Learn the English Phrases TO STAMP OUT and TO PUT YOUR STAMP ON - An English Lesson with Subtitles

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to stamp out.

The most literal meaning of to stamp out

is when you have a fire outside

and you use your feet to stamp out the fire.

You actually stomp on the fire, that's a different verb,

but it means the same thing.

So literally, it means to stamp out the fire.

But we also use this when we're talking about other things.

I really hope that we can stamp out the Corona virus.

I hope we can stamp it out.

It means that you extinguish it or end it.

A lot of people would love

if we could stamp out violence in our cities

or stamp out violence in our societies.

So when you stamp something out, it means you end it.

I really hope that we can stamp out

all of the bad things in the world,

but especially the Corona virus.

I really hope we can stamp it out.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is to put your stamp on something.

When you put your stamp on something,

you add your own unique style to it.

A good example of this would be,

I have a room that I use in the house as my office.

Jen painted the room and we put some furniture in the room

but I kind of put my stamp on it.

When you put your stamp on it,

it means you hang up your own pictures.

You decorate things in a way that you like.

You put your stamp on it.

You kind of use your personality to help decorate it.

You can use this to talk about a room.

You can use this to talk about something

that you're creating.

When you're making food,

maybe you use a certain kind of spice

because you want to put your stamp on it.

So to review, when you stamp out,

the phrasal verb to stamp out means to stop something,

to end something, to extinguish it.

And when you put your stamp on something,

it means you add something to it

that makes people able to see

that you were involved in decorating it.

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

This comment is from Padma, I have it in my pocket here.

And Padma says this, "At the start of the pandemic,

I was in denial that it was really happening.

But as it progressed,

I had to deny myself my freedom of traveling.

Luckily, things have started improving slowly."

And my response was this.

"I think we were all in the same boat

back at the beginning.

I was in denial as well for a bit

until I started to hear about people I knew getting sick,

then I took it seriously."

So first of all, Padma, thank you for that comment.

This was from the lesson I taught the other day

on the phrases, in denial, and to deny oneself something.

So Padma, you did an excellent job

of using both those sentences.

Those are just great example sentences in your comment.

And then I do want to talk about the phrase,

to be in the same boat.

When you're in the same boat,

it means that everyone is experiencing the same thing.

So I do think back at the beginning of the pandemic,

we were all in the same boat.

A lot of us were in denial that it was actually happening.

I remember thinking one day I was in school,

and that morning, as a staff, we all went out for breakfast.

So it was Thursday, March 12th.

I can't remember the exact date,

but it was a normal school day.

We all went to a restaurant early in the morning

and as a staff, all my coworkers and myself,

we all had breakfast together.

And then later that day we went home

when the school day ended

and then the principal called later that night

or sent me an email, I can't remember

and said school was closed for three weeks.

And then it ended up being a month

and then two months and then three months

and then right till the end of the school year.

So yes, at the beginning, Padma, I would agree,

I was also in denial.

It's hard to believe that

the National Basketball Association, NBA,

I think that's what it stands for.

They cancel all their games

and all these sports were stopping.

So I was certainly in denial as well

but once I knew people who were sick,

that certainly changed my mind.