Learn the English Phrases TO LOSE YOUR SHIRT and TO LOSE TOUCH

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn
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the English phrase to lose your shirt.
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Now, this can mean that you've actually lost your shirt.
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Maybe you went to the beach and you took your shirt off
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and then you lost it and you don't know where it is anymore.
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But we also use the phrase to lose your shirt
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to talk about losing money.
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If someone invests in a company
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and the company's not very good at doing business,
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there's a chance that that person might lose their shirt.
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You might lose your shirt if you invest
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in a company that's not trustworthy.
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Another example would be this, I could say,
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"Oh, my brother's going to the casino next week.
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"He's not a very good gambler,
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"he's going to lose his shirt."
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So when you lose your shirt, it simply means
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that you've lost a bunch of money.
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It can mean that you've lost your actual shirt,
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but we generally use the phrase to talk about a situation
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where someone loses some money.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase to lose touch.
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Now, this happens when you know someone
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and then maybe you move to different cities
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and slowly you just stop communicating with each other,
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you lose touch with them.
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It happens a lot with university friends.
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When you go to university,
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and then, after you graduate,
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you tend to move to different cities in the world,
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and then eventually you lose touch with them.
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Maybe you send the odd email.
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Maybe you're still friends with them on Facebook,
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but because you live far away,
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you start to lose touch with them.
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This can also happen with families,
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and then that's kind of sad.
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You can lose touch with your brothers and sisters
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or even lose touch with your parents,
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which means you just don't spend
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a lot of time talking anymore.
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You're not sure what they're up to in their life.
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That would be sad.
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It's okay, I think, to lose touch with friends
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from university or college,
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I think that's only natural,
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especially if you live in different countries,
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it's hard to keep in touch then.
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But hey, to review, when you lose your shirt,
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it means that you've lost a lot of money, or all your money,
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doing something like a bad investment or gambling.
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And when you lose touch with someone,
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it means that you slowly just communicate less and less,
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almost to the point
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where you don't communicate at all anymore.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Liu and the comment is this.
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"Having dinner with family outdoors is awesome.
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"May I ask, is that picnic table
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"big enough for your whole family?
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"Also, do you use camping lanterns at night
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"when you have dinner in the yard?"
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So yes, it is big enough for all of us,
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but we have to squeeze in.
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So we fit three on a side and then sometimes
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someone will sit in a lawn chair.
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We don't use a camping lantern
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because it's actually light out here
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until almost 9:30 p.m. right now.
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One of the benefits of living
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in a northern country in the summer.
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So yes, it is big enough.
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Sometimes four people sit on one side, three on the other.
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Sometimes someone just stands and eats their pizza
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or grabs a lawn chair.
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But the table is definitely big enough for all of us.
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We certainly fit and we enjoy sitting there
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and we enjoy eating.
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And then the other part of the comment,
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it is really cool to live
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in a northern country in the summer.
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Right now, the sun will go down tonight at 9:00 p.m.,
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I think at 8:54 p.m., the sun will go down.
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So it's light out here very late in the day.
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We have very long days during the month of June and July.
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They're starting to get shorter every day right now
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because the summer will come to a close in a few weeks.
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But certainly, it's very nice to live in a country
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where you have long days in the summer.
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Now the opposite isn't as fun.
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I do not enjoy short days in the winter.
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Anyways, I just wanted to show you it's rained so much.
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I'm not sure if you can see this, but the river has flooded.
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So we certainly would hope it stops raining soon.
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Anyways, see you in a couple of days
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with another short English lesson, bye.
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