Learn the English Phrases TO SHAKE ON IT and TO SHAKE THE HABIT

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In this English lesson,
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I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, shake on it.
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When you sell something to someone,
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especially something used, when you agree on a price,
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you might shake on it.
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That means you'll literally shake hands.
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And this means that you've both agreed on the price,
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and you are both going to make sure
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the deal actually happens.
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The other person's gonna give you money,
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and you're going to give them the item.
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So you shake on it.
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It kind of shows that you have formalized the deal.
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By the way, I'm not sure with the pandemic,
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whether we're going to come up with a new way to do that,
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whether we're going to keep doing that
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here in North America.
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But when you agree to sell something,
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you usually shake on it.
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When you buy a car from a dealership,
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you'll often shake on it when you agree to buy it.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase to shake the habit.
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We also say to kick the habit,
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and often, we shorten this to I'm trying to shake it.
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Do you still smoke cigarettes?
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No, I'm trying to shake the habit.
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I'm trying to kick the habit.
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Is he still, let me see.
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I'm trying to think of something else people do.
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Let's stick with the cigarette theme.
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Is he still smoking cigarettes?
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No, he's trying to shake it.
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He's really trying to shake the habit.
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So to review, when you shake on something,
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it means that you agree.
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So when you make a deal,
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you will shake on things with someone.
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And then to shake the habit means to
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simply quit doing something that you shouldn't do,
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because it's bad for you.
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I feel like I'm talking really fast today.
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Sorry about that.
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For some reason, I'm a fast talker today.
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I'll try to speak just slightly slower.
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Let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Francisco.
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"YouTube is a game changer
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for people who want to learn English,
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especially with your channel."
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And I say, I respond with,
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"I agree, it's the best thing ever
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for learning any language."
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So thanks, Francisco.
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By the way, I was saying
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that I think YouTube is the best thing ever
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for learning any language, not my particular channel.
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I do like my English learning channels,
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but they aren't the most amazing things in the world.
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I just think I do the best job I can,
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and people seem to like them.
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But yes, YouTube is a game changer.
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I know for myself, learning and practicing French,
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it's just amazing.
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I just remember years ago, if I wanted French videos,
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I would have to order them,
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and it would take two or three weeks
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for the videos to show up.
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Now I can just go on YouTube, and watch a video.
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Similar to books.
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The internet has revolutionized
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my ability to buy books in French.
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I know you're learning English,
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but I'm practicing my French.
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I can just go on Amazon,
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and I can say, show me all of the French books,
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and I can just buy an ebook for my Kindle, just like that.
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And it arrives.
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So it's very, very cool, and very, very awesome.
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I'm not sure if you can see this.
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I'll give you a look across the river.
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I know I mentioned
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that a tree blew down on our property,
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well, a tree also blew down across the river.
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Not sure if you can see it.
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I will zoom in when I do the edit here,
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but there's a tree down over there.
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And if we go this way, we'll walk along here.
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You can see all of the cool things that grow
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in the wild in Ontario, Canada.
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If we go down this way,
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you'll see that the neighbor has already been out
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with his chainsaw across the river there.
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There's another tree that went down,
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and he is in the process of chopping it up for firewood.
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So I guess there's, every cloud has a silver lining.
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Is that how they say it?
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When trees blow down, for some people,
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it just means they have a little bit of firewood
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for the winter.
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So there's a little bit of good
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in the bad of having trees blow over in a windstorm.
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Anyways, I hope you're having a good day.
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I popped out to do this video,
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and I'm gonna do my members only video
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for my other channel right now,
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but I'll see all of you
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in a couple days with another English lesson, bye.
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