Meaning of GROWING LIKE A WEED - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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Sometimes in your lawn you have these kind of plants which are called weeds.
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Weeds are things that grow where you don't want them to.
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But we have a phrase in English, "growing like a weed", that we use to describe children
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who grow really, really quickly.
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So you might be visiting your relatives and maybe you haven't seen your nephew for a long
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time and he's a lot taller all of the sudden.
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You would say, "Wow!
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You are growing like a weed!"
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Basically saying you have grown really, really quickly.
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When I was young I grew somewhat slowly until I was about 13 and then I definitely, for
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a while there, I was growing like a weed.
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So you can use this to describe children when they are growing really, really quickly.
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I'm sure some of you, when you were young, were growing like weeds.
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So if we were to use this in the past we would say, "When I was young I grew like a weed."
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If I was to use it in the present I tense I would say that, "Right now my son in particular,
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is growing like a weed."
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And if I was to use it in the future I would that someday when I have grandkids maybe I'm
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sure that the grandkids will grow like weeds.
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Or I think they are going to grow like weeds.
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So when you say someone is growing like a weed it means that they're growing really,
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really quickly.
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