Learn the English Phrases TUCKERED OUT and BENT OUT OF SHAPE

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase tuckered out.

Tuckered out is just another way of saying

that someone is really, really tired,

or saying that they are exhausted.

We used to use this phrase a lot when our kids were little.

At the end of the day,

if we let's say visited their grandpa and grandma,

at the end of the day, the kids would be tuckered out.

It just means that they were really, really tired.

Sometimes we do use it to talk about adults, too, though.

When Jen and I work on the farm,

at the end of a long day on the farm,

sometimes I'm tuckered out,

especially if I did a lot of manual labor.

If I did a lot of physical labor,

like shoveling or forking stuff,

at the end of the day, I'm usually quite tuckered out.

I'm usually quite exhausted, and I'm usually quite tired.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase bent out of shape.

Now, if I move a little bit,

I'm not sure how well you can see it.

You'll see that that tire is not straight.

It is bent out of shape.

So literally, when you say something is bent out of shape,

it means it's bent,

but we also use this to describe people.

You could say, if someone you know got angry,

you could say, "Ah, he got all bent outta shape about it.

I borrowed his car, I brought it back,

and I didn't put gas in the tank,

and he just got bent out of shape."

Just means that that person got angry.

That person was just annoyed, and not very happy with you.

So to review, when someone is tuckered out,

it just means that they're really tired.

You can even use this word to talk about pets.

Sometimes Oscar runs around all day,

and then he's tuckered out at the end of the day.

And when you say something is bent out of shape,

it could be something

like a piece of equipment or machinery,

but it could also be a person.

You could say that that person got really angry.

They got bent out of shape.

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

This comment is from Silvia, and the comment is,

"Thanks for the class.

I want to know if the following sentences are correct.

I ran out of milk.

I'm out of milk,

and the milk ran out.

I'm a bit confused how to use the phrasal verb run out."

And then gotyk1 says, "All of them are correct."

And then my response.

"All are correct.

The first two are the most natural way to say it."

So yeah, they're all correct,

but I would definitely say the first two,

you know, I ran out of milk.

Oh, I just forgot what it actually said.

I'm out of milk, and I ran out of milk.

Those would be the two most correct ways to say it

in my opinion, as an English speaker.

I know I've taken you out here to see the field a few times.

I'm just gonna kind of pan

and let you have a look behind me.

I am eagerly waiting for things to turn green.

Right now, we are just starting to see a touch of green.

You can see that the grass is greening up a little bit,

we would say.

So we're starting to see

just a little bit of green here and there,

and that is really, really cool. (chuckles)

I guess I would say I'm quite eager for spring to arrive.

All of the sudden today, I started thinking that.

I'm quite eager for spring to arrive.

Jen and I also put this bed out here.

This bed is filled with bulbs,

and I think it's filled with tulips.

I don't see anything coming up yet, though.

It's a little bit early for that.

We'll probably start to see the tulips

in about a month, actually.

As I pointed out in my other videos,

the first things to come up are usually the daffodils.

There's a couple other small things

that pop up earlier than that,

but right now, winter's definitely over.

Did I just jinx it?

When you jinx something,

you say it's over and then it happens again,

or you say it won't happen.

We'll see.

Maybe next week I'll be blowing snow out of my driveway

with a snowblower.

Who knows?

See you then. Bye.