Meaning of AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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2019-04-10 ・ Bob's Short English Lessons


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Meaning of AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

3,211 views ・ 2019-04-10

Bob's Short English Lessons


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So in English if we say something is an "accident waiting to happen" it means that we think
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that sometime in the near future something is going to go wrong with that thing.
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The best example I can give is: think about an old building that's starting to fall apart.
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You could describe that old building as an accident waiting to happen.
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Because you know at some point the building is going to fall down and we're just all waiting
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for that to happen.
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So you could describe it as an accident waiting to happen.
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We can also describe people this way.
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It's not a nice way to describe people, but you can say, "My cousin is an accident waiting
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to happen."
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You would use this to describe someone who, no matter what they do in life it doesn't
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seem to go well or whenever they try to do something it goes wrong.
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So you could say they're an accident waiting to happen.
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