Learn the English Phrases THAT'S GETTING OLD and OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER

In this English lesson I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase, "That's getting old!"

Now I should mention,

I think I did this phrase a couple of years ago,

but I did just hear this the other day again.

It's something we say when someone tells the same joke

over and over again, and it's not funny anymore.

Or they're saying something, that's getting old,

the geese flying by making noise.

That's getting old.

It's when you refer to something that was maybe nice,

or amusing or funny, or didn't bother you at one time,

but because it happens over and over again,

you're getting tired of it.

You would then say that's getting old.

I once worked with a guy that always called me Bub

instead of Bob.

It was kind of a funny thing that he did,

but eventually I just said, hey, you know what?

That's getting old.

My name's Bob, not Bub, just use my real name.

Anyways, oh, I'm losing track of where I am.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase,

"Old enough to know better".

So we use this phrase when someone,

usually a younger person who is a teenager,

or maybe in their twenties,

when they do something and they should have known

not to do it.

Maybe they drive their car too fast and they go in the ditch

or something like that.

We would say, man, they were old enough to know better.

They did something that they were old enough

they should have been wise enough as well

not to do that thing.

Sometimes I see teenagers do things like that.

They do things where you're like, you know what?

You're old enough to know better.

You're old enough to know what you're doing is wrong

or that you shouldn't be doing it.

Anyways to review, when you say that's getting old,

you're referring to something that is no longer funny.

Like those geese going by, that's getting old for me.

I mean, I like the geese.

It's cool to hear them honk sometimes,

but they seem to do it every time I start making a video

and that's getting old.

And when you say that someone is old enough to know better,

it means that they have gotten to the age where,

when they do certain things,

they should know whether it's good or bad to do that.

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

This comment is from Dúlio.

Blackbirds singing in the dead of night.

It's what they sing in the song Blackbird by the Beatles.

And my response was great reference to a great song.

So Dúlio was referring to a song called Blackbird

where they have that line in the dead of night,

which is a lot like the phrase I taught you

in the previous video, right?

In the dead of night or in the dead of winter.

So thanks Dúlio for that.

I'm not gonna walk around too much today

because it's extremely windy out here.

And if I was to say something about something

that's getting old,

I would also say that trying to make videos when it's windy

is getting old.

I do love going outside,

but sometimes it's just a little too windy.

Hey, the other day someone said to me,

what animal would you be if you could be an animal?

And my response was almost immediate.

I said, I would love to be a bear.

Especially at this time of year,

as winter is getting closer, I think to myself,

wouldn't it be cool to be a bear and just eat

till you're really, really big and then just sleep

for the entire winter.

I don't know if I would ever be able to do that.

Obviously I'm not a bear, but I think to myself,

I might get bored if I was a bear,

but certainly hibernating or sleeping

through the entire winter has a certain appeal to me.

I hope I'm making some sense today.

I'm not sure if you realize this,

but oh, there they go again.

I can't really show you.

Let's see if I can do this.

Probably not.

It's probably quite hard to see,

but there are geese up there flying in a V.

Anyways, yes.

Maybe someday I can hibernate all winter

when I no longer have a job and when I'm retired,

but that day's a long ways off.

Anyways, Bob the Canadian here again

with a short English lesson and I'll see you

in a couple of days with another one.

Bye.