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

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you
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learn the English phrase to have a reputation.
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When you have a reputation, it
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means that something about you.
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One of your character traits is so
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strong that people think about you when
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they think about that character trait.
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Let me try to explain this a little bit better.
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I think I'm a nice teacher.
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I think I have a reputation as being a nice teacher.
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You'd have to ask my students to find out for sure.
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But when people think of me, I hope that I
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have a reputation of being very nice and kind.
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You might know someone who's just really mean,
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and they have a reputation of being mean.
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So you might have someone in your neighborhood
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who always yells from their front porch or
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is never happy, and they have a reputation
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of being kind of grouchy all the time.
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So when you have a reputation, it
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means that your strongest character trait is
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something that is very obvious about you.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach
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you today is your reputation precedes you.
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What this means is that you know something
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about someone before you actually meet them.
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If I was to meet the prime
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minister of Canada, his reputation precedes him.
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He seems to be a nice person, although right now some
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people don't like him and we might be having an election
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in a while and I'm not sure he'll get in again.
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But I think his reputation is that
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he's somewhat kind and nice to people.
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We'll see if Canadians find their way into
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the comments below and disagree with me.
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But anyways, when your reputation precedes you, it
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means that before you even meet someone, you
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kind of know something about them.
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So to review to have a reputation means
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that you're known for a certain thing.
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Maybe you're known as being
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very athletic and very aggressive
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when you play sports, you have a
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reputation of being a good athlete.
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And then your reputation precedes you.
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Simply means that people know something
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about you before you meet them.
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If Wayne Gretzky came to play hockey
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with me, his reputation precedes him.
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I already know he's going to be
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a better hockey player than me.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from
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a previous video, an extremely crumpled up comment.
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The pockets in my shorts are very small, so the
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comment gets crumpled. From Ruslan I guess teacher Bob had
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no road rage because all drivers know if they mess
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with teacher Bob, they will never pass the ielts test.
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And then Judit or Aerosmith77 has a good laugh.
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Ha ha ha.
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And then my response is, my reputation precedes me.
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So now you can see how I
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come up with the ideas sometimes.
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So, as I responded to Ruslan's comment.
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Thanks, by the way, Ruslan, I had the
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thought, oh, I should do a lesson on
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the phrase my reputation precedes me.
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Well, hey, we just got done getting a lot of rain.
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I was going to use an inappropriate word there, but
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maybe I should do a lesson someday on inappropriate words.
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We just got a lot of rain.
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In fact, we got, I think, two and a half inches.
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If I spin you around, not sure you can see
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all the way across the river, but there's water in
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the field over there where there's normally not water.
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Somehow the rain came endlessly.
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So, as I mentioned, it was Hurricane Beryl.
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We got the remnants of it.
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So the last little bit.
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So it rained most of the day yesterday.
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It was kind of an interesting day.
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At one point thought, I hope it stops raining soon.
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When it started, I was happy because
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it will make everything grow nicely.
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But at a certain point, I was like, okay,
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this is getting to be a little bit much.
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A little bit too much.
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You can use both phrases to indicate that.
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And thankfully, after a bit, it did stop.
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It kind of came in waves yesterday.
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So it rained hard, and then it stopped raining,
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and then it rained hard, and then it stopped.
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So anyways, everything should grow like crazy
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now for the next little bit. Thanks for watching.
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I'll see you next week
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with another short English lesson.
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And have a good week. Bye.
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