Learn the English Terms PICTURE-PERFECT and PERFECT STRANGER

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In this English lesson,
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I wanted to help you learn the English term picture-perfect.
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If you describe something in English
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as being picture-perfect, it means that it has no flaws.
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You could say, "The other day I went fishing
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and it was a picture-perfect day."
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That would mean the water was calm. The sun was shining.
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The temperature that day was probably amazingly perfect.
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You would say, "It was a picture-perfect day to go fishing."
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Sometimes we even describe families as picture-perfect.
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Sometimes there are families where the mom and dad
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are very attractive and the kids are all really cute.
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And we just say, "It's a picture-perfect family."
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So when something is picture-perfect,
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it means it is without flaw.
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I guess it just means it's perfect,
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but we like to say picture-perfect
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to emphasize it a little bit.
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The second phrase I wanted to help you learn today
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is the phrase perfect stranger.
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When you meet someone who you don't know
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and you you've never, ever seen before,
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we say that they are a perfect stranger.
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It's kind of a weird little phrase.
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Here's a good example though.
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Here's something that happened to Jen and I one time.
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We were at the mall and we were in the food court
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at the mall eating food with all five of our kids.
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So the food court is the place at a shopping mall
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where you can buy food.
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There's lots of restaurants.
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And we were sitting there, all seven of us, eating food
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and a man walked up and he was a perfect stranger,
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neither Jen or I had ever seen him before
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in our entire life, and he gave Jen $50 and he said,
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"It's really cool to see a big family like this.
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Normally people only have one or two children now.
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And I remember when I was a kid,
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I grew up in a really large family."
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So he was a perfect stranger.
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We had never, ever seen him before in our life.
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He was a perfect stranger and he gave us $50
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because he thought that because we had so many kids
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it was really cool.
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So anyways, two little stories there for you.
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So once again, if something is picture-perfect,
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it means that it has no flaws
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and it just looks amazing or is amazing.
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And a perfect stranger is a stranger
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but kind of a stranger who you've never, ever seen before.
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Sometimes you'll see someone on the street
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or you'll see someone at work who is a stranger to you,
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but a perfect stranger is someone
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that you've never, ever seen before in your entire life.
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Hey look, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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And this comment is, I think, from Cat's English,
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at least that's what Google translate told me
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that your name was.
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So thank you Cat for this comment.
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"Knowing the meaning of really something and something else
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is really something."
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So this was a little play on words by Cat
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from the lesson that I just did on the phrases,
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really something and something else.
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And it's a great English sentence.
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So basically what she's saying is,
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if you know those two phrases, it's really something.
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So again, knowing the meaning of really something
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and something else is really something.
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And my reply was, "Haha, awesome use of both phrases."
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So just so you know, sometimes in my comments,
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I reply with, "Haha."
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It doesn't mean I'm laughing at you.
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Simply saying, "Haha," simply means you made me smile, okay?
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So thank you Cat for that comment.
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That was a great comment from that video.
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I'll put a link up there
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to that video if you haven't seen it yet.
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Hey, I just thought I should give you an update on COVID-19.
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I haven't talked about COVID in Ontario
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or in Canada for a little bit.
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Cases have gone up but they have now leveled out.
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So we have about 600 cases a day in Ontario.
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That's a little high, but we have very few deaths from that.
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So they have gotten a lot better
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at treating COVID once people do have it.
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And many people in Ontario, Canada
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are doing everything they are supposed to do.
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We're wearing masks, we're staying two meters apart,
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we are doing everything we can
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to stop the spread of this virus.
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So I hope the same is happening in your country.
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