Learn the English Phrases "to be in the way" and "to get out of the way"

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to be in the way.
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When you are in the way, it means someone is trying
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to go somewhere and you’re blocking their path.
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Sometimes at the grocery store when I go down an aisle, there will be someone
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in the way and I'll have to ask them to move because I can't get my cart through the aisle.
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So when you are in the way, with...
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you think someone is going to be in the way
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it means they're going to be in your path when you're trying to get somewhere.
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I'm trying to think of another good example.
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Sometimes when I'm trying to get into my classroom, there will be students in the way.
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They'll be standing in the doorway and I'll have to ask them to move
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so that I can get into my classroom.
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So to be in the way simply means to block someone's path
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when they're trying to get somewhere.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to get out of the way.
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I'm offering the solution to the problem from the first phrase.
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When you see someone in the way, sometimes it's nice to ask them to get out of the way.
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Sometimes we even say this directly.
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We'll say, Get out of the way!
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You might even yell it if your car was rolling along with
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no one driving it and there was someone walking, you might yell, Get out of the way!
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to them so that they will be safe, meaning that they need to get out of the way of the vehicle.
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They need to not be in the path that it is traveling down.
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So to review, to be in the way means to
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yeah, be in the way.
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I can't define it by using the phrase.
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But if I was standing in my driveway and Jen wanted to leave, I would be in the way.
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And so I would need to get out of the way so that she could leave.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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Let me see which pocket I put it in.
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Here it is right here
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it is from Andrey
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or Andrey. Maybe I'm pronouncing it wrong.
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Such a comfy place on your farm where you're filming the video.
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And my response? It was a nice little corner.
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I might have to find another one.
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It's going to be really windy all this week, so it's a little windy right now, but not too bad.
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But I found this little corner because I wanted to show you that yes, spring
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is definitely starting.
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One of the first signs of spring for me
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is when
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Jen starts to put the little baby plants outside.
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So you can see it's warm enough here
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today, you can see quite a few of them,
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that Jen has some
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of the plants out.
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So she's decided that it's warm enough today that the plants can be outside for a little bit.
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So what was I saying?
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Yes, I picked that comfy corner.
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I had a nice comfy corner over there the other day.
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It's not as windy right now, though.
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This morning it was super windy, so I was worried that I wouldn't be able
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to find a good place to do this.
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Anyways, what was I going to talk about?
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Spring is starting.
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Here's another little look down here.
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You can see that the daffodils are just starting to pop out of the ground.
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Another sure sign that spring is coming.
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And I was going to show you all the geese in the river, but they all flew away.
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But there's definitely a lot of Canadian geese and there is either
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white geese or swans.
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I'm not sure which it is because I haven't been able to get close.
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I know they were flying overhead the other day, but I can just sense
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right now that spring is just around the corner.
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Actually, it did start yesterday.
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Yesterday was the first day of spring.
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I guess I should have mentioned that one of the reasons I'm talking about spring
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is because yesterday literally was the first
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I think today's the first full day of spring.
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But spring did start yesterday, yesterday afternoon for us.
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Anyways, thanks for watching this little English lesson.
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It should become greener and greener out here as I make these lessons,
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so hopefully I can share that with you. Have a good day. Bye.
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