Learn the English Phrases "to rub off on" and "to rub someone's nose in it"

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you
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learn the English phrase To rub off on.
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Now we use this phrase to describe when
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the behavior of one person starts to be
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mimicked or copied by another person.
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Sometimes one person can rub off on another person.
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So here's a good example.
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If your boss is mean to everyone,
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that can rub off on you.
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And you might start to be mean to other people.
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Maybe one of your kids or a nephew or niece
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is hanging out with a bad kid and the bad
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kid's behavior is starting to rub off on the kid
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that you know that's not a good thing.
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You don't want bad behavior to
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rub off on the other kid.
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You don't want that kid to copy
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what the bad kid is doing.
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So when we describe someone's behavior, it
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can rub off on someone else.
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This can be a good thing too.
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When new teachers work with excellent, veteran, well qualified
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teachers, you hope that the older teacher's knowledge and
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wisdom will rub off on the younger teacher.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you
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today is to rub someone's nose in it.
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So this means to mention someone's failures or mistakes over
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and over again so they feel bad about it.
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Let's think of an example here.
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Let's say that I accidentally drove
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my van, it's sitting over there,
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Let's say I drove my van into the barn
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wall and every day Jen mentioned it, day after
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day she would be rubbing my nose in it.
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When you rub someone's nose in something, it means
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they did something embarrassing or something that was a
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mistake and you just continually mention it.
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Not a very nice thing to do.
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To review.
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To rub off on means when someone's behavior starts
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to be copied or mimicked by someone else's.
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And to rub someone's nose in it means, you
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know, we all make mistakes, but you don't need
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someone to constantly rub your nose in it.
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You don't need them to constantly mention the fact
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that you made a mistake over and over again.
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Once is enough.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Padma.
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Colorful trees behind you are so beautiful.
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Amazing nature.
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And I said yes, it was a beautiful fall day.
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And it still is.
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You can see a little bit of color here.
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I'll give you a little bit of
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a color tour if you look here.
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Oh, where is that? There it is. This tree.
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Let me walk this way so you can see the whole thing.
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These trees look amazing right now.
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These are the trees in front of my house.
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Let me pivot slowly and walk forward
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again. If we walk far enough.
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I'm walking backwards now.
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You'll be able to see them nicely in front of my house.
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They look beautiful.
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But if we turn all of the leaves from
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these trees are pretty much on the ground.
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If you look in the distance where I was in a
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previous video, most of those leaves are on the ground.
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This tree, a lot of the leaves are on the ground.
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This tree here, a lot of the leaves have
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fallen on the ground and created a carpet.
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I think by my house it's a bit of a micro climate.
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I think what that means is it's a
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little warmer in front of my house.
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Maybe it's a little less windy and a little warmer and
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I think those trees just turn color a bit later.
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Or Jen was mentioning this the other day.
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They might just be a different variety. It's.
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Can you hear the crunching?
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I'll show you the ground again.
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They might just be a different variety.
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So here you're going to see my crocs.
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If I do this, I'm wearing my old.
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We actually call those the barn crocs.
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I don't know if you know what crocs are
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but those are the slip on shoes that are
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just made out of plastic that are really.
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You don't have to tie them.
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So we have a pair that all of us
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use when we just need to go outside quickly.
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Anyways, I'll give you one last
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view of across the river.
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Most of the fall colors over there are gone as
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well but hey, that's what happens this time of year.
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Thanks for watching.
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I hope you learned a little bit more
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English and I'll see you in a couple
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days with another short English lesson. Bye.
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