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

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase To rub off on.

Now we use this phrase to describe when

the behavior of one person starts to be

mimicked or copied by another person.

Sometimes one person can rub off on another person.

So here's a good example.

If your boss is mean to everyone,

that can rub off on you.

And you might start to be mean to other people.

Maybe one of your kids or a nephew or niece

is hanging out with a bad kid and the bad

kid's behavior is starting to rub off on the kid

that you know that's not a good thing.

You don't want bad behavior to

rub off on the other kid.

You don't want that kid to copy

what the bad kid is doing.

So when we describe someone's behavior, it

can rub off on someone else.

This can be a good thing too.

When new teachers work with excellent, veteran, well qualified

teachers, you hope that the older teacher's knowledge and

wisdom will rub off on the younger teacher.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is to rub someone's nose in it.

So this means to mention someone's failures or mistakes over

and over again so they feel bad about it.

Let's think of an example here.

Let's say that I accidentally drove

my van, it's sitting over there,

Let's say I drove my van into the barn

wall and every day Jen mentioned it, day after

day she would be rubbing my nose in it.

When you rub someone's nose in something, it means

they did something embarrassing or something that was a

mistake and you just continually mention it.

Not a very nice thing to do.

To review.

To rub off on means when someone's behavior starts

to be copied or mimicked by someone else's.

And to rub someone's nose in it means, you

know, we all make mistakes, but you don't need

someone to constantly rub your nose in it.

You don't need them to constantly mention the fact

that you made a mistake over and over again.

Once is enough.

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

This comment is from Padma.

Colorful trees behind you are so beautiful.

Amazing nature.

And I said yes, it was a beautiful fall day.

And it still is.

You can see a little bit of color here.

I'll give you a little bit of

a color tour if you look here.

Oh, where is that? There it is. This tree.

Let me walk this way so you can see the whole thing.

These trees look amazing right now.

These are the trees in front of my house.

Let me pivot slowly and walk forward

again. If we walk far enough.

I'm walking backwards now.

You'll be able to see them nicely in front of my house.

They look beautiful.

But if we turn all of the leaves from

these trees are pretty much on the ground.

If you look in the distance where I was in a

previous video, most of those leaves are on the ground.

This tree, a lot of the leaves are on the ground.

This tree here, a lot of the leaves have

fallen on the ground and created a carpet.

I think by my house it's a bit of a micro climate.

I think what that means is it's a

little warmer in front of my house.

Maybe it's a little less windy and a little warmer and

I think those trees just turn color a bit later.

Or Jen was mentioning this the other day.

They might just be a different variety. It's.

Can you hear the crunching?

I'll show you the ground again.

They might just be a different variety.

So here you're going to see my crocs.

If I do this, I'm wearing my old.

We actually call those the barn crocs.

I don't know if you know what crocs are

but those are the slip on shoes that are

just made out of plastic that are really.

You don't have to tie them.

So we have a pair that all of us

use when we just need to go outside quickly.

Anyways, I'll give you one last

view of across the river.

Most of the fall colors over there are gone as

well but hey, that's what happens this time of year.

Thanks for watching.

I hope you learned a little bit more

English and I'll see you in a couple

days with another short English lesson. Bye.