Learn the English Phrases "to hit the spot" and "in a tight spot"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase to hit the spot.

Sometimes you are craving something.

Sometimes you really want something to eat or to drink.

And then after you eat or drink it,

you say, oh, that hit the spot.

When something hits the spot,

it means it satisfies you.

For me, right now, this is kind of a bad thing.

I've become a little bit addicted to diet soda.

I know it's not good for me, and

I know it has strange ingredients in it

instead of soda or instead of sugar, but

I find when I drink a diet ginger ale or

a diet root beer, it tends to hit the spot.

I feel very satisfied.

Jen doesn't like it, though.

She doesn't like artificial sweeteners.

So I only have one a week.

But right now it's really seeming

to hit the spot for me.

I really, really enjoy it.

The other phrase I wanted to teach

you today is a tight spot.

When you are in a tight spot, I should have put

the word in there because you're often in a tight spot.

It means you're in a difficult situation.

Let's say that I'm trying to think of an example here.

You borrowed someone's car and you put a dent in it.

You're kind of in a tight spot because now you have

to tell them that you did something to their car.

Let's say that you owe someone a thousand dollars

and you also have to pay all of your

bills and you're not going to have enough money.

You are then in a tight spot.

So you're in a difficult situation.

So to review to hit the

spot means something is very satisfying.

When I have a chocolate bar, it

really tends to hit the spot.

And then when you are in a tight spot,

you are in a very, very difficult situation.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

This comment is from Rosario and the comment is: Great

Bob.

Sometimes I like to push it too

far and I eventually get in trouble.

And my response, it happens to us all.

I think we all, at some point in our

lives, push it a little bit too far.

We work a little too hard, we

stay up a little bit too late.

We maybe should rest and we don't.

Maybe we work over the weekend.

We push it too far and then you

get into a little bit of trouble.

Maybe you get sick, maybe you're just exhausted.

For me, when I push it too far, it

often results in me taking a sick day. So it's like,

it's kind of counterproductive.

But hey, someone asked, I think in a previous

video whether my town had Christmas decorations up yet.

There's some in this window.

You can see there.

That's not the town though.

And if you look across the street.

Let's walk this way.

I think you'll get a better look if I go this way.

I think they look much better at night.

I think there are these really tiny, small snowflakes.

If you look up on this pole

up by the green light there.

And then if you look at the other side of the

road, I bet you you guys can hardly see them.

Let me flip around.

I bet you you guys can hardly see them.

But I'll get as close as I can and then

you'll be able to get a better sense. Again,

I think they look much better at night.

You can see right here there is a bit of a snowflake.

There's a little chicken below it too.

Because this town is known for

having a of poultry farms around.

In fact, we used to have...

I'll walk backwards here.

We used to have a festival

called Poultry Fest in this town.

We don't anymore.

It used to happen every year in June.

It was pretty fun, but I think

they were having trouble getting organizers and

so eventually we didn't have it anymore.

So yes, there are some Christmas decorations up.

Not a lot, but enough for it

to feel festive at least at night.

Hey, thanks for watching this English lesson.

I'll see you in a couple days with another one. Bye.