Useful English Idioms that Native Speakers Commonly Use
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- Let's learn some useful English idioms that are commonly used by native English speakers.
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The theme of today's lesson is water, so these are all idioms that relate to water. Can you think of any other water related idioms? Let me know in the comments.
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A really interesting lesson with a great story. Thanks a lot.
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What a great lesson Ana! 👏👏👏👏 I was able to spot all the idioms in that beautiful story you told us. Thank you for providing us with such a wide range of idioms, expressions, structures... 🤗 We are in the same boat thanks to your help and support.😉
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I love you when you pronounce the word "water" , with your unique British style .... excellent lesson...!! Gracias Anna ....!!!
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I Like this kind of videos it's very easy to learn I understand very quickly thanks
To put all these idioms in a so coherent story , frankly you have to be a genius
Bravo 👏
Hi teacher. I loved the lesson the story was very amazing. My favourite idiom is: You are in deep water. Thank you.
I'd like to express my gratitude to you for all what I have learned from you.
You are really a good teacher. Thank you so much, Anna.
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Really enjoyable!
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So enjoyable lesson, thank you so much Anna
Fast, concise and useful! Thank you
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Thank You for this lesson :D
Thanks for the learning. It becomes easy to remember these and similar phrases from the content showed in various text format you do.
Good to listen.
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Today's vedio was wonderful specially the short story method....I have no word to appreciate..please adopt this method from now onward...
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We want more videos like this
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This lesson is perfect and I loved your story! You are such an amazing teacher! 😍 Thank you! I've learnt a lot!
Well done Ana.! A big effort with your story , which deserves a huge thank you. Entertaining and compelling. A fantastic idea to cook up stories like this one ; actually, I usually do the same because it´s easier to get the picture in your mind. Hope to watch your videos soon.
Thanks a lot for the lesson, Anna! Viewed with great pleasure. 😍I didn't know the idiom about thick blood.
Thanks a lot Anna , I was jotting them down
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come what may, my opinion about you is like The Mountain Teide. You know. It means in and of itself, you're my favourite one. In Spanish "keep your head above water"( to survive, to keep afloat) means: " con el agua hasta el cuello"....pretty much: I'm with the water till the neck"...it is a popular Spanish "refran" (idiom). Have a good day.
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What a great video Anna! I knew some of the idioms you explained. I appreciated a lot the final story! And you're such a fantastic narrator! I'll try to work out how to make up an interesting story in my personal experience.
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please do more of these videos
I do really enjoy your contents!! As a self-student I always learn very interesting subjects with you. ( I'm not sure if the word "self-learner" exists but I meant that I study just by myself). Thank you from Paraguay.
Perhaps the world you are looking for is self-educated? Let me know, if you don't mind😀👋
@@laurapavone3513 I do not know which one is the correct to express someone who learns things by himself.
You can use the phrase 'self-taught' - this is the most commonly used phrase that everyone understands. "As a self-taught learner of English..."
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yes 'self-taught' is what they would say or 'autodidact'.
Brilliant story Anna, I felt Jack's longing for the sea.
I can totally relate to one of the last idioms, as once a upon a time I saved a rat from drowning, it did look as you described it: drenched and appalled. But still it had the strength to bite my forefinger and hold on it for a few seconds although I shook it off.🌊 🚣🏊🏽♀️🦆⛲🐀
as usual, doing your best Laura.
Ouch that sounds painful. Good on your for saving the rat though. Thank you for watching and commenting.
This is absolutely incredible and enjoyable! Having a short story with all those expressions together is a huge advantage, I may read it whenever I want to practise. Thanks!!!
Didn't watch it till the end yet, but I need "thrown in at the deep end" related to starting a new job. It happens to all of us.
Ohh that' s a great one, to be thrown in at the deep end = when you have no time to prepare, and you have no choice, you just have to get on with the task (sometimes needing to learn very quickly).
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_Water under the bridge_ to express something in the past (usually negative) long forgotten or never to return... but maybe that's more of a metaphor come to think of it. Not sure if a phrase can be both metaphor and idiom. Hmm, I'll have to look up.
Did you know Anna there are many of this idioms have the same meaning in Arabic language . Thank you 💕💕💕
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1- Keep one's head above water: Garder/maintenir la tête hors de l'eau.
2- Make a splash: Faire un tabac / Faire sensation
3- Be in deep water: être dans le pétrin / être dans la mouise / être dans de beaux draps
4- Be in the same boat: être dans le même bateau
5- Be like a fish out of water: être comme un poisson hors de l'eau. In French we rather use the positive opposite:
Be /feel like a fish in water = être / se sentir comme un poisson dans l'eau.
