Learn the English Phrases TO GET DUMPED and DOWN IN THE DUMPS

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In this English lesson,
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I wanted to help you learn the English phrase
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to get dumped, or to dump someone.
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When you get dumped,
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it means you were in a relationship,
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and the person you were in a relationship with
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told you they didn't want to be with you anymore.
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So we would say that you got dumped.
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So when you get dumped,
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it means you probably get a phone call, or a text,
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or you're out with your significant other.
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That's the phrase we use
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to refer to a boyfriend or girlfriend.
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And they say to you,
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I don't want to go out with you anymore.
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When you get dumped,
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when you're in a relationship,
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and someone ends it, it's not a very nice feeling.
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You usually feel very, very sad,
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so I'm sure this has happened to everyone
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at some point in their life.
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It's not always nice to get dumped,
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but sometimes you might be the one who dumped someone else,
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and maybe that's good for you.
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I dunno.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase down in the dumps.
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Now, I did teach this phrase a couple of years ago,
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but I thought,
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since I always like to use similar words in my phrases,
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I will teach it again.
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After you get dumped, you might feel down in the dumps.
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When you are down in the dumps,
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it simply means that you are sad.
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So you might be sad after your team loses a game.
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You might be down in the dumps
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if your team makes it to the championship.
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I think that's the example
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I gave in my last lesson two years ago.
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Your team goes to the championship, and they lose,
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you might be down in the dumps for a few days.
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You might be very, very sad for a few days
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after that happens.
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So to review, when you get dumped,
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it means that you were in a relationship,
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and someone ended it.
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They said they didn't want to be with you anymore,
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and then because of that, you might be sad.
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You might be feeling down in the dumps.
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When you're down in the dumps,
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you just aren't having a good day.
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You're not happy.
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It's not a good thing.
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I'm not down in the dumps very often,
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but it does happen sometimes.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Andres.
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Mr. Bob,
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would you bank on the fact that there's no crocodile
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in the river?
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Julia Olis says, could this little fence
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be probably some sort of trap for crocodile.
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And my response, you can bank on it.
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It's far too cold here in Canada for them.
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In fact, there are no animals in the river
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that are dangerous to humans.
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What is dangerous on my farm for humans though,
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is the weather, it's getting rather cold out here.
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I'm actually hiding right now beside this wagon,
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because if you look behind me here,
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it's gonna get really bright.
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You can see the wind is blowing the trees quite a bit.
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If we look this way, maybe you can see it a little bit more.
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Let's go for a bit of a walk,
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and you can see some of the fall colors.
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So it's definitely fall here.
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It's definitely getting a little bit chillier.
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It's beautiful to see the leaves on my property
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on the trees are all starting to turn color.
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Let me flip this around again.
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And it's just a nice time,
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but I have to start thinking about
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what I'm going to wear each time I go outside,
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I'm gonna run over here by the wagon again,
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where I'm out of the wind.
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I'm wearing my jacket today, I didn't wear gloves.
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I'm just wearing one thin shirt underneath my jacket.
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And yeah, I'm starting to shiver actually,
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and I still have to talk for 30 seconds.
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Can I talk for 30 seconds without freezing my butt off?
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That's a little bit of informal slang for you.
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When it gets really cold,
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we sometimes say, oh, it's so cold outside.
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I froze my butt off.
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Your butt doesn't actually fall off.
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It's just kind of a silly phrase we use
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to talk about really, really cold weather.
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Anyways, I'm gonna end this one early.
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Thanks for watching.
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I hope that you learned a little bit of English,
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and I'll see you in a couple days
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with another short English lesson, bye.
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