Meaning of UP TO NO GOOD - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So do you ever see a group of teenagers hanging out, maybe at the mall, maybe by the coffee
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shop, and you think they look like they're up to no good.
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A lot of times that's what older people think about teenagers.
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They think that sometimes teenagers are up to no good.
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When we say someone is up to no good in English it means that we think they are doing something
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wrong, or they are doing something bad, or maybe even something illegal.
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So I know as a high school teacher, because I work with teenagers all the time, sometimes
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people ask me, you know teenagers these days they're always up to no good, and I would
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have to disagree with that.
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I work with teenagers everyday and they're, they're really nice most of them and I think
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the world will be a fine place when the teenagers of today get older and start to run things.
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I don't think that all teenagers are up to no good.
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I think they're up to a lot of good.
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So if we use this in the past I would say, you know, "Those teenagers yesterday they
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were up to no good."
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I could say, "Those teenagers over there, they are up to no good."
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And if I was to talk in the future I would say you know, "Teenagers they're just going
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to be up to no good tomorrow, or those teenagers will be up to no good tomorrow if we leave
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them unsupervised."
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By the way, again, I, I don't think teenagers are all that bad.
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They're actually pretty good kids for the most part.
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