Meaning of IF IT'S NOT ONE THING, IT'S ANOTHER - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So we have this saying in English, "If it's
not one thing, it's another.", and we use
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this when things are going wrong and things
keep going wrong.
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So maybe you solve one problem but then another
problem arises.
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So we would say, "If it's not one thing, it's
another!", referring to the fact that if one
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thing going wrong or one thing going bad wasn't
enough, there will be another thing that will
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go bad shortly.
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And normally I'm a pretty positive person
but I just had a couple days where, "If it's
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not one thing, it's another.", would be a
very, very good way to describe it.
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On the farm we were trying to get hay made
in our fields and different pieces of equipment
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kept breaking and even this morning when we
were picking up the hay bales we broke our
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wagon.
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It was old anyways, but if it's not one thing
it's another!
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