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

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn
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the English term, spoiled brat.
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A spoiled brat is a child
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who gets everything they want all the time.
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So you probably know families like this,
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where the parents have lots of money
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and whenever the child wants something, they get it.
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Maybe the child has a birthday coming up
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and they want a really, really expensive gift,
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a gift that might cost hundreds of dollars.
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And if their parents buy them that gift,
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and if their parents regularly buy expensive things
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for their child, you might call that child a spoiled brat.
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It usually also refers a little bit to their behavior.
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When a child is a spoiled brat,
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they're used to always getting what they want
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and they get really upset when they don't get
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what they want in life.
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So a spoiled brat is a child who gets everything they want,
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all the time from their parents.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase, rotten apple.
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Technically a term, not a phrase,
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but the term rotten apple refers to someone
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who's not a good person.
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So you might have friends of your family,
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maybe they have five children
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and one of those kids is not a good person.
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They are regularly getting in trouble.
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They get in trouble at school,
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they get in trouble maybe with the law,
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maybe they commit crimes,
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but they also make other people do bad things with them.
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We would say that that person is a rotten apple,
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because a rotten apple tends to make other apples rotten.
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So if you know a person who is a rotten apple,
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they are a bad person, they do bad things,
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but they also convince other people
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to do bad things with them.
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So anyways, a spoiled brat is a rich, sorry,
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is a child of rich people who gets everything they want
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all the time,
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and a rotten apple is a person who does bad things
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and convinces other people to do bad things with them.
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Let's look at a comment from previous video.
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This comment is from Julia Olis and Julia says,
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"Hi, dear teacher, thank you for these phrases.
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In Russian, we have something like,
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seven nannies can't look after a baby."
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So this is from the lesson on too many cooks
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spoil the broth, that I did the other day,
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and my response was, "That makes sense.
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Too many people taking care of a child
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might make the child grow up to be a spoiled brat."
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So you see what I did there?
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I used today's phrase in my reply to that comment.
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Actually today's phrase came from my reply
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to Julia's comment.
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So thank you Julia for that comment.
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Yes, sometimes if you think about children,
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if they have too many people taking care of them
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and they get too many things, they can become spoiled.
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They can become spoiled brats.
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Not a good thing.
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Let me tell you something, though.
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When I was a kid, I was not a spoiled brat.
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You might see this farm and think that this is really cool
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and it's really big and it's awesome,
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and Bob grew up on this beautiful farm,
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but when I was a kid, we lived on this farm,
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but we didn't have a lot of money.
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We had a lot of land.
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My parents owed the bank a lot of money
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and it was a good life, but it was filled with hard work.
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I did not get anything given to me by my parents
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very quickly or very easily.
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I was not a spoiled brat in that sense.
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If I wanted something for my birthday,
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that was really expensive, sometimes my parents would pay
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for part of it and they would make me work to earn money
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to pay for the other part of it.
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So let's say I wanted a toy that cost $100,
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when I was a kid, my parents might pay
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for 20 or $30 of that toy,
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but I had to find money to pay for the rest of it,
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so I definitely was not raised in a rich family
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and I was not a spoiled brat.
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Anyways, thanks for watching
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and listening to this English lesson.
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Hope you're having a good day.
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I'll see you tomorrow with another one.
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