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

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help
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you learn the English phrase to play dirty.
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When you play a game, maybe you're playing
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soccer or what most of you call football,
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or you're playing a board game.
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If you cheat or if you use tactics that
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aren't good, we say that you are playing dirty.
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When you play dirty, it means you cheat at something.
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I'm going to tell you a little story quick.
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Years ago, I was a defenseman on a soccer
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team or football team, and someone from the other
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team got past me with the ball.
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And so I was chasing him down, and I was
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faster than him, but I couldn't quite catch him, so
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I tripped him and I got a yellow card.
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Good thing it was only a yellow card.
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But at that point in time, you could
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say that I had decided to play dirty.
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I knew that I couldn't catch the person with the ball.
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I knew I couldn't get the ball away from them.
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So I chose to do something that
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would be considered not very nice.
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And I tripped him.
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And then he said to me, is that all you got?
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Which is kind of like a put down to me.
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I think I responded and said, yeah, that was it.
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So anyways, the second phrase I wanted to
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teach you today is a dirty look.
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When you give someone a dirty look, it means
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you look at them in a way where you're
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expressing that you don't like what they're doing or
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you might even be a little bit angry.
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If I was in class and students were talking and
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I said, please, please stop talking, and they didn't, I
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might give them a dirty look, like definitely not smiling.
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The opposite.
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I would probably look at them like this.
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That's about as mean a look as I can give.
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By the way, I think I taught this phrase before.
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It's starting to come back to me.
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I think three years ago, I might have taught
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this phrase and given you the same look.
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So anyways, a dirty look is when you look at
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someone and you make kind of a serious face so
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they know that, that you don't like what they're doing.
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So to review, to play dirty means to cheat,
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or at least to do things that aren't really
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cool in the game that you're playing.
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And if you give someone a dirty look, it means
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you look at them kind of like this in disapproval.
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And by the way, we usually say
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to give someone a dirty look.
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That's the phrase that we use.
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But, hey, let's look at a
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comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Francisco, and the comment is
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very useful one I don't know exactly how to
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translate into Spanish, but I got it. Lol.
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And my response languages are interesting, aren't they?
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Sometimes something has an equivalent phrase
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in another language, sometimes not.
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So that was Francisco responding to the no harm no
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foul that I talked about in the previous lesson.
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So hey, guess what?
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It is the first day of market today.
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We are heading off to sell flowers.
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We are loading the van.
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I actually took a personal day from work.
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I don't know if you have those where you are.
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I'm allowed to take a day twice a year where
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for no real reason I can take the day off.
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It's just part of my contract as an employee.
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So usually on the first day of market of the year
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and the last day of market I take a personal day.
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So Jen and I are heading off to market this afternoon.
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Hopefully we sell lots of flowers.
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If you look here, I've been in
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the peony patch a bit lately.
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You can see that the peonies are blooming.
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These aren't quite ready to pick.
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We usually wait till they're a little bit soft.
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I think I've explained that before in a video as well.
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This one's probably ready.
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Actually, they feel a little bit like a marshmallow.
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This one is definitely ready.
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It might actually be a little too far along,
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but Jen has been out here harvesting like crazy
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lately and we have lots of peonies to sell
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today so hopefully that goes well.
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Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this little short lesson.
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I hope you didn't get scared when I gave you a
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dirty look because I know you weren't doing anything wrong and
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I hope that when you play games, you don't play dirty.
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Thanks for watching.
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I'll see you in a couple
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days with another short English lesson. Bye.
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