Learn the English Phrases "to play dirty" and "a dirty look"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English phrase to play dirty.

When you play a game, maybe you're playing

soccer or what most of you call football,

or you're playing a board game.

If you cheat or if you use tactics that

aren't good, we say that you are playing dirty.

When you play dirty, it means you cheat at something.

I'm going to tell you a little story quick.

Years ago, I was a defenseman on a soccer

team or football team, and someone from the other

team got past me with the ball.

And so I was chasing him down, and I was

faster than him, but I couldn't quite catch him, so

I tripped him and I got a yellow card.

Good thing it was only a yellow card.

But at that point in time, you could

say that I had decided to play dirty.

I knew that I couldn't catch the person with the ball.

I knew I couldn't get the ball away from them.

So I chose to do something that

would be considered not very nice.

And I tripped him.

And then he said to me, is that all you got?

Which is kind of like a put down to me.

I think I responded and said, yeah, that was it.

So anyways, the second phrase I wanted to

teach you today is a dirty look.

When you give someone a dirty look, it means

you look at them in a way where you're

expressing that you don't like what they're doing or

you might even be a little bit angry.

If I was in class and students were talking and

I said, please, please stop talking, and they didn't, I

might give them a dirty look, like definitely not smiling.

The opposite.

I would probably look at them like this.

That's about as mean a look as I can give.

By the way, I think I taught this phrase before.

It's starting to come back to me.

I think three years ago, I might have taught

this phrase and given you the same look.

So anyways, a dirty look is when you look at

someone and you make kind of a serious face so

they know that, that you don't like what they're doing.

So to review, to play dirty means to cheat,

or at least to do things that aren't really

cool in the game that you're playing.

And if you give someone a dirty look, it means

you look at them kind of like this in disapproval.

And by the way, we usually say

to give someone a dirty look.

That's the phrase that we use.

But, hey, let's look at a

comment from a previous video.

This comment is from Francisco, and the comment is

very useful one I don't know exactly how to

translate into Spanish, but I got it. Lol.

And my response languages are interesting, aren't they?

Sometimes something has an equivalent phrase

in another language, sometimes not.

So that was Francisco responding to the no harm no

foul that I talked about in the previous lesson.

So hey, guess what?

It is the first day of market today.

We are heading off to sell flowers.

We are loading the van.

I actually took a personal day from work.

I don't know if you have those where you are.

I'm allowed to take a day twice a year where

for no real reason I can take the day off.

It's just part of my contract as an employee.

So usually on the first day of market of the year

and the last day of market I take a personal day.

So Jen and I are heading off to market this afternoon.

Hopefully we sell lots of flowers.

If you look here, I've been in

the peony patch a bit lately.

You can see that the peonies are blooming.

These aren't quite ready to pick.

We usually wait till they're a little bit soft.

I think I've explained that before in a video as well.

This one's probably ready.

Actually, they feel a little bit like a marshmallow.

This one is definitely ready.

It might actually be a little too far along,

but Jen has been out here harvesting like crazy

lately and we have lots of peonies to sell

today so hopefully that goes well.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this little short lesson.

I hope you didn't get scared when I gave you a

dirty look because I know you weren't doing anything wrong and

I hope that when you play games, you don't play dirty.

Thanks for watching.

I'll see you in a couple

days with another short English lesson. Bye.