Learn the English Phrases IT WAS MIND BLOWING and IT BLEW MY MIND

In this English lesson

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,

it was mind blowing.

You could also say it is mind blowing

or it's going to be mind blowing.

The tense doesn't actually matter.

But when you talk about something that is mind blowing,

you're talking about something that's amazing

and hard to understand

and it's just something that you're just not sure

how to comprehend it.

That was a pretty difficult explanation, I think.

Let me rephrase that.

If I go and see an amazing movie

with lots of special effects,

I could say the movie was mind blowing.

It was mind blowing.

I was just amazed and in awe

at all the special effects that they used.

If I think about the pandemic ending,

I think that the first concert I go to

is going to be mind blowing

because it will be so much fun

to be with other people listening to music again.

Hey, the other phrase I wanted to teach you is very similar

and it's it blew my mind.

So we can say something was mind blowing,

but we can also say it blew my mind,

and it means exactly the same thing.

If I watch a really cool movie,

I could later say to someone, "Oh, it blew my mind.

"The special effects in the movie were amazing.

"The story was amazing.

"There were so many awesome car chases.

"It blew my mind."

Basically, it means you were just amazed.

It was hard to take it all in.

It was very exciting.

It's just an expression we use when

we think something was really awesome or cool,

but it can also mean something that's hard to understand.

I gotta be careful here how I define it.

'Cause you can also say something like this, you know,

"It blows my mind to think that the whole world

is going through the same experience

"right now with this pandemic."

So that's not a positive use of the phrase,

but it certainly reflects something

that's hard to understand or comprehend

or something that's amazing.

So to review, if I say that it was mind blowing

or if I say it blew my mind,

I'm talking about things

that are just hard to understand or comprehend.

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

Let me find it.

It's in my pocket here.

I got a new sweater by the way.

I got two of them.

I got a darker one and a blue one.

I'm very happy.

They were on sale.

They were only $20 each.

That's a good price.

But here's a comment from Athanasios.

Athanasios says this, "Thanks, Teacher Bob.

"I'm trying to get my head around how this blender works.

"I can't make heads or tails of it."

And my response was this.

"I've always been a big fan of reading instructions.

"Some people throw them out without reading them,

"but I find they're a good way to get your head around

"how to use something new."

So thank you Athanasios for that comment.

I'm not sure if you're reading the instructions

for the blender that you're talking about,

but I will tell you this.

In life, I have always been an instruction reader.

I don't know if that's part of the personality

of someone who becomes a teacher.

When I buy something new,

I read the instructions before I start using it.

It makes me sound a little bit like a geek,

but you know what, I always found that

when you buy something, it's well worth it.

It's worth your while to read the instructions

so you know how to use it

otherwise you might do something wrong

and break that new thing that you bought

or plug it in wrong or hook it up wrong

or do something wrong with it.

So even as a young child,

the first things I started to buy with some money I had,

I think I bought a radio and I read the instructions.

I read the instruction manual from front to back

before I started using it,

and I kind of remember my brother thinking

that was a little bit odd to do that.

Some people do that.

They open something new and they throw the instructions out

and they try to figure it out themselves

and I don't know if that's the best way to do it.

If you don't read instructions,

it's probably at least a good idea to watch a YouTube video

that tells you how to use that new thing

that you're trying to use.

Anyways, Bob the Canadian here.

Hope you're having a good day.

I just saw a dog go tearing past.

I'll see you on Monday with another short English lesson.

Have a good weekend.