Learn the English Phrases "My heart skipped a beat!" and "a hop, skip, and a jump"

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you
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learn the English expression my heart skipped a beat.
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Now this can be used in a couple of ways.
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It can be used in a romantic way.
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Like I could say, the first time I met Jen,
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my heart skipped a beat, meaning that I found her
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attractive and I was excited to see her.
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So my heart skipped a beat.
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Like ba bump, buh bump, buh bump, buh bump.
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It can also be used for something
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that's a little bit scary, though.
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As a parent, if the phone rings in the
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middle of the night, my heart skips a beat
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because it makes me think that maybe one of
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my children, maybe something bad has happened to them.
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If you are my age and if you have teenage
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children and if they are supposed to come home at
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midnight and it's one in the morning and the phone
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rings, usually my heart skips a beat.
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So when you say my heart skipped
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a beat, it's the past tense.
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It means that something exciting happened
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or something a little bit scary happened.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you
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today is a hop, skip and a jump.
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I think this comes from triple jump in the... the Olympic
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sport where you hop, skip and jump, but we use
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this to refer to something being not far away.
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I could say my brother just lives a
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hop, skip and a jump from here.
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That's not true, actually.
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My sister lives a hop, skip and a jump from here.
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My brother lives a little bit further away.
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So it's used to talk about distance
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and it means not very far.
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So to review, if you say my heart skipped
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a beat, it could mean that something exciting happened
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or it could mean that something scary happened.
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And if you say something is a hop, skip and
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a jump from here or a hop, skip and a
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jump away, it means it's really, really close.
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If you hopped and then did a little
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skip and a jump, you would be there.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Judit.
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Let me get it open here.
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Or Aerosmith77 as she also goes by.
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Thanks for this short video, Bob.
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I hope it doesn't mean that
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you skip tomorrow's video though.
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I was happy to hear that you are getting
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ready to make a live stream on Friday.
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I am looking forward to it and my
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response I'm getting ready to go out and
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shoot the lesson now, so no skipping.
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I guess I'm in the middle of shooting the lesson.
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Thanks Judit for that comment.
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Yeah, I am definitely out here making a lesson
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and putting this lesson up for Wednesday morning.
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So this will be ready to go.
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I'll do a little bit of editing on it as
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when I go back in the house and it will
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be ready for all of you to watch.
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So a little update.
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I have switched from a winter coat to a spring jacket.
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I might have referred to this
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as my fall jacket last year.
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It's kind of funny how the same jacket, when
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worn in a different season, gets a different name.
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So I put my fall jacket away, wore my winter coat
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for the entire winter season, and now I have my spring
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jacket on, which looks exactly like my fall jacket.
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It's beautiful out here.
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Jen and I are really excited to get
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started on doing little things on the farm.
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Now, I do say it's beautiful,
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but it's very brown, isn't it?
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Like no leaves on the trees. The.
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I should really pick that gate up, shouldn't I?
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At some point. Yeah.
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I am looking forward to the return of green.
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But this is nice.
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It's 12 degrees right now, Celsius,
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so I'm really, really enjoying it.
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I have a list of little chores
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I have to do later today.
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It's spring break and I have a few things to do.
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I'll show you one of them.
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I don't know if I'll get to this today, but
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this handle on this door has been broken for a
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very long time and this lock doesn't work anymore.
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So I need to go to the hardware store. I.
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Again, I don't know if I'll get this done today, but I
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need to go to the hardware store and get a new.
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At least a new handle for the door and install that.
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So anyways, thanks for watching
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this short English lesson.
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I'll see you in a little.
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In a couple days with another one. Bye.
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