Advanced Idioms and Phrasal Verbs 6

okay welcome everybody to today's class we are doing idioms and phrasal verbs once a game seems to be quite a popular series and so I think a lot of people like to just find the book somewhere I'm not sure where you find the book but it's advanced idioms and phrasal verbs if you put it into Google or Amazon you're bound to find it it's a nice white book and I recommend it it's a great book let's get that light off the screen sorry about that hello lollie Lani I've noticed that you come here every single time right from the beginning so thanks for all of the support I do appreciate it so I want to start by giving a shout out to somebody this is a phrasal verb that's been turned into a noun it's very modern English I think young people will be very aware of this expression and to give a shout out to somebody means to to say to someone that you appreciate or you're glad about something that they've done so I've just given a shout out to lali lali so highly and to Sasha hi Sasha and another Sasha hi Sasha but I want to give us a shout out to Matias in Swansea because Matias in Swansea has left me a lovely review on Amazon a nice five-star review for this book which is of course the book that I'm trying to sell you all visual phrasal verbs he's given me a lovely five-star review so if anybody else out there would like to give me another another lovely 5-star review I'll be very pleased with you and I'll certainly be giving you a shout out in one of the east glasses so thanks Matias in Swansea that's a town in Wales for those of you that don't know but we're on to about chapters 8 & 9 of advanced phrasal verbs and idioms and I hope you can see that these this book's very good for revising what we've already found out in this book which you can buy on my website skype - lessons calm or an amazon if you want a physical copy you can get the PDF on my website okay so you're flesh and blood this simply means your relatives your flesh and blood are you relatives you might recall I did a lesson a long time ago not maybe not so long ago but on the topical devices and I remember that we talked about Anna diplo sis which is the repetition of something at the end of one clause and at the start of the next clause or at the end of a sentence and then at the start of the next sentence I think it's a wonderful rhetorical device and so in Shakespeare I remember it was she being none of your of your flesh and blood your flesh and blood has not offended the king so you have your flesh and blood your flesh and blood repeated but it just means your family your relatives it's what you think it means okay to fight like cats and dogs it just means to fight all the time yeah and sometimes you see it to fight like cat and dog you do sometimes see it without the S sometimes with the S but it just means if two people fight like cat and dog they're obviously fighting all the time it's a kind of a simile there's many old and tired simile and I do agree with George Orwell that you should probably avoid really outdated metaphors and similes and they've been used too many times okay there's little love lost between them it means that they don't like each other it means that whoever the them is they don't like each other there's little love lost between them they don't like each other okay to close ranks this is an interesting expression when you close ranks it means that you come together you group yourselves together to defend each other and so usually people excuses of a family may well close ranks in order to defend other members of the family but it could be a group of friends that close ranks it could be workers in a company that close ranks it could be a group of policemen for example that close ranks when one of their friends is in trouble or a group of soldiers that close ranks is clearly from the military this expression to close ranks because I think rank is comes from rank in the military I think so anyway so it's when people come together and stick together to defend each other they close ranks now to turn on somebody means to suddenly attack a former friend it is it has a second meaning this expression but it's slightly different grammar but to turn on someone if a dog turns on its master then it means that at first it's a faithful dog but then it bites the hand that's feeding it it bites its master so to turn on a former friend means that you were friends with this person but then you suddenly attacked them you decided that they were your enemy in some kind of way so this means to attack a former ally or friend now remember that it has a second very different meaning and this would be to turn somebody on rather than to turn on someone to turn somebody on this is a sexual meaning if you turn somebody on you get them sexually excited if you turn somebody off it's the opposite you disgust them you repulse them there's something about you that that person finds very unattractive and very repulsive okay so turn somebody on to turn somebody off they're different from turn on someone where you attack a former friend or ally if somebody is as miserable as sin it just means they're really really really miserable and this is quite a useful word in its own right sin it's a religious concept and it means a bad thing that a person might do a sin is a crime against God basically it's a crime but it's a crime it's a crime against God so it's a religious kind of crime and not law and order kind of crime so very useful word I think and as miserable a sin really unhappy if something is accounted for it is explained so you might say how can you account for the hot weather how can you explain the hot