Learn the English Phrases "to sink in" and "sink or swim"

In this English lesson, I want to try

and not freeze my butt off and also

teach you the English phrase to sink in.

When something is allowed to sink in, it means that

you hear it and eventually you will understand it.

Sometimes when you're in school, the teacher will teach

a lesson and it might take a while for

what the teacher taught you to sink in.

Sometimes you hear the teacher say it,

you go home and you do your

homework, and then eventually you understand it.

You've given it some time and it was able to sink in.

I hope that when you watch my lessons,

eventually what I'm teaching you will sink in.

Eventually you will understand it.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is the phrase sink or swim.

This means to either succeed or fail.

So sometimes students are doing badly in a class and

they have one more assignment to do and then it's

a time where they will either sink or swim.

So if you imagine this, when you

sink, it means you go underwater.

And when you swim you are above

the water and you can still breathe.

So we use this phrase to talk about somebody

or something that will either succeed or fail.

Sorry, I should say fail or succeed, shouldn't I?

When you sink, you fail.

When you succeed, you are swimming.

So sink or swim.

So to review, when you allow something to sink

in, it means you allow yourself to think about

it for a bit and then understand it.

And if you say a situation is

sink or swim, it means you are either

going to sink, fail, or swim and succeed.

But anyways, let's look at a

comment from a previous video.

This comment I think is from Vino.

Hey Bob, could you please teach me the

meaning of the phrase let that sink in?

And my reply, sure, and I kind of just did.

The let that sink in phrase though is more.

It means the same thing, but it's more

of a saying you would say to someone.

So you would say to them, let me think.

Let's say I got stopped for speeding and

the police officer said if you get one

more ticket you're going to lose your license.

Let that sink in.

Basically what the police officer is saying is think

about that for a bit and make sure you

understand completely why you shouldn't speed anymore.

But hey, I don't really speed a lot.

I did get a ticket almost exactly a year ago,

so I was bringing my son back to university and

of all places, I got a ticket in my local

town, which was a little bit disappointing.

It was the beginning of a four hour trip and I

got a ticket right at the beginning of the trip.

That was rather disappointing.

Needless to say, I was in a

bad mood for the entire trip.

You might be wondering why I'm

sticking close to the shed.

I'm gonna turn around here

because it's quite windy today.

I always think it's funny when there

are no leaves on the trees.

You really can't tell that it's a windy

day, but it's a little bit cold.

It's minus three and I don't know if

you've watched Jen's videos on her channel, but

she was just videotaping me videotaping this lesson.

I'm not sure why.

I think she wants to put a clip in her next video.

You'll have to go check that out.

Her channel is called @myflowerfarm.

If you put an @ sign and then type myflowerfarm with

no spaces in the search bar of YouTube, you'll find it.

Anyways, I was just telling Jen when you go outside

to make a video in the winter, it's always best

to dress warmer than you need to because you might

be out there for longer than you were expecting.

And that's certainly the case today.

I'm only wearing a T shirt under my winter coat.

I probably should have worn a sweatshirt as well.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy these little lessons.

I know most of you do because lots of you watch them.

So I'll see you in a few days with another one.

Have a good weekend. Bye.