Learn the English Phrases "That's cold!" and "to stop cold"

In this English lesson, I wanted to

teach you the English phrase that's cold.

This is a phrase we use to

describe when someone does something that's kind

of mean, something that's not very nice.

Here's a good example.

Let's say your cousin is dating someone and

he decides to break up with your cousin.

So he sends her a text message saying, I

don't want to go out with you anymore.

We would say, oh, that's cold.

Because when you dump someone, when you end a

relationship with a text message, it's very impersonal.

It's not very kind or nice.

It would probably be nicer to say to the person

in person, hey, I don't think it's working out.

So when you dump someone, when you end a relationship with

a text message, this is a great way to describe it.

That's cold.

That's not a very nice way to do it,

although I hear that's the common way to break

up with people now for younger people.

But anyways, the other phrase I wanted to teach

you today is the phrase to stop cold.

If I was doing the lesson and all of a sudden

I stopped like that, I would describe that as stopping cold.

Maybe I heard something, maybe the

dog barked, but I stopped cold.

When you stop cold, it means you

stop what you're doing very quickly.

When I'm walking outside at night, sometimes if I

hear a scary sound, I might stop cold because

I'm not sure if it's someone stealing something from

the barn or something other weird... or some other

weird thing that's happening out here.

So to review, when you describe something by saying,

that's cold, you're describing an action by someone that's

kind of mean and not very nice.

And when you stop cold, it means that you

stop what you're doing very suddenly in order to

listen or look around or do something else.

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

This comment is from, I think, Tara. Yes.

In Russian, it's to move like a turtle,

referring to yesterday's lesson or the previous lesson,

what have you done with the snow? It vanished.

Here in Ukraine, everything is covered

with snow and it's minus twelve.

Well, it's exactly the same weather

at my place right now, Tara.

It is minus twelve out here

and everything's covered with snow.

My response is, it's back again today.

So, yes, the snow has kind of

come and gone a few times here.

And one of the things that I find interesting

is I had to find my sunglasses yesterday because

even though if you look up in the sky,

the sun is not very, very bright.

Oh, it's over there.

But because of the snow, it's very hard to see.

Like if I take my glasses off, I have

to squint in order to see the camera.

So I dug out my sunglasses.

They were in the van, buried under all kinds of junk.

By the way, I don't keep my

vehicles very tidy on the inside.

I've never shown that on camera, but definitely

a messy person when it comes to vehicles.

So I dug around, I found my

sunglasses, and now we're all set.

I know I show you geese a lot, but this is kind of fun.

The river has frozen a little bit.

I'm not sure how many geese are

down there, but it is a lot.

So they're standing on the frozen part of

the river, but they're also swimming in the

non frozen part of the river.

Sorry, I stopped cold there for a

second because the camera wasn't turning around.

So, yeah, our yearly winter visitors, the geese, they

don't seem to mind the cold at all.

They're definitely similar to me.

I'm out here, it's minus twelve.

I don't even have a winter hat on.

And I'm not cold at all.

In fact, on my walk this morning, I had

too many layers on, so I had to take

my toque off so I didn't get too warm.

That's actually dangerous in cold weather, by the way.

You don't want to get too warm in cold weather.

You don't want to start sweating

because that's kind of dangerous.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

I'll see you in a couple of

days with another short English lesson. Bye.