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

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When you put something in every nook and cranny
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of your house,
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it means that you put it everywhere.
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Maybe you are someone who really likes flowers.
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Let me show you some flowers back there.
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Maybe you buy flowers,
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and you put flowers in every nook and cranny of your house,
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that means that literally in every room
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of your house you probably have some flowers.
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In our house, when it's time to clean our house,
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we always tell our kids that they need to clean
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every nook and cranny, every nook and cranny of their rooms
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because we want every part of their room clean.
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So again, if you talk about every nook and cranny
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of an area,
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you are talking about the whole thing, all the little holes,
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all the little shelves,
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all the little hiding places of that area.
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In fact, the word nook means like a little hiding place.
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It's a really old English word
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that we don't use very much anymore,
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and the word cranny I think means like a crevice or a crack.
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You might need to look those two words up
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if you're not familiar with them.
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So when you say that you need to clean every nook
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and every cranny,
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it means that you have to clean
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all the little hiding places,
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and you need to clean all of the little cracks
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and all of the little crevices
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of whatever room you are cleaning up.
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So again, you can use this for everything, though.
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Like you can put plants,
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like Jen puts plants in every nook and cranny of the field,
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and you could also use it in your house or any place,
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every nook and cranny.
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