Learn the English Phrase TO THROW SOMEONE UNDER THE BUS and THE WHEELS CAME OFF THE BUS

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In this English lesson,
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I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,
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to throw someone under the bus.
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Now, this sounds horrible,
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but it's not something you actually do.
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You would not actually throw a person under a bus,
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but if you and someone else do something,
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and the other person blames you for it,
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they would be throwing you under the bus.
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Sometimes this happens in workplaces.
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Sometimes people work on something,
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and something goes wrong.
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And the boss says, who did this?
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Whose fault was it?
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And maybe it's two people that did it,
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and the one person says he did it.
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They throw that person under the bus.
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They pretend that they didn't do anything wrong,
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and they basically say that the other person did it.
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It's not nice to throw someone under the bus,
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but it definitely does happen at some workplaces.
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And it sometimes happens with students too.
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They'll blame another student for something,
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they'll throw them under the bus.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the wheels fell off the bus.
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We use this to describe any situation
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where things start to go wrong.
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We sometimes use this to talk about a sports team
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when they're losing.
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You could say they were playing really great
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in the first half,
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and then the wheels fell off the bus.
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And in the second half
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the other team got way more points than they did.
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So anytime you describe a situation
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where something's going badly,
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you could say the wheels fell off the bus,
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or the wheels are falling off the bus as it happens.
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So to review, to throw someone on the bus means to,
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sorry to throw someone under the bus
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means to blame them for something that went wrong,
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maybe at work,
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or maybe if you're a student doing a group project.
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And when you say the wheels fell off the bus,
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it means that something went wrong,
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and now things aren't going well.
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Sometimes we just say the wheels fell off too.
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You could say, oh, in the second half, the wheels fell off.
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Let me get the comment out of my pocket here.
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Let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from IOT.
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Hello, dear teacher, wear a toque, please.
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It seems it is cold there,
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and my response, I will make sure to wear one
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in the next video.
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I will make sure to wear one in the next video.
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Let me make sure I read that right.
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Yes, I'm wearing one in this video,
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because it is severe winter out here right now.
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You can see that my van is covered in snow.
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Look how deep this is if I put my hand in here.
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I could even write on here if I wanted to.
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I could write hello.
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Okay, that's not the greatest,
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but you can see what I'm saying.
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If we walk along here,
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let me just do the little spinny thing.
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If we walk along here, you can see Oscar is outside with me.
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He wants to say hello.
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Hi, Oscar.
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You can see that this van
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is also very, very much covered in snow.
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We are having a beautiful winter storm.
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In fact, I didn't have to
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go to work today.
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Sorry, my face is going to look funny,
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because the snow is blowing into my face.
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I didn't have to go to work today,
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so that was kind of fun.
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When I woke up this morning, it said it was a snow day.
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So I'm home,
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and it might even be a snow day tomorrow as well.
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The snow is really coming down right now.
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I was out earlier today
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making my video for next week for my other channel.
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And man, it was cold.
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I didn't have my toque on then.
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So, IOT, you were correct.
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I should be wearing a toque
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when we have this kind of weather.
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So I'm going to have to,
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I know I show you guys a lot of snow,
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but it is, oh, I'm not sure what happened there.
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Somehow, let me just try this.
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Somehow, my camera thinks it's too cold, I think,
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and it decided to go upside down.
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Anyways, lots of snow on the ground.
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Oscar is out here somewhere.
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I'll have to find him back later.
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Thanks for watching.
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I'll see you next Wednesday
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with another short English lesson, bye.
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