Learn the English Phrases I MADE IT and TO HAVE IT MADE

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "I made it".

Now you can use this literally.

If you made a cake and someone said, "Who made that cake?"

You could say, "I made it."

But we also use this to say

that we've gotten to the end of something difficult,

or we've gotten to the end of a journey.

So I could say this, "I made it.

I made it to the end of the school day today.

I taught my first day.

School started today, and I made it."

I think this is really a short form

of saying "I made it to the end of the day",

or "I made it through my day."

But "I made it."

It was a good day.

I really, really enjoyed it.

I had a good time and it was a lot easier

than I was expecting.

I think that sometimes I feel like I'm a little rusty,

but when I get back in the classroom,

everything just comes back to me.

So it was a long day.

It was an enjoyable day.

I made it.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase "to have it made."

"To have it made",

this looks like some of the same words,

but when we put them in this order,

it means that someone has a really easy and good life.

Let's say you have a friend and their job

is to count cars going past their house,

and they get paid $100 an hour to do it.

No one has a job like that,

but you would definitely in that case say,

that person has it made.

You would say, "Oh, you know what?

If you wanna have it made, you should get the same job

as this guy.

He gets paid $100 an hour to count cars."

You would really have it made if you had that job.

It would be really easy.

You would just sit in a chair.

Again, I don't think that job exists.

But to review, when you say "I made it",

it means you've gotten through your day

or to the end of a journey.

I don't think I explained this,

but you can also use this phrase when you get somewhere.

So when I went on a trip last week, when I got there,

I could text Jen and say, "I made it."

I'm in the town that I was driving to.

And when you have it made,

it simply means that you have a really easy and good life.

Your job isn't very hard.

You have a really nice spouse and really happy children.

You have it made.

It's always a nice feeling probably.

I don't have it made.

I have a nice life, but I wouldn't describe it

at that level.

It's a good life, but I don't have it made.

I still work hard every day.

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

This comment is from Mohd Ags,

and the comment is this.

Have to laugh a bit because the subtitle person

always makes Mohd Ags' name into "mode eggs",

like the egg.

So anyways, Mohd Ags.

"It's interesting how you will soon change

from free as a bird to busy as a bee.

Don't worry, Bob, you're a great teacher.

You got this.

Everything will be hunky dory."

And my response is "Thanks for the encouragement.

It goes a long ways."

I do really appreciate it, by the way.

By the way, as I respond to this,

I've actually finished my first day back.

It went great.

So Mohd Ags used the phrase "hunky dory".

I love that phrase.

When everything's hunky dory,

it means everything's really good.

It means everything's going well.

And certainly today went really well.

I know I've talked about this a little bit already,

but it was just really nice.

It was nice to get back in the groove,

to do some lesson planning.

It was nice to talk to students.

It was nice to be able to show students

how to do certain things in my business class,

in my computer class.

It's just fun for me to explain things.

So I really, really enjoyed it.

I just stepped in a hole, though.

Hopefully I don't do that again.

Anyways, what was I saying?

It was a nice day.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

We have three more days of school this week.

I think it will go well.

And it certainly reminds me

that I'm in the right profession.

I think I mentioned this the other day.

All of us have an opportunity in life

to try and find a job that we like

and I certainly have found one that I like a lot.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

Bob the Canadian here.

I hope you enjoyed this short, little English lesson

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

Bye.