Learn the English Phrases TO BUMP INTO SOMEONE and TO BUMP HEADS WITH SOMEONE

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In this English lesson,
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I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,
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"To bump into someone."
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Now, this can mean to literally bump into someone.
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When you're standing in line
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and you're standing really close,
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if you step forward without looking,
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you might bump into the person in front of you.
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But we also use this to mean to run into someone,
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or to meet someone randomly when you go somewhere.
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I could say something like this,
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"Jen, I went to the grocery store
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and I bumped into my brother while I was there."
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This simply means that I wasn't expecting my brother
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to be there, but while I was at the grocery store,
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I saw him and I had a conversation.
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It doesn't mean that we actually walked into each other.
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It simply means that we bumped into each other.
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We met each other randomly without expecting
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to see each other there.
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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is to bump heads with someone.
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Now, this has quite a bit of a different meaning.
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This means to get into an argument,
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or into a fight with someone.
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When you bump heads with someone,
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it means you don't agree with them.
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You might have someone that you work with
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and you just never agree with them,
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and you're always bumping heads with them.
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You would say,
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"Oh, the other day I was talking to Joe at work
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and we were bumping heads again.
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I bumped heads with him,
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because we just could not agree on the same thing."
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So when you bump heads with someone,
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it means that you disagree with them.
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So to review, when you bump into someone,
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it means that you meet them randomly, or unexpectedly,
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and when you bump heads with someone,
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it means that you get into an argument with them,
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that you get into a disagreement with them.
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So let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Andrew, and Andrew says,
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"Hi, Teacher Bob, happy Thanksgiving."
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It was a nice day, by the way, a couple of days ago.
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"I got a question.
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A year ago, you told us your family was about
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to buy another puppy, but the prices were through the roof.
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Two to $3,000 for a pup.
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Has the dog market changed
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after all this crazy quarantine stuff?"
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And my response is this.
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"We're thinking that we might get one this coming spring.
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Prices have come down a bit, but not enough yet."
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So, yeah, it was kind of weird,
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during the middle of the pandemic,
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dogs or puppies were very, very expensive,
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so we didn't get one.
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We might still get one later this fall, but I doubt it,
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because it's easier to train a dog once the winter is over.
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So we're thinking now we might get
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a puppy later this spring,
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I'm looking up because I'm walking this way,
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so you can see that the leaves have started to change color.
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Let me do that thing once again,
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where I spin you guys around and let you have a look here.
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You can see that we have some reds,
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and we have some yellows,
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maybe even a few tinges of orange starting to come.
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It's really nice at this time of year,
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when the leaves start to turn color.
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A lot of them are still green, but certainly,
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as I walk around and as I give you a view,
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you'll be able to see that fall is starting to come.
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There's some trees this way, too,
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that we can go have a look at.
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So you can see these trees.
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There's an evergreen tree in front of me,
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which isn't gonna change color,
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but we have some yellow leaves there.
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And if we look this way,
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you'll see that this tree line
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has certainly started to change color.
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And when you look at the shrubs behind me as well,
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you'll see that everything is starting to get
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a little bit of a brown look to it.
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The grass is still green,
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but a lot of the native grasses and other weeds
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that grow around here are certainly starting to have
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that fall look to them, and it's beautiful.
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The only thing that's not fall-like
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is it's actually quite warm today,
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unseasonably warm for this time of year,
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but I'm sure it'll get cool soon.
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Anyways, I'll see you in a couple of days
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with another short English lesson, bye.
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