Learn the English Phrases "flat out" and "flat broke"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “flat out”.

When you go flat out, it means you're going as fast as you can possibly go.

When Usain Bolt runs the hundred meter, he runs flat out.

He can't go any faster.

We also use this phrase to talk about things like work.

For the last few days, I've been working flat out.

I've been working really, really hard.

Jen and I have both been working flat out.

There is no way I could have worked any faster.

School’s starting soon,

so I have a lot of work to get done, so I'm definitely working flat out

so that when I go back to school, I don't have to worry too much

about some of the YouTube things I want to get done.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase “flat broke”.

I think I may have taught you this phrase before.

It means that you have no money.

When I was a university student,

there were a few times when I was flat broke.

There was even a time where I ate oatmeal for a few days

because I didn't have enough money to buy other food.

But I had a big bag of oatmeal.

So I was flat broke, but I still had at least some food to eat.

I think I ate bananas too at the time.

I think even when I'm flat broke, I find a little bit of money to buy bananas.

So to review, when you go flat out,

it means you're going as fast as you can possibly go, even in a car.

If you were to drive your car 160 kilometers an hour,

you would probably be going flat out.

And then if you

say that you are flat broke, it means that you don't have any money.

It's not a nice situation to be in.

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

This comment is from let's see here.

I'll just say KS.

I had to look up the word gimbal in the dictionary and encyclopedia.

Thanks for teaching some technology not only phrases Teacher Bob.

And my response. It certainly is an interesting device.

I find that the world of technology is very fascinating.

So thank you KS for that comment.

And yes, I'm not actually using that right now

because I have it right here because I wanted to be able

to show you guys a little bit about how this works.

It's it's kind of wild.

Like, I don't remember what all the buttons do, but I can spin it

so that the camera’s sideways and what it does...

here...

let's let's actually turn this on

and then maybe I'll show you the footage from this when it’s ah...

let's see here.

I have to go here.

I shouldn't be using technology while I'm trying to make an English lesson.

I might run overtime here, but let's see if we go to there and then it connects.

There's a it's a little more complicated than you might expect.

Let's see here.

So we're going to flip the camera and we are going to

flip it this way How do I do this now...

there we go.

Are you enjoying watching Bob struggle with technology?

So now you'll see, no matter how I tilt this,

the phone is always pointing at me.

It's pretty wild.

I will see if I can get this clip and I'll mix it in or edit it in with this video.

But yeah, it's been fun.

I'm not sure 100% yet how I'm going to use this.

I mentioned that in my last video, but I just have my phone on it.

And which way does this go? There we go.

Let me put this back.

So there you go.

A little bit of new technology.

I don't think I actually hit the record button while I was doing that.

So you won't see that footage.

But hey, I'm forgetting to walk around.

I'm over here

at the local

what we call a strip mall because it's all in one long row.

I'm back in town because I need to stop by at school today.

As I mentioned, school starts in two weeks,

but I have meetings starting in one week, so I need to start to think about that.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

See you a couple of days with another short English lesson. Bye.