6- Be in hot water: être sur des charbons ardents / être sur la corde raide / (fam) être dans la merde.
7- Be like water off a duck's back: (lit.) ça glisse sur moi comme sur les plumes d'un canard
ça m'en touche une sans faire bouger l'autre ( refers to the' bollocks'/testies)
8- (Not) be wet behind the ears: (ne pas) être né de la dernière pluie / (Ne pas) être un lapin de 3 semaines ... etc.
9- Blood is thicker than water: Le sang est plus épais que l'eau / 'Le sang, c'est pas de l'eau'
10- Not make waves: Ne pas faire de vagues / faire profil bas / rester discret
11- Be up the creek without a paddle: être dans le pétrin / (fam.) être mal barré
12- be like a drowned rat: être trempé jusqu'aux os (soaked to the bones) / être trempé comme une soupe (soaked like a soup)
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Here's my story.
I'm a bit all over the palace at the moment. If I manage to keep my head above the water, since I'm in deep water with my life and I'm not sure what to do with my job, I'll let you know. I spoke about it with my colleague a few days ago and, even though we're on the same boat (because she's fed up with the continuous restructuring of the management in our company) she doesn't want to take the risk and feel a fish out of water in her family since she's the one single and with no kids.
I actually don't care and I want to try making a splash, I want to be happy. Do you think am I wet behind the ears?
I'm aware that I'll be in hot water when I speak about it with my parents but I have to be like water off a duck's back when they will criticise me.
I also know that blood is thicker than water so I may be affected by my family's criticism.
For sure my mum will tell me: "don't make waves and resist, your job is good".
I've already been up the creek without a paddle when I moved to Malta from Italy, quitting my exhausting job, 6 years ago.
Another equivalent to be like water off a duck’s back is to be like peas off a wall.
Thank you Oleg!
That's an interesting phrase, I have never heard it but I really like it.
Faster the same meaning we've a similar idiom to Blood is thicker than the water in Egypt we say it as Blood is never the same as water ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ
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"You take me for the tide and I am the Deluge".
You said it: It's done; no escape or refuge
Before the coming and furious waves' assault.
They always advance. It's on this word, Deluge,
Poet of misfortune, that your book is closed.
But how did it dare to escape from your mouth?
Ah! to pronounce it, even at the last line,
It took your boldness and your fierce eagerness,
So much it is full of dread and awfulness.
You are warned: it is an ending of the world
That these flows, these rumours, these agitations.
We are still only at the threats of the surge,
Tomorrow the fury and the devastation.
Already for long, seized by vague terrors,
We looked at the sea that lifted its bosom,
And we asked ourselves: "What do these waves want?
It seems that they have like some horrible plan".
You have just betrayed this pathetic hideout;
Thanks to you, we know where to hold and stand
Yes, the Flood is there, fright, inevitable;
To see it coming, for it it's not to call
Yet, we'll admit it, if all of the angers
Of this vast ocean which is restless and mad,
Were only to fall a few age-old towers
That we were surprised to see still stand upright,
Monuments that time decays or corrodes,
And which inspired us a secretive horror:
Barriers to progress, worn-out missal, old code,
Where would take refuge injustice and errors
Decaying altars, decomposing thrones
That purposely narrowed our wide horizon,
And whose wrecks alone cast enough darkness
To delay for long the humankind outbreak
We'd have already screamed to the sea: "Courage!
Cheer up! The work's good that your waves achieve".
But what! to overthrow only a mole or dam?
It's not for so few that she would leave her seat.
Her torrents, dashing over every peak,
Do obey, alas, only blind instincts.
Besides, know it well, these abysses' children
To come from below, are only more hautain.
Nought will satisfy their immense greediness.
Say: " All this, wipe out! but of that, have respect!"
Would only infuriate them to more madness;
To that ocean there, one does not do one's share
What it needs is all. The same blow of a swell
Will wash away before the eyes of the scared men
Lighthouse that rises, the temple that crumbleth,
That which veiled the day or provided brightness
Obscure sacristies and the laboratories,
New law, the divine law and its decrees,
The deep underground ,the high promontory
From which we'd had greeted the Progress already
All of that will make but a single ruin.
The future and past, they go and pile up here.
Yes, we proclaim it, your flood's iniquitous:
It will only topple in order to level.
Should we tomorrow, from delirious bottoms,
See it advance proud of such crashes and falls
At least we will not have clapped with the lyre
To the next triumph of elements so dire
We find in ourselves only some mournful vibes
Since we've known the dread_ful secret of the tides.
