Learn the English Phrases "sight unseen" and "out of sight, out of mind"

In this English lesson, I wanted

to help you learn

the English phrase sight unseen.

Now we use this when we're talking

about buying something

that we haven't looked at.

Here's an example.

If I was to go online

on Facebook Marketplace, it's

a popular place to go when you're

trying to buy something used.

And if I saw a car and I called

the person and I said, I'm going

to send you $10,000 over

the Internet for that car, I would

be buying it sight unseen.

What that means is I didn't

go and look at the car

before I bought it.

If I saw a house online and the price

was really good, and if I was

a multimillionaire, which I'm not,

I might call the realtor and say,

I want to buy that house.

And I would then buy it sight unseen.

Meaning that I didn't even bother

to go and look at the house

to see what it looked like.

I bought it sight unseen.

The other phrase I wanted

to teach you today is the phrase out

of sight out of mind.

When there are no cookies

in the house, I don't eat cookies

because when something is out

of sight, it's not in your mind,

it's out of sight, out of mind.

If I see cookies,

then I want to eat cookies.

So it's best for me.

Sorry, I'm trying to keep

my back to the wind.

Let me shift a little bit here.

It's best for me if things are out

of sight, out of mind.

If I don't see cookies, if I

don't see cake, if I don't see

donuts, then I don't crave

them and I don't eat them.

So to review, when you buy something

sight unseen, it means you buy

it without going to look at it.

It's always best to look

at something before you buy it.

But sometimes you might

buy it sight unseen.

And then when something is out

of sight, out of mind,

it means you can't see it.

So then you don't think about it.

But hey, let's look at a comment

from a previous video.

This comment is from Duncan Kim.

Thanks for watching.

Thanks for teaching and my response.

You're welcome.

So what Duncan's saying there is

I often at the end of my videos

will say thanks for watching.

But Duncan feels that

I deserve thanks.

And this goes back to

when I taught the phrase.

By the way, thanks Duncan for

the comment when I taught the phrase

when something's a win win.

I've mentioned this before.

I like making these videos.

It's really nice to be outside

making a video today.

And you like watching them.

It's a win, win.

We both benefit.

And just so you know, I do get

a little bit of money from YouTube.

There are ads and you watch the ads

and I get a little bit of money.

But it's, it's a win, win situation.

So I do thank people for watching

and people do thank me

for making the videos.

So it's a, it's a win, win.

We both say thank you

and we both say you're welcome.

Anyways, what can I say?

It is really nice to be out

here making a video again.

It is really nice

to be feeling a lot better.

I'm not going to go into any details,

but yeah, I took a little bit

of a break if you didn't notice.

And it's good to be back.

I was excited because today

I heard a student use

the phrase sight unseen and I

was like, there's the phrase.

It's time to get things going again

on this second channel.

So again, you shouldn't buy

things sight unseen, but maybe

you're the kind

of person that likes doing that.

So anyways, what else

was I going to mention?

I did a video on my other channel.

I'm not sure if you saw it.

It was about how English conversation

is important and that channel or

that video was sponsored by Preply.

And I did mention to them that I

would mention the offer they have

on a couple other videos as well.

So if you look in the description

below, there's a link to Preply,

a place where you can find

an English speaking partner.

And if you click that link and use that

Link, you'll get 50% off your first

lesson with an English tutor.

Pretty cool.

So look at that.

Look for that.

It's in the link below,

in the description below.

I'm not very good at this, am I?

Anyways, thanks for watching.

I'm just out here catching some

rays in on a cold April day.

Still got my winter coat

on for some reason.

But it looks like in a few

weeks things should warm up.

Thanks for watching.

I'll see you in a couple days

with another short English lesson.

Bye.