Learn the English Phrases "to sugarcoat" and "a coat of paint"

Hi.

I'll teach the phrase in a moment.

I just got to get my

gas pumping here.

And then I will get started

on the phrase to sugarcoat.

Let me see here.

Almost ready.

There we go.

Well, hi.

In this English lesson, I wanted

to help you learn

the English phrase to sugarcoat.

When you sugarcoat something,

it means you're giving someone

serious news, but you're

making it sound not serious.

A great example would be if you

go to the hospital, maybe you

were in an accident and they do

some X rays and the doctor

comes out and says, well, I'm

just gonna say it won't be very

long before you're feeling a

lot better.

You might say to the doctor,

please don't sugarcoat it.

Just tell me exactly what's wrong.

And then the doctor might say,

well, you broke your leg

and your arm and you're going

to have a long recovery.

Something super serious like that.

So to sugarcoat means to make

something serious sound not serious.

The other phrase I wanted to teach

you today is a coat of paint.

If you look here, this looks like it

has a fresh coat of paint on it.

My van could use

a fresh coat of paint.

When we talk about a coat

of paint, it's as if when you put

the paint on, it forms a coat.

Sorry, there's a big, huge

truck going by if you're wondering

what the loud noise is.

But anyways, a coat of paint is

just the paint

that you put on in one layer.

Sometimes you put on two coats

of paint, sometimes three.

So to review, to sugarcoat

something means to make it sound

better than it is.

And a coat of paint simply

refers to a layer of paint

that is on something like

a van or this post here.

But hey, let's look at a comment

from a previous video.

Let me check my gas for a sec.

$70 already.

Wow, it's expensive.

This comment is from Meng.

Daffodils in England were

in full bloom a month or two ago,

and now they are past their prime.

Oh, I'm done pumping.

I should hurry up.

And then I responded by saying,

I guess you're ahead of us then.

Also, great use of the face

of the phrase past their prime.

Yeah, it's a good phrase.

When something's past its

prime, it means it isn't.

Isn't doing well anymore.

It's getting old and not in its.

Well, in its prime.

I was gonna say in its heyday,

which is another way of saying it.

So how much is gas here?

Let me have gas is $1.35.9 cents.

Gas in Canada has gotten

a little bit cheaper.

But honestly, I have a bit

of a dilemma because if I go

to the city, gas is right now

10 cents a liter cheaper

in the city for some reason.

I don't know why, but it's

10 cents a liter cheaper.

So the problem I have is do I drive

to the city and use extra gas to

fill up my van so that it's cheaper?

Or do.

Or do I just

buy the more expensive gas?

So hey, some of you might be

wondering, I think in a previous

video, I don't know on which

channel, I talked about how this

van had to go to the garage for

some work.

It smelled like gas.

It ended up being

something fairly simple.

It was less than $200

to get it fixed.

So I'm happy that my little

blue van is still on the road

and still doing well.

Hopefully it lasts a long

time because we need it to.

So yeah, I tanked it up

with gas and it's good

for a little while yet.

By the way, only I drive this van.

My kids have decided they like

the newer car better and the red

van is, I think, more reliable.

So it's just me now.

Me and my blue van, which

some people think is gray,

but I think it's blue. Maybe

let me know in the comments below

what color you think this van is.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

I'll see you in a couple days

with another short English lesson.

Bye.