
Kiss of death. When you refer to something as the kiss of death, you're
saying it is going to cause something else to fail, for sure. It also means
something that is beautiful but it's gonna bring down something else.
Let's just take a look at the example sentence here.
And Number Five. Dead serious.
You can actually put whatever adjective after dead to mean how much it is.
So dead serious actually means you are very serious. You are extremely serious.
When you're saying something is very very difficult, you can say "dead difficult."
You can just work your creativity here. Next time, if you want to talk about how much
you feel about something, you can say "dead" and then put the adjective there.
Let's just take a look at the example sentence.
Number Six. Something is killing me.
This phrase does not use the word "dead" or "death" but is using a very similar word
"kill." You know the result of kill is usually death. And that is why this
phrase is here. When you say something is killing you, it does not really mean that
something is pointing a gun at you. It means that it's giving you a really hard
time. It's torturing you. So you can say your test is killing you. Maybe you have
a toothache, you can say your tooth is killing you. You can even say your mom is
killing you. Let's just take a look at the example sentence here.
And Number Seven. Dead meat.
this is usually used when you're warning someone, or sometimes you're getting the warning.
When you say somebody is dead meat, it means that person is in big trouble.
It sounds very intimidating, right? Let's just take a look at the example sentence here.
And Number Eight. Die hard.
The phrase "die hard" has been used in movies. Four times.
Usually if you put these two words together, it could be a noun.
It means a person that is very tough and hard to defeat, like the
character, John McClane, in die hard. No matter how many times he's shot, he's still
alive. Running around. The original meaning of
die hard as a verb is to change or to disappear very very slowly. So you can
also say "Old habits die hard." That means it's very difficult to change
your old habits. It's gonna go with you for a really long time. You can also use
the word die hard as an adjective. That means a person that is never gonna
change. Let's just take a look at the example sentence here.
So these are the phrases that
I introduced today about death. Are there any other phrases that is about death
that we didn't mention here? You're very welcome to leave comments below. If you
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