Learn the English Phrases "to keep something under wraps" and "It's hush-hush!"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase to keep something under wraps.

Now, if you're told to keep something under wraps,

it means you're supposed to keep it a secret.

You're not supposed to tell anyone about it.

Maybe at work there's a new project that three people are

working on and someone tells you about it, but they say,

hey, you need to keep this under wraps for now.

We're not telling anyone else at work.

We're not telling any of our customers.

It's a secret project.

You need to keep it under wraps.

So that would mean that you need to keep it a secret.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is the phrase, it's hush hush.

Now, I did teach this phrase

about three or four years ago.

Maybe some of you saw that lesson, maybe

some of you haven't heard about this phrase

yet, but it means the same thing.

It means that something's a secret.

Let's say I'm planning a party for my mom and I

tell my sister, but I just say, hey, it's hush hush.

Don't tell any of mum's brothers and sisters yet

because we think it might be a secret party.

It's hush hush.

Don't tell anyone about it at this point in time.

So to review.

To keep something under wraps means

to keep it a secret.

And if you say that something is hush hush, if

you say it's hush hush, it means the same thing.

It means that you need to keep that thing a secret.

But, hey, let's look at a

comment from a previous video.

This comment is from a viewer.

There's no name on this comment.

And the comment is this.

Thank you very much, Bob.

Is it always cloudy like this where you live?

And by response, no, but it

has been quite cloudy lately.

Hopefully we get some sunnier weather soon

and we certainly have that today.

It is a beautiful day out here today.

It's nice and warm.

It's about 20 degrees celsius right now.

I don't know what that is in fahrenheit.

52, double it and add 40.

I don't know, 70.

You'll have to use an online converter.

I used to be able to do that in my head,

but for some reason it's slipped my mind right now.

But, yeah, it's a gorgeous day today.

I can actually hear my neighbor mowing his lawn.

If you hear kind of a lawnmower in the background,

you might have heard that or you might hear that.

So you might be noticing

I'm wearing something new today.

I don't often spend money, but I bought a Blue Jays hat.

The Toronto Blue Jays are the local baseball team here.

Canada just happens to have a

team in the American baseball League.

I guess it's the North American League.

Major League Baseball, it's called, and the Toronto Blue

Jays are the team that is in Toronto.

Jen and I went to see a few games last year.

It was a lot of fun.

Baseball is kind of a unique sport.

It's not like anything else in the world because

it moves a little more slowly than other sports.

It's kind of fun to watch a baseball game because

you can think for a bit, you can eat a

hot dog, you can kind of just enjoy the weather.

The times we went last year, we went twice.

The roof of the stadium was open, so we could

actually enjoy the weather and the sunshine as well.

So that was really nice. Yep.

I got a hat.

I have to wear it in my video so

I can write it off as a business expense.

Sorry, I'm just kidding about that.

But I probably will actually write it off as

a business expense now that I think about it.

So anyways, yes, beautiful weather here.

It's the third week of May.

It feels like summer today.

What a great feeling.

It's just so nice to be outside and enjoy

the weather and to notice, too, that the trees

are starting to get leaves on them.

That means I'll have shade to stand in when I

make my videos, so that's kind of nice as well.

But anyways, thanks for watching.

I hope you're having a good week and I'll see

you in a few days with another short English lesson.

Bye.