Learn the English Phrases "Your guess is as good as mine!" and "I never would have guessed!"

In this English lesson I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase: Your guess is as good as mine.

This is something you say when you don't know the answer to something,

and the person you're talking to maybe knows the answer maybe doesn't either.

We ordered some stuff from Amazon yesterday and it said that the delivery

is supposed to come today, but honestly, your guess is as good as mine

whether that happens or not, I mean, it might come today.

Often when I order something from Amazon, it comes the next day

because we live relatively close to Toronto.

But whether it actually comes or not, your guess is as good as mine.

So when I use that phrase, I'm basically saying I don't really know if it will come today.

If you think it's going to come today, you might be right.

If you don't think it will come today, you might be right as well.

So anyways, your guess is as good as mine.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase I never would have guessed.

This is something you say when someone tells you something

and you didn't know that that was true.

If I said to you, I'm only 40 years old, you might look at me

and say, Well, I never would have guessed because you look much older.

Or if I said to you, I am 60 years old

and you think I look a lot younger, you might say, Oh, I never would have guessed.

You look so much younger than 60 years old.

So it's something you say when someone tells you something

and you didn't realize that that was true or that that was a fact.

So to review, Your guess is as good as mine!, is something you say when you don't know

whether something will happen and the person you're talking to probably doesn't either.

Whether or not it will rain this weekend.

Your guess is as good as mine.

I hope it does, though.

And if you say I never would have guessed,

it means that

there's a situation that you're: Oh, you didn't actually know that something was true.

If I was to say to you something like this,

this is Walter right down here.

He's huge now.

And you might say, Oh, I never would have guessed that he would have grown so fast.

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

This comment is from Andres Padrón.

There is a utility pole that has an electric transformer in front of your house.

Is that the only one...

Is that only for your property?

It was my first impression because I did not see many cables connected to the transformer.

My response? That is correct.

The high voltage comes in from the road and is converted for our house, shed and barn.

So, yes, very observant of you.

Andres, thanks for that comment.

If we look over here, first of all, we'll see this fun dog down here.

Say hi, Walter.

That's Walter kind of saying hi.

But if we keep walking, you'll see this pole over here.

Also, I don't know if you can tell,

but it's quite hazy in the distance.

The forest fires way up

in northern Ontario are actually causing it

to smell like smoke here, even though they're hundreds of kilometers away.

So right up there, there is a transformer.

I think a bird is building a nest in it.

And those cables there, those wires there go to the road.

That's where the hydro or electricity comes from.

And then this one

goes to our barn and it's also connected to our house.

So once again, very observant of you, Andres.

But yeah, I'm not sure.

I wasn't going to talk about this too much today because it went away earlier this afternoon.

But it's back. But it smells like smoke.

And you can kind of see smoke in the air and you can feel it a little bit when you breathe.

The forest fires, though, are hundreds of kilometers from here.

So it's surprising to me.

Who would have thought who would have guessed that...

that the...

you would be able to smell the forest fires so close to here?

So anyways, it's not that bad.

I'll see you in a couple of days with another short English lesson. Bye.