Meaning of NOOK AND CRANNY- A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

When you put something in every nook and cranny

of your house,

it means that you put it everywhere.

Maybe you are someone who really likes flowers.

Let me show you some flowers back there.

Maybe you buy flowers,

and you put flowers in every nook and cranny of your house,

that means that literally in every room

of your house you probably have some flowers.

In our house, when it's time to clean our house,

we always tell our kids that they need to clean

every nook and cranny, every nook and cranny of their rooms

because we want every part of their room clean.

So again, if you talk about every nook and cranny

of an area,

you are talking about the whole thing, all the little holes,

all the little shelves,

all the little hiding places of that area.

In fact, the word nook means like a little hiding place.

It's a really old English word

that we don't use very much anymore,

and the word cranny I think means like a crevice or a crack.

You might need to look those two words up

if you're not familiar with them.

So when you say that you need to clean every nook

and every cranny,

it means that you have to clean

all the little hiding places,

and you need to clean all of the little cracks

and all of the little crevices

of whatever room you are cleaning up.

So again, you can use this for everything, though.

Like you can put plants,

like Jen puts plants in every nook and cranny of the field,

and you could also use it in your house or any place,

every nook and cranny.