Learn the English Phrases "to shake things up" and "to shake on it"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase "to shake things up".

When you shake things up, it

means that you change things.

Sorry, Walter just came running here.

There he is.

That scared me a little bit.

I don't know if I jumped or not, but

anyways, when you shake things up, it means you

change things, hopefully so things get better.

Here's a good example.

I watch the Toronto Raptors and last year they decided

that they were going to get a new head coach.

They wanted to shake things up a bit.

They also got rid of one or two

players to shake things up a bit.

So they changed things so that hopefully this

year the team has a winning season.

You might have this happen at work.

Sometimes at work you might come in and

they'll say, yep, Jim and Joe are gone.

The boss fired them because the boss

wants to shake things up a bit.

I think I use a bit a lot when I use that phrase.

They want to shake things up a bit.

So it means to make a change.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is the phrase "to shake on it".

When you shake on something, it

means you agree on something.

It means you actually shake hands with someone.

I have someone coming to look at a water

pump tonight and hopefully they want to buy it.

And hopefully we can shake on it

when we agree on a price.

So to review when you shake things

up, it means you make changes to

something, hopefully so that things go better.

And when you.... To shake on it means that you

shake hands with someone after you agree to do something.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

I hope this guy doesn't show up

while I'm making this English lesson.

This is from Andres. Mr.

Bob, does YouTube provide you with metrics about how

many users watch 10 seconds of your videos and

how many users watch the entire video?

And my response yes, although I don't usually pay it

much attention, I make the video to satisfy a need.

It doesn't matter to me how long people watch it for,

so I can't see how long specific people watch it for.

I do know that people watch about 60% to 70% of my

videos before they give up and decide to do something else.

But what that actually means is that most

people watch the whole video and some people

only watch the first 40% or 50%.

I don't know the details, but anyways, yes, I do

see metrics, but I do not pay a lot of

attention to them because I just like making the video.

Hey, this is the pump.

Do you think someone will buy it.

We bought a different pump this year.

We have two irrigation pumps.

We bought an irrigation pump that has a pressure regulator

on it so it turns on and off automatically.

That pump just pumps water.

It doesn't turn on and off.

It just pumps water.

As long as it's on, it's

pumping water until you unplug it.

But we like to use pumps where when it gets up

to 50 psi pounds per square inch, the pump turns off.

So I'm actually waiting right now.

The guy said he would be here around 5:30.

It's 5:25 right now.

And I thought, well, I'll kill two birds with 1 stone.

I'll go outside and make a video while

I'm waiting for him to show up.

And then when he arrives, we'll have a look at

the pump, and hopefully he offers me a price that

we agree on and we can shake on it.

And then hopefully, he gives me some

money and he takes the pump away.

I always like to sell things that I'm not

using anymore because there's really no point in keeping

things that you don't need otherwise, they just sit

in your shed or sit in your garage.

and kind of waste away.

So, anyways, thanks for watching

this short English lesson.

I'll see you in a few days with another one. Bye.