Learn the English Phrases "to go off on someone" and "to go off"

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you
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learn the English phrase to go off on someone.
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When you go off on someone, it means you get angry.
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It means you're annoyed with them.
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They've done something that has really, really
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annoyed you, and then you are angry.
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You might even be yelling.
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Sometimes people have a really mean boss and
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they're afraid to talk to their boss because
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their boss might go off on them.
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That's not a nice thing to do,
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and you shouldn't ever do that.
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I know when I was a kid, there was a teacher
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at my school where students were afraid to talk to that
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teacher because that teacher might go off on them.
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That teacher had a tendency to go off on people.
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That teacher would get really angry
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and yell for the silliest reason.
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So I don't do that.
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I don't go off on people very often.
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It's pretty rare for that to happen.
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The second phrase I wanted to teach
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you today is just to go off.
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I didn't want you to be too confused.
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An alarm clock can go off.
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A timer can go off.
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Maybe you're making something in the kitchen and
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you set the timer for ten minutes.
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When ten minutes is up, the timer will go off.
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It simply means that it will start beeping.
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When an alarm clock goes off, it starts beeping.
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And then when a timer goes off, it starts
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beeping to tell you that time is up.
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So to review to go off on someone means to
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get mad at them, to yell at them, to be
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angry and to not be very nice to them.
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And then to go off simply means for a device like an
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alarm clock or a timer to start making a beeping sound.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Know that.
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And it says here, it's great that despite the
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constant rain, you were able to complete the installation
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of the new windows as planned and without any
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major problems or delays and hopefully without any injuries,
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Bob. How many windows did you replace?
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All in one area, floor, or
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in different parts of your house? Thank you, sir.
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Have a wonderful day.
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And my response, we replaced five windows and a door.
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I'll show the door in the lesson today.
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So, yes, we got some windows replaced.
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The windows were 41 years old. So thanks
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Know that for that comment. Let me show you
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at least one window here, down in our basement.
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Maybe you can see this.
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There is a brand new window, all nicely
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installed and ready to kind of help us
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feel good during the coming winter months.
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It will certainly be nice to have a
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window that keeps the cold out, and then
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that window was replaced a few years ago.
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But we also have a new door, so
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I'm very happy to have a new door.
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This door was quite drafty.
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I'm not sure if you know what drafty means, but
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when something's drafty, it means it lets the cold air
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in when you don't want cold air to come in.
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So we have a new door here, and then we also
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had several windows replaced in other parts of the house.
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I bought this house from my parents, and the
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windows we replaced were the original windows from when
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the house was built in the early eighties.
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They were quite rotten and they
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were kind of falling apart.
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So it's nice to see something new.
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It was nice to have a little bit of money to
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be able to afford to replace some of those windows.
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We do have one window left to replace, but
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yes, if you look down here again, you'll see
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a really nice brand new basement window.
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And over here, a second one.
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And then a few other windows replaced
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in other parts of the house.
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So I'm just super happy.
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Hopefully we save some money on
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heat this winter as well.
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Our house is very well built, but I, as I said, the
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door was drafty and most of the windows were quite drafty.
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So it's nice to have things sealed up again.
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Anyways, thanks for watching this short English lesson.
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I'll see you in a few days with another one. Bye.
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