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

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase to go off on someone.

When you go off on someone, it means you get angry.

It means you're annoyed with them.

They've done something that has really, really

annoyed you, and then you are angry.

You might even be yelling.

Sometimes people have a really mean boss and

they're afraid to talk to their boss because

their boss might go off on them.

That's not a nice thing to do,

and you shouldn't ever do that.

I know when I was a kid, there was a teacher

at my school where students were afraid to talk to that

teacher because that teacher might go off on them.

That teacher had a tendency to go off on people.

That teacher would get really angry

and yell for the silliest reason.

So I don't do that.

I don't go off on people very often.

It's pretty rare for that to happen.

The second phrase I wanted to teach

you today is just to go off.

I didn't want you to be too confused.

An alarm clock can go off.

A timer can go off.

Maybe you're making something in the kitchen and

you set the timer for ten minutes.

When ten minutes is up, the timer will go off.

It simply means that it will start beeping.

When an alarm clock goes off, it starts beeping.

And then when a timer goes off, it starts

beeping to tell you that time is up.

So to review to go off on someone means to

get mad at them, to yell at them, to be

angry and to not be very nice to them.

And then to go off simply means for a device like an

alarm clock or a timer to start making a beeping sound.

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

This comment is from Know that.

And it says here, it's great that despite the

constant rain, you were able to complete the installation

of the new windows as planned and without any

major problems or delays and hopefully without any injuries,

Bob. How many windows did you replace?

All in one area, floor, or

in different parts of your house? Thank you, sir.

Have a wonderful day.

And my response, we replaced five windows and a door.

I'll show the door in the lesson today.

So, yes, we got some windows replaced.

The windows were 41 years old. So thanks

Know that for that comment. Let me show you

at least one window here, down in our basement.

Maybe you can see this.

There is a brand new window, all nicely

installed and ready to kind of help us

feel good during the coming winter months.

It will certainly be nice to have a

window that keeps the cold out, and then

that window was replaced a few years ago.

But we also have a new door, so

I'm very happy to have a new door.

This door was quite drafty.

I'm not sure if you know what drafty means, but

when something's drafty, it means it lets the cold air

in when you don't want cold air to come in.

So we have a new door here, and then we also

had several windows replaced in other parts of the house.

I bought this house from my parents, and the

windows we replaced were the original windows from when

the house was built in the early eighties.

They were quite rotten and they

were kind of falling apart.

So it's nice to see something new.

It was nice to have a little bit of money to

be able to afford to replace some of those windows.

We do have one window left to replace, but

yes, if you look down here again, you'll see

a really nice brand new basement window.

And over here, a second one.

And then a few other windows replaced

in other parts of the house.

So I'm just super happy.

Hopefully we save some money on

heat this winter as well.

Our house is very well built, but I, as I said, the

door was drafty and most of the windows were quite drafty.

So it's nice to have things sealed up again.

Anyways, thanks for watching this short English lesson.

I'll see you in a few days with another one. Bye.