Learn the English Phrases TO KICK BUTT and TO KICK ONESELF

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you
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learn the English phrase, to kick butt.
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Now, I think you all know what kicking is.
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It's something you do with your foot,
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and your butt is below your back.
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That's probably the best and nicest way to describe it.
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But the phrase to kick butt, doesn't actually refer to going
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and kicking people in the butt, it refers to winning.
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We use this a lot to talk about sports teams.
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We'll say that, you know,
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I'm going to watch my favorite team play today.
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I hope that they will kick butt,
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basically you don't mean they're gonna go on the field,
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and kick the other players in the butt,
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what you mean is that they're going to play the game.
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They're gonna play really, really well.
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And they're gonna win by a lot of points.
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So, if you were to say, I hope that they will kick butt,
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it means that you hope they will win.
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And if you were to say,
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my team really kicked butt yesterday,
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it means that they played hard
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and they won the game by a lot of points.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase, to kick oneself.
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Sometimes I kick myself when I make a mistake,
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sometimes you think about something,
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like maybe pizza was on sale last week.
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It was a two for one special, and I didn't buy it.
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I could say, oh, I just keep kicking myself,
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because I should've bought that pizza,
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it was such a good deal.
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Maybe you're making a video and you say something wrong.
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And then when you get in the house
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and you start to edit the video,
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you see that you made a bunch of mistakes.
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I'd say, oh, I just keep, just kicking myself,
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because I made the video and I made a bunch of mistakes.
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By the way, there's no mistakes in this video,
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just so you know.
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But anyways, when you kick yourself,
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or to kick oneself means that you did something wrong
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and you're just kind of annoyed
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with yourself that you did it.
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Anyways to review, to kick butt does not mean
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to actually go out and kick someone in the butt.
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It means that you are maybe on a sports team
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and you win by a lot or any other thing that you can win,
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you can say that you kicked butt.
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And to kick oneself,
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to kick oneself is simply to describe a situation
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where you did something where it could've went better,
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and you kind of regret that it didn't.
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And so you're kind of kicking yourself about it.
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Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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Once again, if you're wondering why I keep stopping
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while I'm talking it's because my ears are getting cold.
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I don't know why I didn't wear a hat.
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I never dress for the weather
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when I come out to do these videos.
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Anyways, this comment is from Adam, and Adam says,
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Bob, you seem to be getting a kick out of winter.
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And my response was this, I do get a kick out of it.
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It's so beautiful to see the whole world
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covered in a layer of snow, I love it.
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It's very pleasing to my eye.
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So as you can see, yes, I am enjoying myself out here,
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even though my ears are really cold,
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I'll be done in a minute, so I'll be fine.
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But Adam, thanks for that comment.
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Yes, it's just beautiful.
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I love seeing all of the snow everywhere.
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Let me give you another better view.
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Like when you look around right now, it's just beautiful.
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I don't think I would really enjoy
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living in a country that didn't have winter,
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as much as I'm complaining about my ears.
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And as much as when I see television commercials right now
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where people are on vacation in some exotic, warm place,
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I do think that would be fun, but at the same time
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there's something really beautiful about all this.
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And it's really fun to be able to come outside and enjoy it.
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So I know some of you live in places that don't have winter.
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I am jealous of the fact
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that it's probably a lot warmer there,
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but I do like living in a country
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where we have a nice cold winter.
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I think I've mentioned that numerous times.
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Anyways, Bob the Canadian here,
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hope you're having a good day.
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See you tomorrow with another short English lesson.
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