Learn the English Phrases FALL FLAT and FALL INTO PLACE

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase to fall flat.

When something falls flat,

it means that it doesn't work out.

It means that it doesn't happen.

Last spring when COVID was starting, many people knew

that their travel plans were going to fall flat,

because they weren't going to be allowed to travel.

Maybe you have plans for later this year,

but you're not sure if your country will open up,

if there will be less restrictions.

So your plans might fall flat later this year

because you won't be allowed to do what you want to do.

It's never very nice when your plans fall flat.

I like it when you make plans

and you're able to actually do what you wanted to do.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase to fall into place.

When things fall into place, it means they do happen.

Maybe you're planning on going on a trip,

and so you booked a hotel, you got plane tickets,

you have time off work,

everything is starting to fall into place.

All of the things that you need to do

so that you can travel later

are actually falling into place so that you can do them.

So when you have a plan for the future

and all the little parts of that plan are working out,

we say that things are starting to fall into place.

So to review, when things fall flat,

when something falls flat,

it means that you had a plan and it just didn't work out,

it just didn't happen.

And when things fall into place,

it means that you had a plan

and everything is working out nicely.

That's usually the best way to have things.

But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

This comment is from Qiu Park, and Qiu Park says,

"In my native language,

we have an idiom with the same meaning.

Three-foot-thick ice didn't freeze in a day."

Thanks a lot, have a good one.

And my response is this,

"That sounds like a Canadian phrase,

but we don't have that one.

I'll have to try and add it."

So that was a take on the phrase,

Rome wasn't built in a day, and that's a great phrase,

three-foot-thick ice didn't freeze in a day.

I would love it if that was a Canadian saying,

that would be really, really cool.

Hey, I'm just gonna walk a little further here

into my wheat field.

There's a couple things I wanted to talk about today.

First of all, thanks, Qiu Park, for that comment.

This wheat field,

I've been talking about it a lot in some of my videos,

it's almost ready to harvest.

We are about 10 days away

from being ready to harvest this wheat field.

I'm just trying to find a little path here in the wheat

where I can walk so that I can get further in,

and I am super excited about it.

This crop has grown really, really well.

The wheat looks really, really good,

so I'm super happy that the combine will come soon

and this will be harvested.

The other thing I wanted to mention today

is I'm wearing my Captain America T-shirt.

It's actually July 4th today,

I'm making this video on July 4th.

So it is a holiday in the United States,

it is the Fourth of July.

So to all of my American friends,

including Brent from "American English With This Guy,"

that's his YouTube channel, by the way,

I hope you're having a great day

over there in the United States.

If you want to know where the United States is for me,

it's like really far that way.

About a one-hour drive that way is Buffalo,

and if we turn this way,

if you drive about three hours that way,

you would get to the state of Michigan.

So I actually live relatively close to the United States.

I'm looking forward to the border being open,

I'm looking forward to being able

to go to the United States again

for small trips to visit some family.

I do have some relatives in Michigan

and the border has been closed for a very long time,

so hopefully that opens soon.

I'm really looking forward to it.

Hopefully everything falls into place

because I don't want my plan

to travel to the US to fall flat, bye.