Meaning of RUNNING ON EMPTY - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So it's been a bit of a long day and I'm kind
of running on empty.
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When you're running on empty it means that
you're still doing stuff and you're still
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working but you don't have a lot of energy
to do it.
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So you say that you're running on empty.
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The phrase comes from when a vehicle is running
on empty.
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That would mean that a vehicle like this van
behind me has very little gas in it and so
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we would say that the vehicle is running on
empty.
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So today was a fairly long day.
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I'm quite tired.
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I almost forgot to make a video but I'm still
plugging away.
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I'm still working away getting things done
even though I'm running on empty just a little
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bit.
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I hope that you guys aren't running on empty
when it comes to learning English.
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I hope you have lots of energy to study every
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Have a good day.
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