Learn the English Phrases "to make do" and "to make a living"

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help
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you learn the English phrase to make do.
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Sorry, I forgot to put the to here.
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When you make do, it means you do
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the best you can with what you have.
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This shirt doesn't have a pocket and I
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like to put my microphone on the pocket.
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So I just had to make do and I stuck
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the microphone up here on the brim of my hat.
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Sometimes in the morning, if you are a
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coffee drinker, maybe you like cream in your
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coffee and all you have is milk.
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So you might have to make do and put a
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little bit of sugar and a little bit of milk
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in your coffee instead of putting in some yummy cream.
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So when you make do, it means you
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do the best with what you have.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you
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today is the phrase to make a living.
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I forgot the to here as well.
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I'm getting a little sloppy, aren't I?
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When you make a good living or when
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you make a living, it means you earn
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enough money to live to pay your bills.
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When I go to work every day, I do
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that because I need to make a living.
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I need to earn money so that I can
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pay my mortgage and pay my for gas and
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groceries and all of those other things.
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So to review, when you need to make do, you
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do the best you can with what you have.
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Maybe you can't afford to take an English class.
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So you make do by watching a lot of YouTube
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videos which are free, by the way, which is awesome.
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I love it that YouTube videos are free.
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And when you make a living, it means you have
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a job, you get a paycheck, you get paid for
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doing that job, and you can use that money to
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pay for all the things around you.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This is from Will.
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So in the last video, Will is referring to this.
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At 1 minute, 13 seconds, a cute squirrel
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is crossing the street against the backdrop and
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my response, look at him go.
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So if you go to the last video at that
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point in the video, you will see that.
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Thanks Will for that comment.
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So uh, yes, squirrel.
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Sometimes squirrels are in the video because
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they want to help you pronounce squirrel.
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Um, I wanted to show you the dogs right now.
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Jen has left for market.
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I will be leaving for market shortly.
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I have to wait for, uh, one of my
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kids to get home with the other van.
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But this is what the dogs do when
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Jen goes to market, they are sad.
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They simply sit by the house and
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they wait for her to come home.
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They will go with me to do certain chores.
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If I have to go feed the chickens or
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something before I leave or do something out in
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the field, they will come with me.
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But as I've mentioned before, they
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are very much Jen's dogs.
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In fact, someone asked, I think Lolly
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Lolly asked in a live stream a
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couple weeks ago, where are the dogs?
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And I responded by saying, well, if you watch
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Jen's YouTube channel, I'll put a link up here.
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Most of you know about it.
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You'll see the dogs a lot.
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You'll see that they do indeed
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stick with her all the time.
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I'm like, oh, here's a good use of make do.
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When Jen's not here, they, they make
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do by hanging out with me.
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I'm not the alpha dog.
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I'm like, second in command, I
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guess, of in the dog kingdom.
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So anyways, it's a Thursday.
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It is Thursday afternoon.
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I'm done work for the day and I'm home.
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I just helped Jen load the van.
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Now I have to wait for my
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kids to finish their school day.
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And then when they come home, I will
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take some more flowers in the second van
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and go to market and join Jen there.
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It's not ideal, but we have to make do.
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We don't want to buy a third
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vehicle because we don't really need three.
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You know, two works at this time of
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the year, things are a little crazy.
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So it's not ideal.
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So we just make do.
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So Jen will have to sell flowers by herself
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for a bit, and then when I arrive, I
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can help her and get that done.
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Yeah, that's still there.
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I haven't gotten to that job yet.
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I had, I had a number
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of other things that took precedence.
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So, anyways, thanks for watching.
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I hope you enjoyed this short English lesson.
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I'll see you in a couple days with another one. Bye.
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