Learn the English Phrases TO GET CARRIED AWAY and TO GET RILED UP

In this English lesson,

I wanted to teach you the English phrase

to get carried away.

When you get carried away with something,

it means you get so excited about it,

you don't actually think straight.

You start to do things you normally wouldn't do.

Probably the best example of the phrase to get carried away,

for me, would be when I go to the grocery store

when I'm hungry.

When I go to the grocery store when I'm hungry,

I sometimes get carried away and I buy too many cookies

and I buy too many candies and I buy too many chocolates.

I kind of lose control of what I would normally do.

Because I'm so hungry, everything I see looks really yummy

and I get a bit carried away.

Sometimes when I'm watching a sports game

and my team does really well, I jump up and cheer

and maybe I'll knock something over by accident

because I get carried away.

So when you get carried away,

it means you get super excited about something

to the point where you do things you normally wouldn't do.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase to get riled up.

Now this is similar to getting carried away,

but in a bad way, in an angry way.

Sometimes people get riled up.

That means that they are really, really angry

about something.

Right now, and I won't mention why,

there are a lot of people in the world really, really angry

about different things.

It's really easy to get riled up

when you are upset about something in life.

Maybe things aren't going well for you.

Maybe things in your life just aren't as nice

as they should be, and you're just getting riled up.

You're getting very, very angry about something.

This also happens with sports fans.

(laughs) Sometimes when there is a championship game

and the team that you love loses,

sometimes you might get riled up.

In fact, in some cities, people get really riled up

when their team loses.

They get really angry because their team has lost.

They get riled up.

So to review, when you get carried away,

to get carried away means

to be very excited about something,

where you kind of let the emotion of being excited

take over what you're doing.

And to get riled up would be similar, but it would mean

that you're letting anger take over your life.

You're so angry about something

that you're starting to do things you normally wouldn't do.

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

This comic, comment, it's not a comic.

That'd be cool if it was a comic, but this is a comment.

This comment, comment, is (chuckles) from Alex.

I love the birds singing in the background.

I do love the farm.

Bob, is it cloudy all day long like that in the video?

And my response was that day it was.

Today is a much nicer day.

I think we're in for some nice weather coming up.

Yeah, we're definitely in

for a nice stretch of weather, it looks like.

And thanks, Alex, for leaving that comment.

Not comic, comment. That was very nice of you.

Yeah. It looks like we're into a good stretch

of really nice weather, which I'm happy about

because it's just nice to be outside

when you're in a lockdown like this.

I'll tell you this.

Jen and I went out today to get some groceries,

and the world has a very different feel now

than it did a few months ago.

As you know, COVID cases in Ontario, Canada are pretty high.

So we went to the grocery store.

We had to wait in line before we could get into the store.

For every person that exited the store,

they would let one more person in.

In fact, most grocery stores here,

what they've done is there's only a certain number

of grocery carts available.

You might call them trolleys in British English.

So there's only a certain number of grocery carts available.

When one person comes out,

they clean and sanitize the grocery cart

and then they let one or two more people go in,

depending if you're with someone or not.

So, yeah, it was kind of strange.

Was one of the first times in a long time

we've had to wait in line to get into the grocery store.

It was a bit of an odd feeling.

It wasn't a long wait, but it was probably about 10 minutes.

We needed to wait before we could go to the grocery store.

So we might start getting our groceries late at night again.

That's what we did last time when things were like this.

Anyways, see you in a couple days.

with another short English lesson, bye.