Learn the English Phrases "to die for" and "to die of boredom"

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to die for.

When you describe something as being to die for,

it just means it's really, really good.

I know it has the word die in it, which is a sad word,

but if you were to go to a restaurant

and order a chocolate dessert and it was amazing,

you might tell your friend, "You need to order

the chocolate dessert, it is to die for."

It just means that it's really, really good,

it's like the best chocolate dessert

you've ever had in your life, it's to die for.

The second English phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase, to die of boredom.

We sometimes use the word die, and I'm not sure why,

because obviously death and dying is a very serious thing,

but sometimes people will describe something

as it was so bad that they were going to die of boredom.

Sometimes I think my students

might describe my classes this way.

I hope you don't find my English video lessons this way,

where you're thinking, "Oh, I'm gonna die of boredom,

if I sit and watch this whole lesson."

But I know there have been times in my life,

where maybe I've gone to see a movie,

that someone said was to die for

and I actually find it extremely boring

and I would say, "You know what?

I almost died of boredom while I was watching that movie."

Anyways, to review, when you say something is to die for,

you are saying that it is amazing,

when you say that you're going to die of boredom,

it means you're at something or watching something

and it's just not interesting,

you feel like you're so bored

that you're going to die, not literally.

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

This comment is from Anaya.

"Hi Bob, iconic place, love it so much.

The greenery and daylight boosted my mood way too much.

Thanks for that."

And my response, "You're welcome, Anaya.

I'm always happy to share the view."

And I am, I'm always happy to share the view

and some of you noted as well,

that it has turned quite green here.

It happens rather quickly,

I'm always a little bit shocked at how quickly

we go from winter and cold to things looking quite green.

I'll spin you around in a sec to see the other side here.

Yes, I still have to fix this picnic table, (laughing)

I'll get to it eventually, but if we walk over here,

I'll spin you around and you'll see

we do not have leaves on the trees yet,

but we do have the grass turning nice and green.

You'll notice that the daffodils over here

are starting to bloom

and just all in all,

it is a nice spring day.

I really enjoy this, if I'm quiet once again,

I just hear birds chirping.

It is a nice time.

I should show you this though.

Last fall, Jen and I, our order for tulips didn't come in

and so we only ended up with a small amount of tulips.

Usually we have a lot more,

you can see that they're in

what we would call a raised bed here

and they are starting to pop out of the ground

and they will bloom in a bit,

but usually this is much longer,

it's usually about four or five times longer than this.

But yeah, a little bit of a mix up last fall, that's okay.

If we look here, you can see that on the maple trees,

we are close to the leaves popping out.

So anyways, beautiful spring day, it's to die for this day.

(laughing) Anyways, thanks for watching.

I'll see you in a couple days, sorry, this one's late.

I'll get back on track eventually, hopefully, bye.