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

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Look at this. This is very dramatic.
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I've gone really, really all the way today with this
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fire words and phrases.
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You can see there is a blaze taking place underneath us.
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So we have something to keep us warm.
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What's actually actually, that's quite nice.
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That's that's nice and warm.
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That is. It's keeping me warm today. Isn't that lovely?
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So when we talk about words and phrases
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connected to fire, here is the first one.
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And Mr.
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Steve did give a small clue if you are on fire
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so this can be used figuratively to mean
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a person is doing something with a lot of energy
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or maybe they are doing it with a lot of skill.
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Maybe they are doing it really well.
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Maybe something is busy as Steve said.
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So you might say that the live chat today is on fire.
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There is a lot going on.
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Something is on fire.
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Here's another one, Steve, To be
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fired up. Yes.
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If you are fired up, it means you are excited to do something.
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You have lots of energy and enthusiasm.
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You are fired up.
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I'm ready to go.
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I can't wait to do today's livestream
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because I'm all fired up Here we go.
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Steve, this we all have one of these, an old flame
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who of course, when we talk about flame,
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we talk about the orange flicker of the fire
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itself, Flame and
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an old flame is a person
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you used to be romantically connected with. Yes.
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So maybe a person you used to date or you used to go out with,
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or maybe you had a relationship with them.
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A very close personal relationship.
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You were in love.
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But then I think it's yes, you decided to go your separate ways
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and that person is now your old flame.
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burned out.
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So this is one for Mr. Steve.
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You can explain this one burn out.
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That's when you work so hard.
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You're doing too much.
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You burn it.
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Well, there's another one burning the candle at both ends.
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If you go that way, I'll do this on first. Yes.
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That's when you. You burn out.
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You've worked so hard for so long, you've got it's too much adrenalin.
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And in order to keep going, in order to keep working, you have to miss sleep
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and you have to maybe drink too much coffee.
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You don't relax enough and eventually your body because it's had too much
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adrenalin and cortisol going through it, it gives up and you burn out.
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So you literally become totally drained of energy emotionally, physically,
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and you have to take a period of time off work to recover.
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You might even need some psychological help.
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It can also happen with being here on YouTube, being a YouTube
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publisher, you can sometimes burn yourself out.
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You run out of energy, you run out of ideas.
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That has never happened to me in my 17 years here on YouTube.
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Here's another one, Steve.
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Something will go up in flames
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to go up in flames.
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Now this also can be used
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literally, but also figuratively.
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If something goes up in flames, it means it catches fire.
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It is destroyed or consumed by fire.
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However, maybe you have a plan for your future.
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Maybe you have something that you really want to do in your life.
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But then you realise that there is no chance of it ever happening.
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You can say that your dreams or your ambition,
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they go up in flames or in smoke.
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You can say that as well come.
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My my plans have just gone up in smoke.
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Yeah. Will go up in flames.
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It means they've, they've been trashed, they've gone.
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You've got to start again.
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what about feel the heat.
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You feel the heat.
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So this also could be work related.
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Maybe you're in a situation or a position where perhaps there is a lot of pressure
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on you to do well or succeed.
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So you might say that you are feeling
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the heat, you are under some sort of tension
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or pressure quite often at work.
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Yes, Yes, you can.
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I think that's probably that's quite a American phrase, would you say?
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I think feeling the heat. I think you're feeling pressure.
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Yes. Yes.
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I think it's used more as well here.
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Stress due to maybe a lot of you've got a lot of things to do
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now this is a good well, it's not a good sentence,
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but it can be used in a negative way and a positive way
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to set the world on fire.
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So this might sound quite violent and destructive,
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but if a person sets the world on fire, we can also say
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something. it's gone back on there.
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That's good.
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That was close.
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So to set the world on fire, it means to do something that makes a big impression.
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Maybe a person has a lot of energy.
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It's very similar to the one earlier to be fired up.
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So to set the world on fire is to to be
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to be quite impressive.
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And you make changes that that are felt course
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it can also mean something negative maybe a person who wants to set the world on fire.
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Some people just want to destroy things because they're not happy.
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Maybe they just want to see destruction around them.
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So you could, I suppose, use that in different ways.
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But we often talk about setting the world on fire
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as being something that makes changes.
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ignite. I think this is a great word.
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I don't know why.
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When you say it ignite, it sounds dramatic
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and that's because it is because something will will start burning.
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You ignite something, as we saw earlier, to
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to light a fire, to start a fire,
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ignite comes from the word fire,
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to start something that is burning,
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to start a fire to produce the flames
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or to start the fire burning to ignite.
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So I suppose in a way you might ignite an idea.
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You can suddenly have an idea.
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Wow. Wow.
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Like a spark going off inside your brain.
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Suddenly you have a great idea.
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in Flame in Flame.
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So we can use this in many ways, can't we?
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We can, yes.
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So we can use it to to show how something is being affected.
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We can use it as the
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medical term
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for something that it has become infected
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or maybe something that has swollen and is painful.
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So in flame, you can also use it
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to show that something has been made worse as well.
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You might inflame a situation.
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You are making that thing worse deliberately.
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And finally, you will be pleased to hear.
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To have a burning ambition,
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to have ambition, something that is burning.
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And now we came.
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This is interesting, Steve, because this can also be medical, something that is burning.
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So it can be a sensation.
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Maybe if your hand is hot,
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you might say that it's burning,
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it's too hot, or maybe something
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that is very painful.
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But to have a burning ambition
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means something that you really want to do,
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maybe something that you have in your heart
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that you would really like to do very much.
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