7 Advanced Phrases That Will Impress Native English Speakers 2

Hi there, I'm Drew Badger, the world's number

one English Fluency Guide and in this

video we're going to cover seven more

advanced phrases that every English

learners should know i received a lot of

great feedback from learners on the

previous video talking about advanced

phrases that can impress native speakers

and so I thought I would give you even

more

let's begin the first one is to get

screwed to get screwed you can think

about this in a more figurative sense of

you being turned around or being

controlled by someone else but it's a

negative meaning for some unfortunate

thing happening to you or typically it's

something where someone else's abusing

you in some way you could be cheated by

someone maybe someone took your money

like you're buying a new car and they

say the prices $200 but the price is

really $20,000 so they're screwing you

over there screwing you over

I really got screwed when I was buying

my new car they really took advantage of

me now this is not a very polite

expression but you will hear a lot in

movies and everyday conversations when

people are wanting to describe in a more

conversational way getting tricked or

maybe someone doing something negative

or awful to you to get screwed to get

screwed next to give it a shot to give

it a shot

now if someone asks you if you like to

try a particular activity like skiing or

skydiving or something like that you can

tell them yes I'd like to try that thing

or you can say i'd like to give it a

shot give it a shot and this just means

again that you want to try something but

it's in a more negative in conversation

away

listen carefully to how this plans give

it a shot

gear vid shot give it a shot

I'd like to give it a shot yeah i'll

give it a shot I'll give it a shot

next there's nothing to it there's

nothing to it

listen carefully as I say this faster

how it blends there's nothing to it

there's nothing to it there's nothing to

it there's nothing to it is the

conversational way of saying that

something is easy

this is another great idiom you can use

when you're trying to explain someone

how to do something or you're trying to

reassure them that something is actually

quite easy so maybe you're teaching a

friend of yours how to do some like a

flip so you want him to flip over or

kick a ball or do something that's maybe

not that

difficult so you're telling hey it's

quite easy there's nothing to it there's

nothing to it so nothing to something

else just means nothing is required in

order to do it as another example a

friend of mine might say hey you're

really good at baking and I say oh well

there's nothing to it you just follow

the recipe

there's nothing to it there's nothing to

it next to be in hot water to be in hot

water

listen carefully again to how this blend

hot water

we've got the tea there but the t almost

disappears and we just put a space

they're hot water hot water to be in hot

water means to be in trouble if you

think about yourself actually like a

person sitting in a large pot of boiling

water that could be a lot of trouble

it's really hot and you know it really

means you're in a bad situation but it's

just a more native way of expressing

this so if you're in a situation where

maybe it's not too serious like you just

lost a million dollars for some company

or something like that you're in a

situation where maybe it's like you got

some lower grades at school you gotta

see instead of a bee or something that

maybe it's not too serious again but

you're a little bit worried about you

can probably get in some kind of trouble

for that

so I'm in hot water because i forgot my

wife's birthday or I'm in hot water

because I got bad grades at school next

to read between the lines to read

between the lines if you think about

reading the book we've got lines of text

on the page and if you're trying to get

the idea of something maybe the actual

words don't say something but if you

read between the lines it means you're

trying to understand what's really being

communicated even if that's not the

words being spoken so it's kind of like

an idiom really so if you think about

the actual words the idiom to kick the

bucket just means to die but if you're

kind of reading between the lines you're

trying to understand what the actual

meaning of those words is not the actual

words they're being used so maybe I'm

reading between the lines friend of mine

is trying to say hey like we probably

shouldn't go to that party tonight but

he's telling me this in front of another

friend of ours who's kind of using it as

a code so that my friend is using this

as a code we probably don't want to go

to the party tonight but I'm trying to

read between the lines and under

and what he's actually saying so if i

read between the lines what he's saying

is well he he like really doesn't want

to go to the party because i like his

ex-girlfriend will be there but he's

trying to create an excuse and he

doesn't want to say that directly or in

front of other people so he wants me to

read between the lines so often the

communication we get from other people

we have to listen to more than just the

words being spoken we have to also

understand maybe if there's a hidden

meaning as well so whether this is an

actual thing that's written down when

people are in conversations you have to

read between the lines

read between the lines next you can say

that again when you hear someone say

something and you really agree with that

you can say yeah that's correct or I

agree with that but in a more

conversational way you can say you can

say that again

so if i'm outside and its really hot I'm

sweating off just like had some exercise

and it's really hot in a friend of mine

says wow it's really hot out here I

could say yeah you're correct or I just

sound like a more native speaker and I

say you could say that again or you can

say that again

you can say that again listen how can

becomes king when we shorten it

you can say that again you can say that

again and the final one and this is even

more advanced and I'm including it

because i had a great conversation

recently with a russian teacher who

knows actually quite a lot of

conversational English but didn't know a

couple of the things in the previous

video so i was using this and she also

didn't know this expression either so i

thought i would share with you here and

this is to have something on the back

burner if you think about when you're

cooking you have a couple of different

burners on your stove usually four of

them you have maybe two in the back into

in the front and if you're a

professional chef maybe you will have

some high heat on the front burner so

you're actually cooking something but

you will leave something on the back

burner just to cook and maybe to stay

warm because you're going to use it

later

so from that physical idea we get the

more figurative idea of keeping

something just keeping it prepared for

later use

so right now maybe I have a couple of

different business ideas i'm working on

one but I have a few ideas on the back

burner so this just means that i'll

probably end up using them in the future

or maybe not but they're just kind of

prepared and ready if i decide to use

them to keep something on the back

burner to keep something on the back

burner

well that's the end of this video if

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