Learn the English Terms UNDERHANDED and HANDS DOWN

In this English lesson I wanted to help you

learn the English term that's underhanded.

This is a phrase we would use

to describe something that's kind of sneaky,

maybe even a little bit illegal.

When something is underhanded,

it means someone's doing something

they're not supposed to do, in order to achieve something.

Here's a great example.

If a politician is in an election,

if they are running for office,

and if they were to pay people to vote for them,

you would probably say that's underhanded.

Basically, when you have an election,

people are supposed to freely go out

and vote for who they think is the best person for the job.

And if someone pays everyone they know $5 to vote for them,

we would say that's underhanded,

meaning that it's deceitful, they're deceiving people,

and it's also illegal.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase hands down.

When you say something is, well, here's the example.

If I was to say, "These are the best cookies

I've ever eaten, hands down," it means like decisively.

It means like for sure.

If you are a fan of a sports team,

and they beat the other team hands down,

the score, if it was football or something,

was probably like 5 to 1, or 10 to 8.

If it was basketball, it might be like 105 to 80.

You would then say that that team won hands down.

So it means like decisively, that there's a clear winner.

It means that they for sure accomplished

what they were trying to do.

Anyways, let's review.

When you describe something by saying "that's underhanded,"

you're basically saying that's illegal or that's wrong,

or someone isn't playing by the rules.

I should do that phrase, shouldn't I? To play by the rules.

I'll do that in a future video.

And if you win something hands down,

or if you say something is the best, hands down,

it means decisively, it means for sure, it means absolutely.

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

It's always a mystery to me where these comments are,

it almost fell out of my pocket.

This comment is from Helinä.

The comment is, "By the way, your hair looks awesome."

And my reply, "Thanks, I feel like it's getting a bit long.

I might get a haircut this weekend. I like it short."

So I don't talk about my appearance very much,

but I have mentioned to many of you in previous videos,

that I do like my hair short.

That when I was much younger, I had a motorcycle,

and when I wore my helmet, when my hair was longer,

it would look funny when I took my helmet off.

So I ended up getting a really short haircut and I liked it,

and I've just kept it that way ever since.

For me, this feels like really long hair.

I know it doesn't look long to you maybe,

but for me, it's like, ah, I feel like my hair

is starting to stick out on this side, there's kinda

like this funny cowlick thing that happens here.

By the way a cowlick

is when your hair grows in a funny direction.

If you look on this side of my head,

sometimes you can see it,

but the hair starts to grow straight out.

I'm not gonna comment on my eyebrows or eyelashes,

they're doing weird things too as I get older.

But, yes, for me, this would be long.

I've thought about growing my hair out.

When you say in English

that you're gonna grow your hair out,

it means that you're gonna go from having shorter hair

to having longer hair.

But I just can't see myself doing it.

I don't know if I could have this flowing mane of gray hair,

I'm not sure I would like it.

I'm not sure if Jen would like it.

So I think I'll just ask Jen to cut my hair this weekend

and I'll go with the short look for a while longer.

Anyways, I'm gonna leave the beard and mustache on though.

Ow, I just poked my nose. That hurt a little bit.

Bob the Canadian out here making English lessons

and poking his nose and hurting himself a little bit.

(chuckles) I hope you enjoyed this lesson,

and I'll see you in a few days with another one, bye.