Learn the English Phrases SLIP OUT and SLIP UP - A Short English Lesson with Subtitles

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn

the English phrase slip out.

So this actually has three meanings.

The first meaning means to leave somewhere maybe secretly.

So if I'm at a party and I say to my friend,

"Hey, I'm gonna slip out, don't let anyone else know.

I need to go home.

I need to go to bed early because I have to work tomorrow."

So you can say I need to slip out.

That means to leave somewhere somewhat secretly.

The second meaning slip out can mean

that you're going to take off an article of clothing.

You can say to someone,

"I'm just gonna run upstairs and slip out of my work clothes

and put on some jeans and a T-shirt."

So you can use slip out to mean

that you're taking off your clothes.

The third meaning of slip out can mean

that you say something by accident.

Maybe you have a secret you're supposed to keep

and you might let it slip out while you're talking.

So you accidentally say what you're not supposed to say.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase slip up.

When you slip up, it means you make a mistake.

And I think I did a little lesson on this

a year or two ago.

I did the phrase goof up and slip up.

When you slip up, it means you make a mistake.

Sometimes at work, I slip up and I forget to do something

that I'm supposed to do.

I think everyone has that every once in a while

where they slip up at work,

or they slip up at home,

or they slip up in a relationship.

If I forgot to say happy anniversary to Jen

on our anniversary, I would say, "Oh, I slipped up."

It kinda means I forgot.

It means I made a mistake.

So to review, to slip out means to,

if you are somewhere and you leave,

you could say that you are slipping out.

I'm going to slip out and grab something.

I'll be back in a sec.

If you are taking off your clothes,

you can say that you are slipping out of your clothes.

I'm going to go slip out of my work clothes

and put on some jeans and a T-shirt.

Or maybe you accidentally say something.

You could say, "The other day I was talking to my mom

and I let slip out that we were having a party without her."

That would be mean, wouldn't it?

To have a party without your mom?

You should always invite your mom, shouldn't you?

And then a slip up, or to slip up means to make a mistake.

By the way, this is a verb and a noun.

I can say that's a real slip up,

or I can say, "Wow, he is going to slip up."

So you can use it both ways.

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

There's snow coming off the roof behind me.

If you're wondering why I, every once in a while,

close my eyes.

Let's get this lesson done though.

This comment is from Javier.

Javier says, "Pull up your socks, Bob."

I think this might be more British, it's not, I don't think.

I think we all use it, but anyways,

"You'd better step up your game,

because the quality of your videos

are definitely going south.

Obviously I was totally kidding.

Your short lessons are still out of this world

and we're really lucky to take advantage of them.

Thanks a bunch, buddy. Take care."

And my response was, "Ha ha.

There's always room for improvement.

I know you were kidding though.

Joking aside, I'm glad my lessons are helpful

and that was a wonderful use of a lot of English phrases

in your comment, good work."

Yes, Javier, that was amazing work.

So let's look at this.

Pull up your socks means to do something better.

Step up means to improve your game.

When something is going south,

it means they're getting worse.

And by the way, Javier was just joking

that my videos were getting worse, but actually,

a couple of weeks ago,

I wasn't super happy with them.

Let's continue.

I was kidding, which means to be joking.

Out of this world means amazing,

if you say something is out of this world.

And then lucky to take advantage of them.

Yes, Javier, that was a awesome use of a whole bunch

of English phrases.

Good work.

That's excellent.

I'm just impressed sometimes

when people are able to write so clearly

in a language that is not their first language,

so awesome job.

And I wish all of you the best

as you continue learning this crazy language

that we call English.

And I think I'm gonna go inside

before I get a lot of snow on my head.

Hopefully that doesn't happen.

See you in a couple of days

with another short English lesson.