We wanted the light, they will make darkness;
We dreamed of balance, and here is the mess.
Old world, sink disa_ppear, noble arenas!
Where to ends its idea has sent its wrestlers,
Where the wise himself, to its sovereign voice,
To fight if need be, descended from the tops
You did not deserve such a cataclysm,
You so fertile still, O old enchanted ground!
From where to make sprout springs of heroism,
A word was enough, Freedom or Homeland
A miry ocean will cover with its waves
Your folds where sublime and great loves would blossom
Dear and sacred ground, made of souls' alluvium,
And which would only ask to heighten you always.
What will the heavens think? What will the stars speak?
When their rays in vain search for your summits,
And from above they witness your disasters,
They who thought they could smile at you forever?
With what eye will they see, from deep of boundless seas,
In the place where once your splendors were revealed,
Suddenly emerge in their dull nakedness,
New continents sans greenery and flowers?
Ah! if attraction to the celestial vault
Did not attach them by such resolute bonds,
They would fall from skies or would change their course,
Rather than light up such a place as ours.
We that nought retains, artists inebriate
By the ideals that our desire pursues,
At least we won't have the pain of living through
To the world where we had hoped we could seize them.
We will be the first that the winds and the streams
Take away broken by sweeping our edges.
In the open chasms of a sea furious
Unable to save them, we'll follow our treasures.
After all, when fatal, will come the hour
In the full outburst of the blind appetites,
Under these waters of hate and brutal rage,
The least to be pitied will be the swallowed up.
Fabrice. 02 02 23
Agnosticism, atheism. My reply to V. Hugo in English.
A quite long philosophical poem where I take the piss out of the biblical deluge, and by extension, of the alleged god of an alleged
revealed religion (in fact all of them), The old world, obscurantist world and its 'powerful representants of divine right'.
A first draft that I feel needs to be still worked on and workshopped a little more perhaps...
But l have no patience to learn every thing l wish l could
You must be narrator
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Good voice
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I wonder how Jack managed to get back to his family. Did he swim through "shark-infested water"? Maybe he and the other stranded Sailors realised that they could achieve the task of getting home only when they "surfed the same wave" and worked together. So they built a raft and paddled home. And this time, Jack survived because there was no Rose wouldn't let him on the raft.
Be wet behind the ears, explanation:
The phrase qualifies someone naive, inexperienced or immature; it alludes to newborn animals totally wet from the amniotic fluid during birth.The mother would then proceed to lick the baby animal thoroughly, but the indentation behind the ears (typically with a baby calf) would still be wet!
Great story, part of it couldn’t be read, wasn’t edited well, or RUclips issue
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I like your lessons,
I am trying to practice RP accent, is your accent RP right?
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Yes I loved the story you mentioned with idioms. It not only helped me to recognise the idioms but also the meaning of idioms. Kudos.
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End : you are very good at storytelling, I loved it and yes I spotted all the idioms, it started with the one with the duck and ended with the one with blood.
I don't have any favourite idiom, maybe to make a splash
Wow very very good this time I really enjoy good story & good acting, thanks.
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A few more:
"Going off the deep end" is to be overly emotional or hasty, perhaps like someone learning to swim by going straight to the deep end of a pool.
"Sink or swim" means to succeed or fail, with no other option.
Take to something "like a duck takes to water," indicates that someone enjoys and/or is skilled with something they've just been introduced to.
"Sweating bullets" indicates that someone is in a particularly stressful situation, probably with a lot riding on the outcome.
"Don't sweat it" tells us that the speaker doesn't consider the topic worth worrying about.
When you've done all your training and prep work it's "time to get your feet wet" and actually experience something new.
"On the rocks" can be a drink order indicating a desire for ice cubes but it can also mean something is failing. Different rocks, presumably.
If someone or something is "going under for the third time," they're probably doomed to failure (or death) like someone who is struggling against drowning. (Based on the popular belief that people resurface three times before succumbing.)
Idioms are such a part of normal discourse that most people don't realize how difficult they can be to new language learners. Good job making these videos!
Great lesson,Anna, I really enjoyed it. The story is great by implementing all the idioms, really well done, did you make up the story?Thank you ever so much,Anna 😊❤
We German say. You're something Green behind the ears. That's different, but means the Same.
Anna.....!!! Our love ain't water under the bridge 🌉 ????
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I like rats. Don't let them get drowned please.
Beautiful lesson, Anna!!!
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Excellent way to teach. The story at the end is just splash.
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I love idom series. Please keep up the good work as you always do. Can't say enough thanks to you!
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