weather yeah how can you account for the lack of interest in this project how can you explain the lack of interest so nice simple one there but very useful to take somebody for granted we did to take something for granted yesterday or the day before and I did mention this one at the same time but I'm gonna repeat it because it's a useful one if you take something for granted you assume it is true if you take somebody for this is always negative it seems to me isn't I can't think of a time when you'd use it in a positive way maybe neutral but usually negative and it means that you don't appreciate that person when you take them for granted you don't appreciate all the things that they do for you so I think I gave you the example of a wife who does all the work around the house and you just take her for granted but in the end she leaves you because she's tired of you being lazy and not helping out it's still something like that but yeah take somebody for granted it means just not appreciate what they do for you and just expect them to carry on doing it but one day they may decide to stop okay on top of can mean in addition to so you might say something like he earns Commission on top of his salary yeah he runs commission in addition to his salary or you might say on top of my salary I earn a very tiny amount from the YouTube videos and I mean from the advertising revenue and so I could say that I get a little bit of income on top of my salary from YouTube now if you live on top of each other this is precisely the same as to live in each other's pockets it means you're living really too close together and so it's usually negative here it means that you are too close and that it causes some kind of problems because of that proximity because of that extreme closeness okay and so very often use for partners to put somebody on a pedestal means to admire somebody but possibly too much it means that you worship this person you think that they're amazing they're fantastic so to put someone on a pedestal is very often negative as well it means admire someone but too much you know really have too much appreciation for somebody too much admiration perhaps you make them into an ideal and it's not real okay and lastly don't if you can see this one down here to get away with murder to get away with murder I think a lot of you already know to get away with it means escape unpunished and we use this as a metaphorical expression to mean that that person King can get away with anything they can do anything they're like and nobody punishes them so you very often use this for kids if a kid can do if they're the mum and dad don't control the kid at all and they never punish the kid and they never tell the kid off then you can say that kid gets away with murder nobody ever does anything about it nobody ever tries to control him or discipline him now if you squeeze somebody out and police say this is a phrasal verb and yep it's in the book of course if you squeeze somebody out then you exclude them from something you very often can you could squeeze somebody out of a deal maybe you don't want them to also earn some of the profits so you squeeze them out of the deal but you could cut them out you could force them out you can even freeze them out so we've got quite a few different expressions for this for this exclude somebody squeeze somebody out cut somebody out for somebody out freeze somebody else but also bear in mind that this is pretty similar to boot somebody out kick somebody out throw somebody out and that means physically exclude if somebody if if you get excluded from school or from university and you can say they booted me out of university maybe you weren't working hard enough maybe you were maybe maybe you were just relaxing and being a bit lazy so they booted you out but if you're naughty in the classroom you can be kicked out you can be thrown out meaning excluded from the room literally sent out of the room shucks somebody out is an excellent example Chuck somewhat out because chuck means flow and so Chuck out throw out toss out they're looking at all possible drop out is slightly different because it's when you decide maybe not but if it's only used for university dropout and education and it's when you stop studying but I wouldn't say that it necessarily means you were excluded you might just you may not have been able to keep up with the other students and so you dropped out now if you leave somebody out you exclude them as well so the next one's exactly the same as squeeze somebody yeah except squeeze somebody out sounds like you intentionally excluded them and leave somebody out you may do this unintentionally you may just forget to call somebody and you've left them out of the party yeah something like that but squeeze somebody out you are intentionally excluding them now if you starve somebody of something this is usually used in the passive and it means you don't give them enough of something that maybe they want or they need so we might talk about a child who was starved of attention and notice I use the passive was starved of attention as a child that would mean that they didn't get any attention at all but if you were starved of love or starved of something in particular that means you didn't get that thing you didn't get enough of that thing and it is very often used for children but you could say he was starved of oxygen when maybe the the people who are working in the submarine the submarine drops to the bottom of the seabed and they oh the oxygen runs out here the oxygen is running out and they are starved of oxygen so it doesn't have to be a tension it really doesn't it could be anything