Learn the English Phrases "to double down" and "to double dip"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English phrase to double down.

When you double down on something, it

means you work harder at it.

This week at school, even though the semester is almost over,

I need to double down on some of my work.

I'm a little behind in my grading.

I have some student work that I need to

look at, so I need to double down.

That means instead of coming home at the end of

the work day, I might stay for an extra hour.

Instead of getting up late in the morning, which I

never do, I might get up extra early because I

need to double down on getting that work done.

This is sometimes used to talk about sports as well.

A player who is having a bad year

might need to double down at practice.

They might need to work harder and get stronger so that

they can perform better when they're out on the field.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you

today is the phrase to double dip.

Now, when you double dip, you know, when you eat chips

and there's a bowl of dip or hummus and you dip,

you take a brand new chip from the bag and you

dip and you bite half of it and then it's not

considered polite to then dip again with the piece that you

already had part of in your mouth.

I hope that makes some sense.

If you take a piece of bread and it's

straight from the bowl and you dip it into

some hummus and you bite it, you're not supposed

to dip again because the bread's touched your mouth.

And so we call that to double dip.

So sometimes my kids will say to one

of my other kids, hey, no double dipping.

That's gross.

Anyways, to review, to double

down means to work harder.

Sometimes when the new year starts, people who like

to exercise, they will double down on their exercise

and start going to the gym a lot more.

And to double dip means when you're sharing a bowl

of food with someone and you're dipping chips or pitas

or bread into the bowl, you should always dip once

and then eat the whole piece of bread.

Don't dip a second time.

It's considered a little rude,

at least in North America.

I'm curious to hear what it's like in your country. But

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

This comment is from Ünsal.

Hi teacher Bob.

I don't know if it's just me, but in the

modern age, time passes so quickly and is so inadequate.

If it is decided to do something, it

should be started without wasting any time.

There is truly no time like the present.

And my response well said.

I agree 100%.

2024 is the year to do the

thing you've always been dreaming of.

And thanks Ünsal for that comment.

I was listening to a podcast the other day and it

was a guy who was, he was 56 years old, or

57, and he talked a little bit about how there's no

time like the present because eventually we all get old.

And he talked about things like he wanted

to go and climb a certain mountain.

And he said if he thinks about his mom, his mom

is in her 80s, she can't climb a mountain anymore.

He's in his fifties and he's

still able to climb a mountain.

So he said at some point he's going to be the same

age as his mom, so there's no time like the present.

Eventually he won't be able to climb the mountain that he

wants to climb, so he needs to do it now.

I think I felt the same way a

little bit when I started my YouTube channel.

I think I felt like I really needed to

kick out a lot of videos really quickly in

those early years because I was so old.

I mean, I was 47 or 48 at the time.

I wasn't that old and I don't feel old at

all now, but certainly at the time I felt like

I needed to make as many videos as possible.

But at that time some people were commenting

that I was making too many videos, that

it was actually hard to keep up.

So now I think I've found a very nice

balance in the amount of content that I make.

But I certainly at the time was feeling like, oh,

I need to make a lot of English lessons really

quickly so that people can watch all of them and

so that I can be successful, I guess. I don't know.

Anyways, thanks for watching

these little short lessons.

I'll have another one ready for you later this week.

Have a good couple of days. Bye.