Learn the English Phrases "a clean slate" and "clean as a whistle"

In this

English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “a clean slate”.

When you start something with a clean slate, it means it's brand new

and no one's aware of you or the mistakes you've made in the past.

Let's say you have a job and you quit.

When you start your new job, you would start with a clean slate.

No one at the new job knows that you've made mistakes in the past.

I know you guys haven't made mistakes, but you would start with a clean slate.

No one would know any of the problems or things that you've done wrong in the past.

I actually get to do this every semester.

So twice a year I get to start my classes with a clean slate

because our semesters are about four and a half months long,

close to five months long.

At the end,

the students leave and I get new students and I start with a clean slate.

So I'm looking forward to that in a couple of weeks to start with a clean slate.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase clean as a whistle.

So at our school we have a janitor.

We also call that person a custodian.

And their job is to clean the school.

Right now, my classroom is clean as a whistle.

I walked by the other day and I noticed that they had cleaned the carpets.

They had had a professional carpet cleaner come in.

So my classroom is clean as a whistle.

I don't have any video to show you.

I'll be at school next week and I'll maybe do a lesson there.

The carpets are clean, the walls are clean.

There's actually not even any desks in the room.

So it just looks very empty and definitely clean as a whistle.

So this simply means that something is as clean as it possibly can be.

I don't know why it's clean as a whistle.

I don't know the origin of the phrase, but to review

when you start something with a clean slate,

it means that you're starting new and no one knows anything about your past

or things you've done before.

And when you say something is clean as a whistle, well,

you don't have to whistle when you say it.

It just simply means that it's really, really clean.

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

This comment is from

I'm just going to say KA,

I am enjoying watching Bob struggle with technology and my response, Haha.

Yep. It's the best way to learn.

Dive in and figure things out.

So yeah, in my last video I was struggling a little bit with my new gimbal, new

camera, new gimbal, and I think that is definitely

the best way to learn

new things. Just dive in.

If you have never had an English conversation with someone,

just schedule one, Go on Preply or one of those other sites and book one.

Just dive in.

I always think struggling with something new is the best way to figure it out.

So I would say do that.

I do that with technology all the time.

I see something that I think might be useful.

I buy it and then I struggle for a few days to figure it out.

But here's my secret.

I learn as much new stuff as I can during the summer.

I don't know for those of you that have been around a while,

you might have recognized this.

I learn a lot of new things in the summer, and then I get into a routine for

about nine or ten months during the school year, school year here on YouTube.

So I don't often try to learn new things

when I'm when I'm busy teaching.

Then it's just routine.

I try to do the same thing every day.

Let me see my time here.

Oh, I got like 30 seconds left. Awesome.

Hey, I have never seen it so lush here.

I've talked a lot about the rain, and

I've talked about it in a negative way, but it also has positive results.

This tree here isn't doing well, though.

Maybe it was too wet.

But behind me, I have never seen this many leaves on our trees.

It's kind of cool.

I think fall will be beautiful this year because of all the rain we had

and how happy most of the trees are except this little one.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

See you in a few days with another short English lesson. Bye.