Meaning of IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So I think we can all agree that the worst
thing that could happen is if the world ended.
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If all of the sudden the sun exploded or maybe
the planet stopped turning.
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It would be the end of the world.
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So that's the worst thing that could happen.
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But we have a saying in English, "It's not
the end of the world.", that we say to people
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when something bad happens to them and they're
kind of overreacting.
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A good example would be maybe you're giving
your children cookies and your daughter wanted
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two cookies and she only gets one cookie.
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And she's just screaming and yelling and crying
and she's really upset because she wanted
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two cookies and she can only have one.
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That would be a great time to say, "Hey, it's
not the end of the world!"
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