Learn the English Phrases GOOD TO GO and READY TO ROLL

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In this English lesson,
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I wanted to help you learn the English phrase good to go.
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In English, when you say you are good to go,
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it means you are ready.
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Sometimes when Jen and I are leaving for a trip,
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Jen will say, are you ready to go?
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And I'll say, yep, I'm good to go.
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I'm all ready to leave.
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I'm all ready to go to our destination.
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Sometimes it even means just to be prepared to do something.
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At the beginning of the school year,
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someone might say to me, hey, Bob, are you good to go?
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Do you have all of your lessons ready?
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Are you ready for the first day of school?
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And I might reply by saying yes, absolutely.
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I am good to go.
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A lot of times when I get home from work,
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I still have to make a little video like this.
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So I grab all of my camera gear,
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and then once I have my paper, and my comment,
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and my camera gear, then I am definitely good to go.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase ready to roll.
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Now, I think I already taught this phrase
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about six months ago, but it kind of matches good to go.
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Good to go and ready to roll
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are both ways to say that you are ready to do something.
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So when Jen says, Bob, are you ready to go?
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I can say, yep, I'm ready to roll.
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I got my keys, I got my wallet.
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I got my watch, I got my wedding ring.
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What else do I usually bring?
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My phone, I'm ready to roll.
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So basically, just another way
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to say that you are ready to do something.
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And I would even say this at the beginning of a school year.
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Bob, do you have your lesson plans ready?
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Are you ready for the first day of school?
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And I could reply, and say, yep, I'm ready to roll.
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So to review, when you are good to go,
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when you are ready to roll,
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sorry, the paper's not working right.
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When you are ready to roll,
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it means that you are completely
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and totally ready to do something.
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I should have worn my mittens today.
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I guess I wasn't totally good to go
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when I came out to do this video.
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I guess I was a little bit good to go.
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Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Judit.
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On Monday, we got an unexpected snowstorm here in Hungary.
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Not only the snow had fallen, but the wind also blew.
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And now we are looking forward to spring.
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I have read a lot of idioms with spring.
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As I got a client for massage on Friday,
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I can't join you live,
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but definitely will watch your lesson afterward.
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And my response, I'm sorry to hear you can't make Friday,
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but I'm happy that you can watch it later.
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So thanks, Judit, for that comment.
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Yes, sometimes people who like to watch my Friday lesson
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on my other channel, sometimes they're not able to make it.
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And that is totally understandable.
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We are all very, very busy people.
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I know that for myself,
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I make sure that I schedule my week as best I can,
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but sometimes there are things where
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I'm just not able to make it,
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where I'm just not able to do it.
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So I'm glad that when I do my live lessons,
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it actually is recorded.
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And then later in the week,
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people can actually watch it when they have a bit more time.
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I do still really enjoy doing those Friday lessons,
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so I'm glad that people are able to enjoy them,
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and watch them.
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So what was I going to talk about today?
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I was gonna talk about
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for the first time in a very long time,
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I had a really long day at work.
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I mean, it was a normal length day,
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but in English when you say, ah, I had a really long day,
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it means that you had a really hard day.
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So I'm not sure why,
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I just had a lot of stuff to do today.
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I had to go to work early this morning,
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because I had a meeting.
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Maybe that was part of it.
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And it's not that I'm behind on my work,
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but I just had a lot of little things to do today,
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one after the other.
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And so the day kind of got away on me a little bit.
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When you say the day got away on you,
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it means that you didn't get all of the things done
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that you wanted to get done that day.
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I mean, I got most of the things done,
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but yeah, I'm just home, I'm exhausted.
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I need to have a little nap,
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just a little nap before supper.
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And then I think I'll be good again.
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Anyways, thanks for watching this little English lesson.
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I'll see you in a few days with another one.
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You can tell my brain's not going full speed, bye.
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