Meaning of YOU MUST BE NUTS - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English when we say to someone, "You
must be nuts."
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It means that we think they're a little bit
crazy.
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We think that they're doing something where
you would need to be crazy to do it.
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I'm afraid of heights.
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I don't like going to high places.
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So if a friend of mine said, "I'm going to
go jump out of an airplane this weekend with
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a parachute.
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I'm going parachuting."
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I would say to them, "You must be nuts!",
because I would never, ever think about doing
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that.
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If I had a friend who said, "I'm going to
go climb Mount Everest, the tallest mountain
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in the world."
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I would probably say to them, "You must be
nuts!
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It's not just high up there but it's really
really cold."
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So when you say to someone, "You must be nuts."
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It means that you think that they're just
a little bit crazy.
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