else when you don't get enough of something and of course you can be starved of nutrients or or good quality food or something like that okay if if you back somebody up you support them and I think I've done this one once before but I'll do it again back somebody up you support them you could back somebody up in a fight even if you support them in a fight but you can back somebody up in an argument as well and if you back something up your work on the computer that means you make a second copy and so we want to keep a backup of our work so that we don't lose it when there's a problem with the computer now if you distance yourself from something that means you don't want to be associated with that something you distance yourself from it so that you're not associated with it so maybe maybe you have a few friends former friends that you have turned on they're no longer your friends and you want to distance yourself from them because you don't want people to think you and those people are in the same group maybe they have a terrible reputation for doing for committing some kind of crime and so you want to distance yourself from those people you don't want people to associate you and those people together but you might want to distance yourself from a job that you used to do if it's a terrible job that you don't want anyone to know about so you can distance yourself from anything if you make a point of doing something then you go out of your way to do that thing you go to great lengths to do that thing so you make a real effort to do that thing so you can make a point of helping someone just like you can go out of your way to help someone and you can go to great lengths to help someone so they both have a - whereas this one has of doing yeah they're grammatically different now if you lavish something on someone then you give them lots and lots of this thing it Connor Kate's very well with something like praise or compliments if somebody lavishes preys on you then they're giving you lots and lots and lots of praise if somebody lavishes attention on you they're giving you lots and lots and lots of attention but I think it really doesn't work very well with praise and so I think that teachers have to lavish praise on their students I think it's very important tell students when they're doing really well when they've when they're working hard and achieving good results and so you ought to lavish praise on your students now if you're at the end of your tether which really means at the end of your rope your temper is is where the rope ties you so I think this is a I always think of a goat on the end of a rope and he's at the end of his tether he's pulling on the rope as far as possible or to be at your wits end it means you have no patience left you have run out of patience and you have no patience left to deal with the situation you have no energy left to deal with the situation so it's when you're desperate and you're really annoyed about something so maybe your kids are giving you trouble maybe they keep coming back with bad marks from school they've got mixed up with a bad crowd you don't know what they're getting up to at night and so you're at the end of your tether they've you've run out of patience with them something like that you at your wits end you don't know what to do okay if you're on top of the world you're in a wonderful mood aren't you you're you're in a fantastic mood and being honest I'm in a pretty good mood today so I could say I'm on top of the world if you're down in the dumps then you're in a terribly then you're as miserable as sin yeah where was it here was miserable as sin you're in a really depressed mood yep to be on cloud nine to be over the moon they're synonyms of this one for sure but if you're down in the dumps remember that down is always get someone down depressed someone bring someone down depressed someone I am down I'm depressed and so the clue is in that word they're a dump is a rubbish tip so it's not a very nice place it's where we throw all of our rubbish and so the dump isn't a particularly nice place however so to be down in the dumps / to be depressed and here's a really good one that I think I use quite often - cry your eyes out or to bawl your eyes out they're both mean to cry and cry and cry really violently to cry and cry and cry again so you only pull your eyes out when you're really upset kids again ball their eyes out more often than adults naturally but it means to cry and cry and cry and you can also cry your heart out as well but I think cry your eyes out is much more common and boy all your eyes out do remember this phrasal verb as well I think this one is in the book I'm pretty sure it is I'll have to check though I'm not it's not a hundred percent about that one but please if you like these phrasal verbs do buy my book it's on Amazon in black and white for 20 pounds Carlo is more expensive I'm afraid that's printing costs is 35 pounds I actually make more money out of the black and white version because of printing costs so please buy black and white it's 20 pounds this one's color and you can see the pictures and things in there you've got exercises discussion questions that kind of thing and you can go to my website which is skype lessons comm and buy yourself a PDF version of it 420 pounds which is in color and there are hyperlinks I want to thank you me for putting the hyperlinks into the book a guy who I employed to help me with all of the lay out the formatting put lots of wonderful hyperlinks inside it so you did a really good job and so if you get the PDF 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Published: Wed Sep 04 2019