Learn English Phrases using the word FIRE - (SUPERCUT EDIT)

Look at this. This is very dramatic.

I've gone really, really all the way today with this

fire words and phrases.

You can see there is a blaze taking place underneath us.

So we have something to keep us warm.

What's actually actually, that's quite nice.

That's that's nice and warm.

That is. It's keeping me warm today. Isn't that lovely?

So when we talk about words and phrases

connected to fire, here is the first one.

And Mr.

Steve did give a small clue if you are on fire

so this can be used figuratively to mean

a person is doing something with a lot of energy

or maybe they are doing it with a lot of skill.

Maybe they are doing it really well.

Maybe something is busy as Steve said.

So you might say that the live chat today is on fire.

There is a lot going on.

Something is on fire.

Here's another one, Steve, To be

fired up. Yes.

If you are fired up, it means you are excited to do something.

You have lots of energy and enthusiasm.

You are fired up.

I'm ready to go.

I can't wait to do today's livestream

because I'm all fired up Here we go.

Steve, this we all have one of these, an old flame

who of course, when we talk about flame,

we talk about the orange flicker of the fire

itself, Flame and

an old flame is a person

you used to be romantically connected with. Yes.

So maybe a person you used to date or you used to go out with,

or maybe you had a relationship with them.

A very close personal relationship.

You were in love.

But then I think it's yes, you decided to go your separate ways

and that person is now your old flame.

burned out.

So this is one for Mr. Steve.

You can explain this one burn out.

That's when you work so hard.

You're doing too much.

You burn it.

Well, there's another one burning the candle at both ends.

If you go that way, I'll do this on first. Yes.

That's when you. You burn out.

You've worked so hard for so long, you've got it's too much adrenalin.

And in order to keep going, in order to keep working, you have to miss sleep

and you have to maybe drink too much coffee.

You don't relax enough and eventually your body because it's had too much

adrenalin and cortisol going through it, it gives up and you burn out.

So you literally become totally drained of energy emotionally, physically,

and you have to take a period of time off work to recover.

You might even need some psychological help.

It can also happen with being here on YouTube, being a YouTube

publisher, you can sometimes burn yourself out.

You run out of energy, you run out of ideas.

That has never happened to me in my 17 years here on YouTube.

Here's another one, Steve.

Something will go up in flames

to go up in flames.

Now this also can be used

literally, but also figuratively.

If something goes up in flames, it means it catches fire.

It is destroyed or consumed by fire.

However, maybe you have a plan for your future.

Maybe you have something that you really want to do in your life.

But then you realise that there is no chance of it ever happening.

You can say that your dreams or your ambition,

they go up in flames or in smoke.

You can say that as well come.

My my plans have just gone up in smoke.

Yeah. Will go up in flames.

It means they've, they've been trashed, they've gone.

You've got to start again.

what about feel the heat.

You feel the heat.

So this also could be work related.

Maybe you're in a situation or a position where perhaps there is a lot of pressure

on you to do well or succeed.

So you might say that you are feeling

the heat, you are under some sort of tension

or pressure quite often at work.

Yes, Yes, you can.

I think that's probably that's quite a American phrase, would you say?

I think feeling the heat. I think you're feeling pressure.

Yes. Yes.

I think it's used more as well here.

Stress due to maybe a lot of you've got a lot of things to do

now this is a good well, it's not a good sentence,

but it can be used in a negative way and a positive way

to set the world on fire.

So this might sound quite violent and destructive,

but if a person sets the world on fire, we can also say

something. it's gone back on there.

That's good.

That was close.

So to set the world on fire, it means to do something that makes a big impression.

Maybe a person has a lot of energy.

It's very similar to the one earlier to be fired up.

So to set the world on fire is to to be

to be quite impressive.

And you make changes that that are felt course

it can also mean something negative maybe a person who wants to set the world on fire.

Some people just want to destroy things because they're not happy.

Maybe they just want to see destruction around them.

So you could, I suppose, use that in different ways.

But we often talk about setting the world on fire

as being something that makes changes.

ignite. I think this is a great word.

I don't know why.

When you say it ignite, it sounds dramatic

and that's because it is because something will will start burning.

You ignite something, as we saw earlier, to

to light a fire, to start a fire,

ignite comes from the word fire,

to start something that is burning,

to start a fire to produce the flames

or to start the fire burning to ignite.

So I suppose in a way you might ignite an idea.

You can suddenly have an idea.

Wow. Wow.

Like a spark going off inside your brain.

Suddenly you have a great idea.

in Flame in Flame.

So we can use this in many ways, can't we?

We can, yes.

So we can use it to to show how something is being affected.

We can use it as the

medical term

for something that it has become infected

or maybe something that has swollen and is painful.

So in flame, you can also use it

to show that something has been made worse as well.

You might inflame a situation.

You are making that thing worse deliberately.

And finally, you will be pleased to hear.

To have a burning ambition,

to have ambition, something that is burning.

And now we came.

This is interesting, Steve, because this can also be medical, something that is burning.

So it can be a sensation.

Maybe if your hand is hot,

you might say that it's burning,

it's too hot, or maybe something

that is very painful.

But to have a burning ambition

means something that you really want to do,

maybe something that you have in your heart

that you would really like to do very much.