Learn the English Phrases CHIN UP and NOSE AROUND 👃 - A Short English Lesson with Subtitles

In this English lesson I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase, chin up.

Your chin is this part of your face,

I think that most of you know that,

but the chin is right here.

This is my chin, and when you say to someone,

hey, chin up, it means that you want them

to stop being sad or disappointed about something,

and start to be more positive or happy about it.

A great example would be if you ever played a sport,

and if something went wrong

while you were playing that sport.

Maybe you were playing football or soccer,

and you went and you tried to score a goal,

and you missed the net,

and you were very, very disappointed.

And when you walked to the bench,

you would walk with your head down

because you were disappointed.

Your coach might say to you,

hey, chin up, you're doing a great job out there.

Just because you didn't score a point

doesn't mean you should be sad.

So if you say to someone, keep your chin up,

or if you just say chin up,

it means that you want them to be happy

instead of being disappointed.

And I thought, since we were talking about the face,

I would teach you this phrase as well,

the phrase nose around.

So this is your nose, I think most of you know that as well.

In English, if someone is nosing around,

or if you say I'm going to nose around a bit,

it means you're going to look at something

kind of in a curious way, but kind of in a nosy way,

like maybe it's not any of your business.

Let me explain a little bit.

When we go to market, we sell flowers.

One time, there was another person

at market selling flowers,

so I went over to kinda nose around a little bit.

I went over to look at their flowers,

not because I wanted to buy them,

but because I wanted to see what they were growing,

and I wanted to see how much they were charging.

So I went over to their booth.

I went over to their stall to nose around a little bit.

So to review, when you say chin up,

it means you want someone to be

a little more happy or positive,

and when you nose around,

it's kind of when you go look at something

in a way where you just want to see what someone has.

It's when you're nosy.

Let's look at a comment though, from the other day.

This comment, I just loved this comment.

This is from Roya Soukhtezar.

I hope I said your name correctly.

And Roya says, learning to pick your battles

is half the battle.

And my response was, yes,

great way to combine both phrases, very well done.

So this was from the lesson

where I taught the English phrase, half the battle,

and pick your battles, or choose your battles.

And I just thought, Roya,

what an excellent way to use both phrases.

Learning to pick your battles is half the battle.

Hopefully you understand what Roya is saying there,

but Roya, excellent work.

I just loved that response to that lesson, good job.

By the way, leave a comment below.

I try to choose a comment, usually from members first

and then from everyone else, but if you leave a comment,

I might use it in the next video.

Anyways, I know for you it's Monday morning,

and you're watching this.

This is the part of the video where I start talking faster.

I know it's Monday morning for all of you

when you are watching this, or Monday afternoon,

but for me it's still the weekend.

It's a nice, beautiful Saturday afternoon here.

And it reminded me about when I was a kid,

because I grew up on this farm,

the weekend wasn't a time for relaxing.

The weekend was actually the same

as every other day of the week.

When you grow up on a farm,

you do the same work on Tuesday as you do on a Saturday.

We had cows, we had to milk the cows twice a day.

So whether it was Sunday morning, Wednesday morning,

Thursday morning, every day was the same.

But now I have a little bit of a weekend

as we don't have those kinds of animals in the barn anymore.

So that's really, really nice,

but I hope all of you are having a great weekend,

or had a great weekend.

Sorry, I know that this is Monday for you.

I hope you had a great weekend.

Bob the Canadian here.

Thanks for watching this little English lesson.