Learn the English Phrases "a regular haunt" and "to come back to haunt"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English phrase a regular haunt.

So, haunt is a word we use to talk about ghosts.

Like, ghosts can haunt a building, but when you

say something was your regular haunt, it means it's

a place you used to go to a lot.

So this used to be my regular haunt.

25 years ago, I played soccer.

I didn't play a lot of soccer, but I played on

a soccer team, and this was one of my regular haunts.

That simply means it was a place where

a couple of nights a week, you could

find me here, either, practicing my soccer skills.

I played defense when I played soccer.

I'm making it sound like I played

all these sports when I was younger.

I didn't play a lot, but I did certainly

play on a soccer team when I was....

I think I was 30.

It's when I started to feel old.

But this soccer field here was one of my

regular haunts, a place where I could be found.

When you say to come back to haunt, we use

this phrase to talk about something you did in the

past that might bother you in the future.

A good example would be this.

When I played soccer, I ran really hard, I played

defense, and I was always trying to stop the person.

And I think now it's come back to haunt me

a bit because my knees and ankles get sore sometimes.

So things that I may have injured in the past

have now come back to haunt me a little bit.

Not in a major way.

I do know, though, that I used to go tobogganing

a lot, and I think from jumping over little snow

ramps with my toboggan, it hurt my back a bit.

And I think that's going to

come back to haunt me someday.

It's basically something that you did in the past

that might negatively affect you in the future.

So a regular haunt is a place where you go a lot.

Maybe there's a restaurant that you go to every

Friday, and it's one of your regular haunts.

And when something comes back to haunt you, it

means that it's something you did in the past

that may affect you negatively in the future.

I'm just going to move a little

bit before we look at a comment.

I'm going to try and get out of the wind.

I hope the microphone's working pretty good.

I'm going to stand by this sign.

I don't know if that will help. We'll see.

It might be worse. Who knows?

Anyways, this comment is from an anonymous user.

I hope you don't forget your tripod.

After this short lesson.

And I replied, thankfully, it was

still there when I got back.

Someday I think someone will swipe it.

That's another word for steal, by the way.

But little do they know it's a bit broken,

and only I know the little

tricks to make it work right.

So, yeah, that's from the last video.

I was in town and I just kind of walked away, right?

And as I'm doing right now, I just

randomly leave my tripod somewhere as I walk

away and talk a little bit to you.

So maybe someday someone will swipe it,

but it is a little bit finicky.

That's a word we use for it.

Oh, I'm going the wrong way.

I was going to show you something else.

Well, we'll go this way and I'll show you.

It's like a $30 tripod.

It was a super cheap tripod, and if you don't

quite know how to use it, it doesn't work properly.

But I kind of know how to turn certain

things so they click right and stuff like that.

Anyways, I was going to show you this.

This is the lock that keeps the park.

That's a nice sound, I guess... that

keeps the park closed in the winter.

So our parks, especially our parks that have a

lot of grass and soccer fields, they're usually locked

in the winter because you can damage the soccer

fields if you run on them or play on

them when they're... like when they're frozen, it's okay.

But you don't want to be on soccer fields too early

when the grass is a little bit soft, when the ground

is a little bit soft, because you can damage it.

You can put all little holes and

divots and stuff like that in it.

So generally, a park like this is locked up

until about May 1, middle of May, sometime in

there, they'll open it back up again.

You can still come to the park and play on

the toys if you're a kid and you don't mind

the cold, but usually the sporting fields are closed.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

See you next week with another short lesson.

Bye.

I'm.