Advanced Phrasal Verbs "Grapple With" and "Wind Up Doing" - EnglishAnyone Clips

would you explain the meaning of find himself  grappling with one problem all right so to Grapple  

with if you think about two wrestlers grappling  comes with like that's this physical idea of of  

you like connected with someone and like rolling  on the ground and you're fighting with a person so  

it's it's different from like standing and boxing  like this you're connected you're kind of hugging  

or holding that person you have them in a hold of  some kind so that's grappling all right so when  

we grapple with a problem it's like just like two  wrestlers are grappling with each other all right  

so I'm fighting against something and like it's  just a kind of figurative way of saying that I  

have a problem that I'm fighting with so right  now I'm struggling with something I'm grappling  

with that thing I'm fighting with that thing it's  all the same way uh or basically different ways of  

describing the same situation do you do would you  mind would you explain the meaning of he wound up  

inventing new ways of teaching English classes yes  to like to wind up doing something means like you  

like you kind of end up doing it maybe you had not  intended to do something but you wound up going  

to a different place and this is kind of a tricky  idea because like to whine something we have like  

like a little wind-up toy and so the like the  phrasal verb like to wind up doing something  

uh this is much more advanced because it's  harder to understand a connection with like  

the physical object or whatever um but you  can think about it as like if you want to  

connect those two ideas so uh I I can't like  I can't say for certain what the origin of  

that is for this usage but I could imagine  something so if we have like here's a uh  

like a wind-up Mouse and it's got like those  little you know little like wind-up key thing  

on the top of it so that's like so right  now I'm going to wind up the mouse and I  

put them down on the ground here's  little wheels on him and he's like

we don't know where he will wind up he's kind of  spinning around and then look he wound up here  

all right so if I even if I can't think of  like a logical way to connect those I can  

come up with a quick story that can help  me understand the usage of it alright so  

that will make me feel more confident about  doing that so we start the mouse and like  

is going around and what he  wound up here so the mouse

wound up and again we go from a physical  understanding to a figurative one where like like  

I began uh like I was living in India and then I  moved to Thailand and then I wound up on the moon  

amazing so it's the same idea of like I was  here and I didn't really have a plan I didn't  

know where I was going but what now I'm here so  you can wind up being in a place or you can wind  

up doing something all right so just like to  be like that's still like a verb like you're  

still in a location so I can wind up being  somewhere or I can wind up doing something  

so maybe I started my career I thought I would be  uh I don't know like a marker a marker salesman  

but then I started like I wound up selling erasers