Learn the English Phrases A MIXED BAG and TO BE MIXED UP - A Short English Lesson with Subtitles

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn

the English term a mixed bag.

When we say something is a mixed bag

it means it's a little bit of one thing,

a little bit of something else,

and maybe a little bit of a third thing,

or fourth, or fifth thing.

When I go to buy shirts

it's kind of a mixed bag at the store.

There are short sleeve shirts and long sleeve shirts,

new shirts, expensive shirts, old shirts,

there are shirts that (chuckles) are on sale.

It's a mixed bag.

It's kind of a mixed bag when it comes to buying shirts.

My mechanic sells different kinds of vehicles

and when you go and look at the lot

where he has all the vehicles, the parking lot,

it's kind of a mixed bag.

He has vans, and cars, and pickup trucks,

there's all different sorts of vehicles,

all different kinds of vehicles.

It's definitely a mixed bag.

But hey, the second phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase to be mixed up.

When you are mixed up it means

you're a little bit confused about something.

And sometimes it means you're confused about

two different things.

Sometimes when people are coming over

they come late because they got mixed up.

They weren't sure what time they were supposed to come.

Maybe when my sister's having a party,

maybe my brother goes to my other sister's house

because he was mixed up,

he didn't know which house he was supposed to go to.

So he was mixed up.

He was mixed up and he wasn't sure where to go

he was a little bit confused.

So, to review, when something is a mixed bag

it means that it is a variety of things.

Our flower farm is kind of a mixed bag.

We sell flowers, we also sell flower seeds,

and we sell the bulbs.

You can buy cut flowers, you can buy flowers in a pot,

it's kind of a mixed bag.

And when you are mixed up it means that you are confused.

It doesn't have to be about two different things

but we usually use it when we're talking about that.

He bought one kind of bouquet for his wife

but it was the wrong one because he was mixed up

he wasn't sure which one he was supposed to buy.

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

And, I think it's in the pocket inside my sweater

so (chuckles) give me a second here.

I thought it was in the pocket of my jacket.

I thought I forgot it for a moment there.

This comment is from Roland and Roland says,

" "Inception" is one of the most mind-blowing movies

I have ever seen in my life.

The concept of time travel can really blow your mind.

My response was that movie really had me thinking.

It was hard to keep track of all the dreams within dreams."

So Roland is using the terms mind-blowing and blow your mind

the terms and phrases from the last lesson.

Excellent use of both of those Roland

thank you for that comment.

The movie "Inception" definitely blew my mind.

It was hard to get my head wrapped around

what was happening in that movie.

It was mind-boggling. It blew my mind.

Definitely (chuckles) excellent uses of all those phrases

and terms to describe that movie.

In that movie people go to sleep

and then when they're asleep

they can go into other people's dreams.

But then they can have dreams inside of the dream

and it gets a whole lot more confusing than that.

And by the end I wasn't sure what was going on.

And then Roland also mentioned time travel.

The concept of time travel can really blow your mind.

And that reminded me this morning during my live lesson

by the way, I'm recording this on Saturday.

Someone mentioned that they pretended they were me

from the future coming back in time.

Time travel is a mind blowing concept.

I'm pretty sure it's not possible,

but if it was possible it would certainly be interesting

to be able to go forward in time or to go back in time.

That's how we refer to time travel in English.

You can go forward in time and you could go

you could go forward in time

and maybe visit your older self,

or you could go back in time

and you could visit your younger self.

I don't know if I'd wanna do it.

I think if time travel was invented

I don't think I would go on a time travel trip or whatever

they (chuckles) would end up calling it.

Anyways, Bob the Canadian here,

hope you're having a good day today.

I'll see you in a couple of days

with another short English lesson. Bye.