Learn the English Phrases GET TO THE POINT and BOILING POINT - A Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn
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the English phrase get to the point.
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Are you ever in a conversation
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where someone's telling you a story
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or they're telling you about
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something they did the day before,
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and they just go on and on?
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In English, when we say that someone is going on and on,
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it means they're telling a story
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that should take about 30 seconds,
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but as you're listening to them,
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it's probably gonna take them about 5
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or 10 minutes to tell the story,
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In that situation, you could say, "Hey, get to the point."
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It's not a nice thing to say.
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I guess you could say it in a nice way.
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When my children are telling a long story about something,
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sometimes I say, "Hey, get to the point."
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If you wanted to say it politely, you could say,
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"Hey, I'm running a little short on time.
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Could you please get to the point?"
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But when you say to someone "Get to the point,"
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basically, you wanna know the end of the story.
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You don't wanna know all the details along the way.
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The other English phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase boiling point.
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Notice both of my phrases have the word point in it today.
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I usually do it that way, I think.
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But boiling point is of course,
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the point at which water starts to boil.
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When you heat water up, when it gets to 100 degrees Celsius,
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that's the boiling point.
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It starts to bubble in the pan.
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But that's not why I'm teaching you this phrase today.
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We also use the phrase boiling point
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to talk about the point at which someone gets angry.
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So if you are frustrated and you are aggravated
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and someone's just bothering you,
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at a certain point you reach your boiling point.
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And you might, at that point, yell something like,
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"Just get to the point." (chuckles)
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So anyways, to review,
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when you say to someone "Get to the point,"
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you want them to tell the end of the story,
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instead of telling the whole story for a very long time.
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And when you reach your boiling point,
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it's the point at which you go from being quietly annoyed
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to actually being angry and maybe,
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even the point at which you start yelling at someone.
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Hopefully that doesn't happen.
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Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Lolly Lolly,
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a longtime viewer on both by channels.
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Lolly Lolly says, "Hello from France.
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My boss is driving me nuts.
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So it's time for me to find another job
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and turn over a new leaf.
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Thanks, Bob."
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And it's not on here,
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but she also said her boss was driving her crazy
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or driving her bananas, I think.
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My reply was bosses can be that way sometimes.
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I have to admit, sometimes it's hard
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to appreciate the work a boss does
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because they always seem to be telling us what to do.
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So thanks for the comment, Lolly Lolly.
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I'm not sure if you would agree with me on that.
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I think that bosses are interesting people.
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I mean, in order to have a job, you have to have a boss,
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but bosses sometimes can be just a little bit annoying.
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They always seem to find the things you are doing wrong
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instead of always telling you all of the good things
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that you are doing right.
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So when you have a job, obviously you work hard
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and you try to do the best job possible.
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But anyways, Lolly Lolly,
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that was a great use of two different phrases,
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the turn over a new leaf phrase,
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and also the phrase that your boss was driving you nuts.
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I think I might do a video on all the different phrases
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that you can use when you're frustrated.
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Hmm, let me think about that.
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Anyways, it's a really nice day here today.
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I did wanna talk a little bit more about bosses.
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I do think bosses sometimes are...
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We find them annoying, but they are a necessary evil, okay?
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I don't know if you know the English phrase necessary evil.
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That means that it's neither good nor bad but it's required.
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In order to have a job, you have to have a boss.
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If you didn't have a boss, you wouldn't have a job,
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so it's kind of necessary.
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We would call that a necessary evil.
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Not really evil, but something that's just necessary
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in order for you to have the life that you want to have.
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Sorry, I'm still using paper.
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I don't know if you've watched this far.
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I have not found a good solution yet.
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I tried the whiteboard, I can't, my penmanship's awful.
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I tried magnetic letters, I didn't have enough.
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