Meaning of TO HAVE A KICK TO IT and JUST FOR KICKS - A Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So the other day I made some chili.
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Chili is kind of a mixture of
meat, and beans, and tomatoes,
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and peppers and I put in some hot sauce,
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and I might have put in a
little too much hot sauce,
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because the chili had a real kick to it.
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In English, when you use the
phrase to have a kick to it,
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you're usually talking about hot food,
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and you're usually talking about food
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that is a little too spicy.
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So when you take a bite,
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either it is really hot right away,
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or after you chew your food and swallow it
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and wait a little bit,
all of the sudden you
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can just feel a lot of heat in your mouth,
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because the food has a lot of kick to it.
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So in English, when you say
that something has a kick to it
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or that you say that something
has a lot of kick to it,
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what you are saying is that it
is super hot and super spicy
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and makes your mouth
burn just a little bit.
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The other phrase with kick in it,
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sorry, I'm a little, I'm thinking
slowly a little bit today.
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Usually these go a little quicker,
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but it's been a long week.
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But the other thing I
was going to talk about
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is another phrase with
the word kick in it,
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and that's to do something for kicks.
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When you do something for kicks
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or when you do something just for kicks,
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it means you do it because you get a lot
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of enjoyment out of it.
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Some people who play musical
instruments are in a band,
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and they're in a band just for kicks.
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They don't do it to make money.
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They don't go and perform
and get paid on the weekends,
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but they might be in
a band just for kicks.
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They might be in a band for kicks,
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because they just like playing music
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with other people for other people.
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So when something has a kick to it,
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it means it's hot and spicy,
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and when you do something just for kicks,
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it means you're doing
it just because it's fun
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and because you enjoy it.
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Anyways, Bob the Canadian here.
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It's Friday, I'm going
to wrap this video up,
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and I'll see you in the
next video on Monday.
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Have a good weekend.
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