Learn the English Phrases TO HORSE AROUND and HOLD YOUR HORSES

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,

to horse around.

This is a phrase we use usually when we're talking

about children who are just acting all crazy.

In fact, I remember as a kid,

my parents often saying to me, stop horsing around.

So when you horse around,

it means as a kid, you jump around, you make lots of noise.

Maybe you scream a little bit.

And usually parents don't want their kids to horse around

when they're somewhere out in public.

So sometimes at the grocery store,

my brother and I would be horsing around.

We'd be grabbing boxes off the shelf

or jumping around and making lots of noise.

And my mom would be upset because she didn't like it

when we horsed around at the grocery store.

So, to horse around simply means

to act like how kids probably should act just in a way

that parents don't appreciate when they're in public.

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

hold your horses.

An oldie, but a goodie. We would say in English.

You probably know this phrase

when you tell someone in English to hold their horses.

If you say, whoa, hold your horses.

What you're basically saying is please wait.

It's a very simple way.

Wait is actually a simpler way to tell people to wait,

but we do actually say this quite a bit.

It surprised me because one week at school, I kept track

and I actually heard the phrase I think seven times

in one week from teachers, from students as well.

They would say to someone else, "Hey, hold your horses.

No running in the hallway",

or "Hey don't go past me in line, hold your horses.

Get in line and just wait for your turn."

So hold your horses means to wait.

So to review, to horse around means to jump around.

Usually children do this, scream, yell, giggle, laugh.

Everything that kids do, horsing around

is probably one of the most common things that kids do.

And if you say to someone hold your horses,

it means that you want them to wait.

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

Sorry, there's always bugs out here right now.

In fact, the video I made the other day,

there's actually a bug crawling around on my forehead.

I don't know if you notice that on my other channel,

the video I made about my childhood.

In the first few seconds,

there's actually a black fly climbing around on my head.

Anyways, this is from Qiu Park.

How cute the baby Bob is.

When I was a kid I spent a lot of time horsing around.

My parents made me buy groceries and I hated it a lot.

My response was I spent

a lot of time horsing around as well.

Sometimes it drove my parents up the wall.

So this is the first time I've done this.

I actually took Qiu Park's comment from my other video

about my childhood, because I loved it

that they use the phrase horsing around correctly.

And I thought I would respond

and also use the phrase to drive someone up the wall.

So yes, definitely kids, sometimes horse around

and they do sometimes drive their parents up the wall.

By the way, if you didn't watch that video,

maybe I'll put a link up here to it.

I'm sure most of you did.

I showed some pictures of my childhood.

It was a lot of fun to me.

But I was gonna mention this.

If you look way over there, it's the goat pasture.

It's not a horse pasture.

We have never had horses on this farm.

I do know though that my grandfather,

who had a farm down the road had horses

when he first moved here from Holland and he loved horses.

He was a horse person, for sure.

I think he had horses on his farm in Holland.

And when they immigrated to Canada,

one of the first things he did was I think he bought,

well, he worked for a bit,

but when he eventually bought a farm, he also got a horse.

So there's some pictures from a long time ago

that I should find of my grandfather with his horse.

The other thing I wanted to show you today,

of course, is the peonies.

The peonies are almost blooming.

They will bloom very soon.

They're getting there,

they'll bloom in a few days hopefully.

Anyway, see you in a couple of days

with another short English lesson.