Learn the English Phrases IT'S ON ME and THAT'S NEWS TO ME

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you
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learn the English phrase, it's on me.
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If someone says to you, it's on me,
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it means they're going to pay for something.
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Sometimes this happens when you go out to eat with someone
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and as you're getting out your wallet
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at the end of the meal,
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the other person might say, "No, no, don't worry about it.
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It's on me."
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When they say that, what they're mean (laughs)
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what they mean is that they're going to pay for your meal.
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It's awesome.
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People might even say this before you go out to eat
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or before you go do something I can say to my brother,
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"Hey, do you want to go see a movie tonight?"
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And if my brother was like,
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"I'm not sure."
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I could say, "Come on.
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It's on me."
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That means if we go to a movie, if I say,
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"It's on me,"
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it means I'm going to pay for him.
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I don't usually ever do that, though.
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If my brother and I go see a movie,
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he pays for his own movie.
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I don't usually say, "It's on me."
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Sometimes when I go out to eat, I do though.
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Hey, the other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase that's news to me.
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When you say, "That's news to me," to someone
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it's usually after they've told you something
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that you didn't know about.
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If someone said to me, "Hey the hardware store
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in our local town is closing."
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I could say, "Oh really?
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That's news to me."
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What I mean when I say that is that
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I had not heard that before.
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If someone said, "Hey, did you hear,"
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if my sister said to me,
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"Hey, did you hear mum sold her house?"
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I would be like, "What?
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That's news to me.
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I didn't even know she was planning to sell it."
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My mom hasn't sold her house, by the way.
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It's just an example.
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So to review, if someone invites you to go out
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to do something and it costs money and they say,
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"It's on me,"
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it means they plan to pay for it.
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And if you are already out doing something
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and when you go to pay for it with your wallet,
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someone says, "No, no, it's on me."
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It means they're going to pay for you.
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That's kind of cool.
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And if someone says to you, "That's news to me,"
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they're basically saying
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that whatever you just told them, they hadn't heard before.
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It's something new for them.
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It's news to them.
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Hey, let's look at a comment, though, from a previous video.
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This comment is from Sutopa and Sutopa says this,
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"Sir, can you explain last fall, late last fall.
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So in the previous lesson I referred
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to the season of fall by saying last fall
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and then I corrected myself to say late last fall.
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Here's my response.
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Sutopa to explain that.
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Sure, last fall for us in Canada
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refers to the time from about mid September to mid December,
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the entire season of last year.
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So if I say last fall, I'm talking about the season of fall
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that we just experienced a few months ago.
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Late last fall would mean sometime in November or December
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of last year or the last part of the fall last year.
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So when I'm referring to the season of fall,
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I'm not just referring,
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when I say last fall, I'm referring to the entire season
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that occurred last year.
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When I say late last fall, I'm talking about
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the last few weeks of the season of fall.
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If I said early last fall, I would be referring
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to at the time of this video, September, October of 2020.
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But if say late last fall, I'm talking about the last part
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of the fall so end of November, beginning of December.
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I hope that made some sense.
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I could even say like, you know, halfway through last fall
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which means somewhere at the midpoint of the season of fall.
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We often use last when we're talking about things.
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Late last, you know, late, late yesterday I did this
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or late last week I went to the grocery store.
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So that would mean that on Thursday or Friday of last week,
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I went to the grocery store.
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So it's interesting that we use the word late there.
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I should probably do an entire lesson
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about the word late because we use it in a lot
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of interesting ways and the word next as well.
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Maybe I'll see if I can do that in a future video.
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Anyways, thanks for watching.
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By the way, I plan to teach more phrasal verbs
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on this channel over the next few months.
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I plan to do at least one phrasal verbal week, if not more.
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So look for that.
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See you in a couple of days
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with another short English lesson.
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