Learn the English Expressions YOU HAVEN'T HEARD THE HALF OF IT and YOU'LL NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT

In this English lesson I wanted

to help you learn the English expression,

you haven't heard the half of it.

This is an expression we use to join together

two parts of a story we're telling,

or to join together two pieces of news

that we're sharing with someone.

So, let's imagine that your cousin

has gotten into a car accident,

and you're telling your dad about it.

You say, dad, Joe got into a car accident.

Your dad might say, is he okay?

And you might respond with yes,

but you haven't heard the half of it.

He got into a car accident because he was driving

40 kilometers an hour over the speed limit.

So again, the phrase you haven't heard the half of it,

is a phrase we use to join together two different ideas,

or two different parts of a piece of news

that you're sharing with someone.

I have another phrase here, you'll never hear the end of it.

And this is a little bit different.

You would use this phrase to make fun of,

or to bug someone who is usually really good at something,

and then they make a mistake.

So let's imagine that you are a perfect driver,

let's imagine that you have no speeding tickets,

no accidents.

Every time you drive, you drive perfectly,

and you are always telling other people

how to drive perfectly.

You are a driving expert in your own mind,

and then you get a speeding ticket,

or you get into an accident.

Someone would probably say to you, wow,

you'll never hear the end of it now.

So you'll never hear the end of it.

Basically what they're saying is,

because you've spent your whole life proclaiming

and telling everyone that you are an amazing,

perfect driver, and now that you've done something wrong,

now that you've gotten a ticket,

or you've gotten into an accident,

you'll never hear the end of it.

That means people will probably keep bugging you

a little bit about that ticket,

or about that accident that you got into.

So just to review,

when you say you haven't heard the half of it,

it means you're going to share more information

about a story that you're telling.

And when you say you'll never hear the end of it,

you're kind of saying to someone, yeah, you know,

you're going to get bugged for a long time.

You're going to get made fun of for a long time,

because you said you were really good at something,

and now something has happened

that makes you look a little bit silly.

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

This comment is from Maz,

and this is, this comment from Maz is,

I always get that compliment whenever I sing in the shower.

So this is from the video where I did the English phrase,

don't quit your day job,

where you kind of make fun of someone

who's doing something where you don't think

they have enough talent to be successful at it.

And Maz says, I always get that compliment,

in quotations, whenever I sing in the shower,

my response was that's the best place

to sing for many of us.

So, why do we sing in the shower?

I think because it's just a fun thing to do.

And you don't think everyone in the house

is listening when you do that.

I'm not a very good singer.

I'm not sure if you are good singers,

all of you who are watching, but I'm not a very good singer.

I have trouble singing on key.

So if someone sings a C note,

my C note is a little lower, or higher than a C note.

So I have often just run technology instead of singing.

I've always been a sound person

instead of a singer in a choir or anything like that.

So yes, I sing in the shower,

because I feel like it's a great place to sing,

and it's a safe place to sing.

So anyways, Maz, thanks for that comment.

That was awesome of you.

Let me just talk a little more quickly for a little while.

I was just gonna talk about something

that I'm missing right now.

It is almost halfway through the summer.

In a couple of weeks it will be July 30th.

And usually at this point in the summer,

we start to do back to school shopping.

We start to buy things for our kids,

because September is coming,

and they need to go back to school.

And I miss it, I used to not enjoy it.

It used to be kind of annoying

to go back to school shopping,

but now that I'm not allowed to go, I miss it.

There are many things right now due to COVID

that I used to not like doing that I kinda miss,

because now I'm not allowed to do it.

I'm sure you're having the same thing.

Anyway, Bob the Canadian here,

I'll see you tomorrow in another short English lesson.