Learn the English Phrases TO END UP and UNTIL THE BITTER END

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In this English lesson. I wanted to help you
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learn the English phrase "to end up."
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This is a phrase we use to talk about
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the thing that eventually happens.
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I think the best way for me to explain it
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is to give you a few examples.
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Today my son was playing basketball after school
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and Jen was going to pick him up,
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but she got really busy, so I ended up picking him up.
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So past tense there.
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So instead of Jen, it was me.
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So it can be used to talk about a situation
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where something happens that maybe you weren't expecting
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or not the way you thought and it's kind of the conclusion.
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Another way to use it is in a sentence with if.
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I could say, if you don't work,
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you're going to end up with no money.
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So the situation that results from not working
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is that you don't have any money,
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so you end up with no money.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase
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"until the bitter end."
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Sometimes people go and watch a basketball game
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and they leave early because their team is losing,
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but sometimes people will stay until the bitter end.
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Sometimes we even just say til.
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They stay til the bitter end.
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Jen and I, when we go to see something,
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we always stay until the bitter end.
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We are not the kind of people to leave early from something,
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usually because we want to get our money's worth
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so we usually stay until the bitter end.
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Even when we go to market to sell flowers,
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sometimes other vendors will leave early
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but we always stay til the bitter end
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because we wanna sell as many flowers as we can.
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We'll go have a look at them in a bit.
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Anyways, to review.
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When you end up doing something,
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it means it's the end result.
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If you watch this video,
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you might end up learning some English.
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And when you do something until the bitter end,
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it means you do it until the very end.
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It means you don't quit early.
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It means you keep doing it.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Noriko.
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"Welcome back, sir.
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Seems like you're better now.
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Shadowing what you speak does the trick
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for practicing my speaking muscle, thanks."
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And my response, shadowing is a great technique.
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I'm glad it does the trick for you.
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So great use of the phrase, Noriko.
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And yes, shadowing, which is when you watch a video
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or listen to audio and then you pause it
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and you repeat what the speaker has said,
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so if you watch my videos, if you were to practice
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doing shadowing, you would hit pause right now
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and then you would say "practice doing shadowing"
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and then you would hit play again.
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Something like that.
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Hey, I promised that I would show you these
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when they were blooming, and they are definitely blooming.
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So the peonies have definitely started to bloom.
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You can see that we have some pink,
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or we might call this fuchsia.
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Over here, you can see one that's about to pop open.
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It's about to burst into flower, I guess.
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Sorry, I lost the train of thought there.
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And over here, you'll see a big row.
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Normally we would have harvested all of these.
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We've harvested quite a few, but we're a little behind
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and it has been raining a bit here.
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You can see in the distance that it's a little cloudy.
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I'm actually outside right now,
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it's both sunny and cloudy at the same time.
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So when I look this way, I have to squint
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because it's very sunny, but when I look this way,
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I can see pretty easily, but yes, to the south of us
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I think it's definitely raining when I look at that sky.
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So yeah, when it rains, we sometimes don't get
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all of the peonies because they start to open up
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and they get a lot of water on them.
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We like to harvest them when they're closed,
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and once they open, we just leave them out in the field
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and it actually just makes things look
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quite nice and quite beautiful, so we don't mind doing that.
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Anyways, thanks for watching this short lesson.
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I hope you're having a good day.
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I know I certainly had a great day today,
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and again, I just hope you did as well.
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I'll see you in a couple days with another short lesson.
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Bye.
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