Learn the English Phrases TO NOT GIVE SOMEONE THE TIME OF DAY and CALL IT A DAY

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In this English lesson,
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I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,
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to not give someone the time of day.
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If you don't give someone the time of day,
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it means that you are ignoring them.
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I mean, on a simple level,
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it means if they asked you what time it was,
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you would not tell them the time
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because maybe you're annoyed with them,
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but we use this phrase all of the time
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to refer to when one person
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does not want to talk to another person,
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they don't want to talk to them on the phone
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and they don't want to see them.
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Often, this can happen after two people date for a while.
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So maybe they are involved romantically
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and they go out on a few dates and then they break up.
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Sometimes, one person doesn't even wanna
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give the other person the time of day after that,
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because maybe the breakup didn't go well,
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maybe there are hard feelings between the two people,
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and so one person maybe wants
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to just ignore the other person
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and they don't want to give them the time of day.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase, call it a day.
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It's late here on a Monday,
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you can see that there's a long shadow behind me,
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and I think, after this video,
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I'm gonna call it a day.
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In English, when you say
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that you are going to call it a day,
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it means that you're going to stop working,
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it means that you're done all the work for the day
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and it's time to just have a good meal and relax.
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So I'm sitting here at the end of a long day,
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thinking, "I think, after this video,
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"I'm gonna call it a day."
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Again, when you say that you're going to call it a day,
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it simply means that you're going to end your day of work
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and begin your day of relaxing
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or just enjoying yourself.
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So after this video, of course, I'm gonna call it a day,
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I'm going to have supper,
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I think I'm gonna just relax after supper
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and watch the news.
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I'm definitely gonna call it a day
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as soon as I hit the stop button on this camera.
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Let's look at a comment from a previous video,
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this comment is from, I'm not sure how to say your name,
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but Google Translate said your name was Here,
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or in French, we say.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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So from Here is this comment,
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"Maybe you shouldn't give those annoying people
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"the time of day.
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"Never let anyone else get you down."
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And my response was,
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"That's true, sometimes when people say annoying things,
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"it's best to just ignore them."
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So you'll notice that, in this comment,
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the viewer used the phrase,
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don't give them the time of day.
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Let me read it again,
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"Maybe you should not give those annoying people
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"the time of day.
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"Never let anyone else get you down."
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I think this is great advice,
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it's difficult to do sometimes,
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but I think it's important in life
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to not always listen to people who are negative.
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I know sometimes it's hard,
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sometimes people have opinions
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about what you are doing
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and it's hard to not listen to them.
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I like the fact that the vast majority
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of the comments on my videos
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on both of my YouTube channels are positive.
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I actually really like reading the comments on my videos,
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they are overwhelmingly nice,
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you are all very, very nice people,
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and so I love reading them.
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But every once in a while,
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there will be a comment that's a little bit negative.
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And so what I usually think then is,
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"This person isn't really being negative,
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"maybe they're just not sure
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"how to write a really kind English sentence,
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"because they're learning English,
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"maybe they are just having a little bit of trouble."
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So I usually give people the benefit of the doubt.
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In English, when you give someone the benefit of the doubt,
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it means they do something that may appear rude or mean,
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but you're thinking to yourself,
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"Well, maybe there's another reason
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"why they said this this way
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"or wrote this this way."
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So that's what I do with comments all the time,
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I think, "Oh, this comment seems a little bit mean,
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"but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt
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"because I know they're learning English,
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"maybe they didn't know exactly
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"how to say this politely."
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Anyways, this was a great video,
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thanks for watching again.
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I'm gonna call it a day now,
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I'll see you in a couple of days
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with another new English lesson.
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