Learn the English Phrases "to have a free hand" and "to have free rein"

- In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,

to have a free hand.

Now, when you have a free hand,

it means you have the freedom to do what you want

in a certain situation.

My job's really nice, because I have a boss,

but when I'm in the classroom,

I have a free hand to do pretty much anything I want to,

within reason of course.

So when you have a free hand, you can do what you want.

When you're your own boss,

you have a free hand to do whatever you want all the time.

Jen is her own boss here on the flower farm,

so she has a free hand,

she can decide to do things or not do things

or do things anyway she wants to.

The second phrase I wanna teach you today

is to have free rein,

and this actually means the same thing

as to have a free hand, but notice there's no a.

So when you have free rein,

you can do things any way you want,

when you have a free hand,

you can do things anyway you want.

But the one phrase has this word in it, the letter A,

a, and this phrase does not, so you have free rein.

I love doing YouTube,

because I have free rein to do whatever I want,

I don't have a boss telling me what to do.

And again, I do like my job,

because I pretty much have free rein

to do what I want creatively in the classroom.

So to review, to have a free hand or to have free rein,

they mean the same thing,

it means to have freedom in any kind of situation.

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

this comment is from Qiu Park, and the comment is,

"Jen is awesome, she did a great job,

it's fascinating to be a flower grower, she grows beauty."

And my response, "Jen always says she grows beautiful things

and they make people happy.

I make English lessons and they make people happy,

it makes us happy when we help people be happy."

So I guess Jen and I kind of are in the happiness business.

Thanks Qiu Park for that comment, that was great.

Yes, in the last video,

I'm going to walk out here to the peonies again.

I know it gets a little repetitive, but the cool thing is,

is they are really close right now to blooming.

In fact, some of them have been harvested already,

so you'll be seeing some plants

that don't have any flowers on them.

And I know it might look like they're not blooming yet,

but we do cut the peonies before they actually bloom.

And there are mosquitoes out here,

which reminds me of Mohd Ags made a comment

in the last video about wanting to be a fly

on the wall on the farm.

See, this one is already gone, Jen has harvested it.

We usually pick them

when they feel a little bit like a marshmallow,

so that one's almost ready to go.

This one is not quite ready to go, but we pick them,

yeah, at what we call the marshmallow stage.

When they're at the marshmallow stage,

when you squeeze them,

they feel a little bit like a marshmallow.

You know what a marshmallow is?

It's one of those white things, they come in a bag,

if you roast them over a fire,

they end up tasting really, really yummy,

you can make something out of them called s'mores,

but we haven't done that yet this year,

we'll do that in a few weeks.

There's definitely something flying around here,

but I don't think they are mosquitoes,

they must be something else.

So yeah, actually, let's go to the end,

and then I'll flip you around and we'll walk back,

so you can see me walking through the peony row.

Let's do that, let me flip you around.

There we go.

So we'll just kinda fly through here.

Hopefully, it doesn't shake or move around too much for you.

I had to stop there for a sec,

because I wasn't sure how much time I had left.

But yeah, we certainly grow a lot of peonies

and we will be harvesting a ton of them

over the next few days.

Anyways, let me check my time.

I'm done, thanks for watching,

I'll see you in a couple days with another one, bye.