Learn the English Phrases TO DIG UP SOME DIRT and TO DIG IN YOUR HEELS

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase

to dig up some dirt.

When you dig up some dirt on someone,

it means you look for things that they've done in the past

that weren't good things to do.

A lot of times, people who are running for office,

if they wanna be mayor or prime minister,

the people who don't want them to be

will dig up some dirt on them,

or they'll try to dig up some dirt on them.

So they'll try to find out if they did anything

when they were younger that people would frown upon.

When you frown upon something,

it means it's something that you shouldn't have done.

And they might even try to dig up some dirt on them

in the sense that they are trying to find out

if they did something illegal.

That would be bad.

It's really hard to get into office.

It's really hard to become mayor,

or prime minister, or president

if you did something illegal in the past.

So sometimes they'll try to dig up some dirt

on people who are trying to be in a position of power.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is to dig in your heels, when you dig in your heels,

so your heel is like,

I don't know if I can get my leg up that high, I can't.

Your heel is at the back of your foot.

When you dig in your heels,

it means that you stubbornly refuse to agree with someone,

or you stubbornly refuse to do what someone

is asking you to do.

Our children, at least one or two of our kids,

often dig in their heels.

One of my kids will definitely dig

in their heels quite easily.

If I say, "You need to clean your room,"

sometimes they say no,

which, kids shouldn't do that, should they?

They shouldn't disagree with their parents.

But when I think back to when I was

a young Bob the Canadian, I would often dig in my heels

when I was arguing with my mom and dad.

I was a good kid. I was definitely pretty stubborn.

So to review, when you dig up some dirt on someone,

when you go to dig up some dirt on someone,

you're trying to discover things they did in the past

that were either illegal, or just not very nice.

And when you dig in your heels,

it means that you stubbornly refuse to do

what someone is trying to get you to do.

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

This comment is from Mohammad, and Mohammad says,

"Thanks, dear Bob, useful lesson.

By the way, I really enjoyed playing 'GeoGuessr.'

My mom watched it. It was 3:30 AM here.

So we were at our wit's end."

My response was this, "Wow.

That is really early in the morning.

I'm impressed that you stayed up so late,

or maybe you got up early.

I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for watching."

So, yes, I've been playing "GeoGuessr."

By the way, thanks, Mohammad, for that comment.

I've been playing "GeoGuessr" on Sunday evenings.

It is a pretty fun thing to play.

I have been enjoying it.

It's a game where you travel using Google Maps

and you try to guess what country you're in.

And so I've been playing it most Sunday nights.

We just played last Sunday night.

There's about 90 people or so that show up

and it's a lot of fun.

I've enjoyed it.

We had a streak of 19 correct answers a while ago.

So that was a lot of fun.

So anyways, if you're interested, "GeoGuessr."

It's hard to hold this camera.

Sorry if I'm making you a little seasick.

"GeoGuessr" Sunday nights.

Anyways, my one phrase today had the word dirt in it

because I'm not sure if you can see this,

it's probably way too sunny,

but way in the distance over there, there is a tractor.

I'm not sure you can see it.

There are a lot of people,

we would say working ground right now.

There are a lot of dust clouds on the horizon,

because a lot of farmers are in the fields

with their tractors and they're getting the land ready.

That's really bright.

They're getting the land ready to plant crops.

So it's a very active season here.

It's been dry for about a week,

so that's been very helpful.

A lot of farmers are out planting.

Anyways, Bob the Canadian here. Thanks for watching.

I'll see you in a couple of days

with another short English lesson, bye.