Learn the English Phrases "to have a reputation" and "your reputation precedes you"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase to have a reputation.

When you have a reputation, it

means that something about you.

One of your character traits is so

strong that people think about you when

they think about that character trait.

Let me try to explain this a little bit better.

I think I'm a nice teacher.

I think I have a reputation as being a nice teacher.

You'd have to ask my students to find out for sure.

But when people think of me, I hope that I

have a reputation of being very nice and kind.

You might know someone who's just really mean,

and they have a reputation of being mean.

So you might have someone in your neighborhood

who always yells from their front porch or

is never happy, and they have a reputation

of being kind of grouchy all the time.

So when you have a reputation, it

means that your strongest character trait is

something that is very obvious about you.

The other phrase I wanted to teach

you today is your reputation precedes you.

What this means is that you know something

about someone before you actually meet them.

If I was to meet the prime

minister of Canada, his reputation precedes him.

He seems to be a nice person, although right now some

people don't like him and we might be having an election

in a while and I'm not sure he'll get in again.

But I think his reputation is that

he's somewhat kind and nice to people.

We'll see if Canadians find their way into

the comments below and disagree with me.

But anyways, when your reputation precedes you, it

means that before you even meet someone, you

kind of know something about them.

So to review to have a reputation means

that you're known for a certain thing.

Maybe you're known as being

very athletic and very aggressive

when you play sports, you have a

reputation of being a good athlete.

And then your reputation precedes you.

Simply means that people know something

about you before you meet them.

If Wayne Gretzky came to play hockey

with me, his reputation precedes him.

I already know he's going to be

a better hockey player than me.

But hey, let's look at a comment from

a previous video, an extremely crumpled up comment.

The pockets in my shorts are very small, so the

comment gets crumpled. From Ruslan I guess teacher Bob had

no road rage because all drivers know if they mess

with teacher Bob, they will never pass the ielts test.

And then Judit or Aerosmith77 has a good laugh.

Ha ha ha.

And then my response is, my reputation precedes me.

So now you can see how I

come up with the ideas sometimes.

So, as I responded to Ruslan's comment.

Thanks, by the way, Ruslan, I had the

thought, oh, I should do a lesson on

the phrase my reputation precedes me.

Well, hey, we just got done getting a lot of rain.

I was going to use an inappropriate word there, but

maybe I should do a lesson someday on inappropriate words.

We just got a lot of rain.

In fact, we got, I think, two and a half inches.

If I spin you around, not sure you can see

all the way across the river, but there's water in

the field over there where there's normally not water.

Somehow the rain came endlessly.

So, as I mentioned, it was Hurricane Beryl.

We got the remnants of it.

So the last little bit.

So it rained most of the day yesterday.

It was kind of an interesting day.

At one point thought, I hope it stops raining soon.

When it started, I was happy because

it will make everything grow nicely.

But at a certain point, I was like, okay,

this is getting to be a little bit much.

A little bit too much.

You can use both phrases to indicate that.

And thankfully, after a bit, it did stop.

It kind of came in waves yesterday.

So it rained hard, and then it stopped raining,

and then it rained hard, and then it stopped.

So anyways, everything should grow like crazy

now for the next little bit. Thanks for watching.

I'll see you next week

with another short English lesson.

And have a good week. Bye.