Learn the English Phrases SPOILED BRAT and ROTTEN APPLE - An English Lesson with Subtitles

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn

the English term, spoiled brat.

A spoiled brat is a child

who gets everything they want all the time.

So you probably know families like this,

where the parents have lots of money

and whenever the child wants something, they get it.

Maybe the child has a birthday coming up

and they want a really, really expensive gift,

a gift that might cost hundreds of dollars.

And if their parents buy them that gift,

and if their parents regularly buy expensive things

for their child, you might call that child a spoiled brat.

It usually also refers a little bit to their behavior.

When a child is a spoiled brat,

they're used to always getting what they want

and they get really upset when they don't get

what they want in life.

So a spoiled brat is a child who gets everything they want,

all the time from their parents.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase, rotten apple.

Technically a term, not a phrase,

but the term rotten apple refers to someone

who's not a good person.

So you might have friends of your family,

maybe they have five children

and one of those kids is not a good person.

They are regularly getting in trouble.

They get in trouble at school,

they get in trouble maybe with the law,

maybe they commit crimes,

but they also make other people do bad things with them.

We would say that that person is a rotten apple,

because a rotten apple tends to make other apples rotten.

So if you know a person who is a rotten apple,

they are a bad person, they do bad things,

but they also convince other people

to do bad things with them.

So anyways, a spoiled brat is a rich, sorry,

is a child of rich people who gets everything they want

all the time,

and a rotten apple is a person who does bad things

and convinces other people to do bad things with them.

Let's look at a comment from previous video.

This comment is from Julia Olis and Julia says,

"Hi, dear teacher, thank you for these phrases.

In Russian, we have something like,

seven nannies can't look after a baby."

So this is from the lesson on too many cooks

spoil the broth, that I did the other day,

and my response was, "That makes sense.

Too many people taking care of a child

might make the child grow up to be a spoiled brat."

So you see what I did there?

I used today's phrase in my reply to that comment.

Actually today's phrase came from my reply

to Julia's comment.

So thank you Julia for that comment.

Yes, sometimes if you think about children,

if they have too many people taking care of them

and they get too many things, they can become spoiled.

They can become spoiled brats.

Not a good thing.

Let me tell you something, though.

When I was a kid, I was not a spoiled brat.

You might see this farm and think that this is really cool

and it's really big and it's awesome,

and Bob grew up on this beautiful farm,

but when I was a kid, we lived on this farm,

but we didn't have a lot of money.

We had a lot of land.

My parents owed the bank a lot of money

and it was a good life, but it was filled with hard work.

I did not get anything given to me by my parents

very quickly or very easily.

I was not a spoiled brat in that sense.

If I wanted something for my birthday,

that was really expensive, sometimes my parents would pay

for part of it and they would make me work to earn money

to pay for the other part of it.

So let's say I wanted a toy that cost $100,

when I was a kid, my parents might pay

for 20 or $30 of that toy,

but I had to find money to pay for the rest of it,

so I definitely was not raised in a rich family

and I was not a spoiled brat.

Anyways, thanks for watching

and listening to this English lesson.

Hope you're having a good day.

I'll see you tomorrow with another one.