10 more English words and phrases - PART 4 / Listen and learn English with Mr Duncan in England

After my previous lessons where I talked about words

that are often used in English, I thought, hmm,

because I had such a good response to it, I think I will do some more.

So here are ten more commonly used words

in English.

Oh, the first word is a very interesting one because it refers to a special time

that we all look forward to pay day.

The word payday refers to the day

or the time when we receive our wages,

the payment we receive for our hard work and labour.

Normally here in the UK we receive all payment

or pay day at the end of the month.

Some people are paid weekly and some people are paid monthly.

Quite often these days people will be paid

their salary at the end of the month.

Oh, there's another interesting word salary.

Did you know that the word salary comes from the term

that was used during Roman times?

The soldiers were paid a certain amount of money so they could buy soaked.

It's true.

The word salary literally means salt money.

Our next word

refers to something we all wish we had.

We all wish we could do.

Sometimes we think of a thing that happened in the past and we relive it.

Maybe we want to focus on certain parts of that past event.

We want to see what went wrong.

Maybe sometimes we wish we had done things differently.

And that is the word.

Hindsight.

The word hindsight means the action of looking

back to a certain moment.

You might say you are looking at something retrospectively

to look back at a situation.

And quite often you will try to work out

how you would have done it differently.

You look back in hindsight.

It is true... we all love going on holiday.

I know I do.

I love travelling.

They say that travelling broadens the mind.

A person who enjoys going off

and having fun and exploring different places

can be said to be gallivanting gallivant.

I love that word.

To travel or wander quite often in a leisurely way,

an enjoyable journey is being had.

You are gallivanting.

You are roaming around whilst having lots of fun.

It is a phrase that is often used in fact, in English.

When we want to say that we are in a comfortable situation

or in a comfortable position,

we can say that we are sitting pretty.

A person who is sitting pretty

is in a comfortable, advantageous position.

To be safe and secure

means you are sitting pretty.

There are many words in English that originate in French.

And here is one of them.

Chagrin. I love that word.

I love saying it.

I wish I could say it all day, but I don't have time, unfortunately.

Chagrin refers

as a noun to the feeling of annoyance and also as a verb.

To make someone annoyed,

you do something to irritate another person.

You make them feel upset and annoyed.

You observe their chagrin.

There are many people in this world who enjoy doing the next phrase... put down.

And when a person puts down another person,

they are humiliating them.

Quite often in front of other people they are criticising them.

Quite often unfairly, you are putting a person down

to humiliate or draw attention to someone's weaknesses or

failures is to put them down.

Here are two words for the price of one.

These two words have opposite meanings

and are used quite often in English.

In fact, you might say that they refer to the first word

that we looked at today.

Broke and loaded.

Both of those words refer to money.

First of all, to be broke means to have no money.

Maybe you have lost all your money.

Maybe you gambled your money away.

Perhaps you made a bad investment.

You are now broke.

You are penniless.

You have no money at all.

The next word is loaded.

So these words are sort of connected to each other.

But they are opposites.

To be loaded means you have lots of money.

You are wealthy. You are rich.

You have lots of disposable income.

You are loaded.

The next phrase is an acronym.

We don't often feature acronyms, but today

I thought, why not?

The acronym is FOMO.

F o. M o.

It is an acronym.

It is a slang term for the anxiety

of missing the chance to get something or to do something.

You fear missing out.

And that is what the acronym stands for.

The fear of missing out.

We often refer to it as FOMO, something other people

have, something that other people are doing that you want to do yourself.

You have to get in there very quick because you might

miss your chance.

Finally, we have our last phrase... polish off.

This is a very interesting phrase because it can be used in many ways, but in this situation,

Polish off refers to finishing or completing something

to take the final parts or pieces of something.

Maybe you polish off the cake that is left on the plate.

You finish the whole lot, you finish it

to complete or finish something you are creating

means you have polished it off.

You have finished that particular thing.

Just like my list of words...

I have finished for today.

I hope you've enjoyed today's words.

I hope they have been useful to you

and I will see you again very soon for some more.

And of course, some more English lessons.

This is Mr Duncan in England, saying Thank you very much for watching me.

And of course...

ta ta for now.