Learn the English Phrases "all the rage" and "road rage"

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help
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you learn the English phrase all the rage.
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When something is all the rage, it means everyone
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is doing it or everyone is wearing it.
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In my world, people who are my age,
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it's all the rage to wear dad shoes.
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I'll put a picture here of what dad
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shoes look like, but they're all the rage.
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But something funny happened because now those
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shoes are also popular with young people.
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So it's all the rage to wear New Balance shoes.
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But it used to be a white pair of New
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Balance shoes was considered a pair of dad shoes, and
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they were all the rage for people my age, but
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now they are for younger people, too.
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So when something's all the
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rage, it's very, very popular.
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And then the term road rage.
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I didn't experience any road rage on
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my way home from visiting Brent.
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I was on the highway for about ten or 11 hours.
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It was quite a long drive and no one got angry with me.
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Road rage is when you cut someone off or when
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you do something to make another driver angry.
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And then that anger that they
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experience we call road rage.
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So I myself did not get angry at
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anyone, nor did anyone get angry at me.
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So there was no road rage on my trip.
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So to review when something's all the
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rage, it means it's very, very popular.
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And then let me think of
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something else that's all the rage.
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I imagine when they invented sunglasses many, many
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years ago, they were all the rage.
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I imagine everyone was wearing sunglasses
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the year they were invented.
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And then road rage would simply be anger
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that is taking place while you're driving.
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Usually someone gets angry with you
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and you call it road rage.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Tammy.
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Tammy says you both look like twin brothers.
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Have a safe trip all the way to Canada.
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Please take a coffee break if you like.
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Thank you both for this new video. And my response:
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I stopped multiple times on the way back.
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I left really early, but as the day went
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on, I found I needed breaks more often.
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I still made good time, though, and was able
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to return the car rental before 05:00 p.m.
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that day.
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So, Tammy, thanks for that comment.
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And yes, I did take breaks, quite a few breaks.
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So I started.
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For those of you that don't know, I was
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visiting Brent and I left at 05:00 a.m.
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last week, Friday.
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And I actually drove for some pretty long stretches.
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I drove from five till eight without stopping.
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Then I drove from eight till about noon, 1130 noon.
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Two really long stretches.
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But after that I started to get a little bit,
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not drowsy, but I just got physically tired.
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Like between you and me, I'll just tell you, my butt
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was getting sore from sitting in the car for so long.
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So I started to stop like every
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hour or even less than every hour.
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So I think I stopped at every
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single rest stop in New York.
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Well, no, I think every other. Okay.
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And I didn't always buy anything.
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And usually I just walked.
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I probably looked kind of funny.
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I was the guy doing loops at the rest stop.
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But hey, it's really good to be home.
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It was nice too, because like I said, I
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was able to return the rental car and I
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saved myself $30 by bringing it back the same
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day I drove home instead of the next morning.
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So that was kind of nice.
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And what else was I going to say?
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I was really tired the next day.
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It surprised me how simply sitting in a car
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and really doing nothing can be quite tiring.
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So last week, let me get this
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all straight, the days in my head.
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Last week, Saturday, I didn't do much.
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I was pretty lazy.
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I just kind of...
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I did go for a walk to kind of loosen up my legs again.
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But yeah, it was a good drive back
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and I had a lot of fun.
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So thanks again, Brent, if you're
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watching this for having me.
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And I'll see all of you in a
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few days with another short English lesson. Bye.
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