Learn English with TV Shows / English with "BREAKING BAD"

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it’s another episode

of our learn with TV series series

If you’re new here – what we do is I basically take

a TV series and one episode from it, watch it,

analyze it, pick up interesting phrases,

expressions, phrasal verbs etc.

Then I explain them here. So that you can watch

that episode in English and enjoy not having to

search for every other expression. Sounds good, right?

Especially these days when we have a lot of free time on our hands.

We can spend some time binge-watching TV shows and learn.

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finally dive into today’s video. We’re breaking down the

the “Breaking Bad” TV series. Season one,

episode one. And first of all let’s talk about

the name of the show and the meaning of it. So, to

break bad means to turn toward immoral

behavior or to step into the world of crime,

to go against what is considered normal

and ethical in society. But listen to the

executive producer of “Breaking Bad”. How he explains this phrase.

I come from Virginia and it's a very much of a

southern regionalism. But I though everybody new

It means to raise hell. Oh, Ok!

I was the other night at the bar and I just

tied one on and I really broke bad I just really

Oh man, I just wound up in the back of a squad car

You can watch the whole thing clicking the link down below. As it

turns out not everybody knew this phrase even in the United

States, cuz it’s very regional. So, he says

it means to raise hell, which is another phase

that means to behave in a way that is not controlled

and causes trouble or it can mean to argue loudly.

Let’s move on to our

next phrase Dick around. So this one isn’t nice

and is vulgar. So you’ll be better off without using it.

This is just so you know the meaning. So In this

example it means to cause a lot of problems for someone.

Also, it means to waste

your time doing something meaningless.

A Smartass is an individual who annoys

and irritates people because they are either

overly sarcastic or they think they

are very clever and behave as if they

know everything.

Short-handed usually of a

company or organization that has a lack

of necessary workers.

Ride along.

A ride along I think is such a cool thing.

It’s an arrangement for a civilian

an ordinary citizen to

spend a shift with a police officer,

firefighter or paramedic in the passenger

seat and be able to observe their work day.

Drop off – is a phrasal verb which has several

meanings just as all of the rest of them. In this

case it means to take someone or something

with you in your car in order

to take them to a place and leave them there, when

you’re on your way to another place.

Snitch – is an informer in the criminal

sense. In a nutshell, it’s a criminal that

provides information to the police or FBI

about other criminals.

Peek our heads in – this phrase

is modified so it sounds better and cooler.

Basically it’s peek in, which means to take a

quick glimpse into something in

order to see someone or something or to check

some place.

To picture something is the same as

to imagine something. So you can say

“I didn’t picture that” or “I didn’t imagine that”.

Turn in – in this case it

means to tell the police about a person who committed a crime

and their location.

Step off. When in a

confrontation someone says to the other person to

step off they’re asking them to back away and leave them alone.

DEA – this abbreviation is important for this TV series.

It’s Drug Enforcement Administration.

They fight with drug

trafficking and distribution within the US.

Damned if I know. It’s the same as to say

“I don’t know” or “I’m not aware”.

Basket case

is used to describe someone who’s

emotionally unstable, anti-social and weird.

Don’t shit where you eat. So this proverb

basically means that it’s better

not to jeopardize or foul up

a situation or place in which

you frequently find yourself, be it

your home or work place.

Jib head is a crystal meth addict.

Which is what this TV series is all about.

Lay eyes on means to see someone

or something especially for the first time.

Dimed on him means

told the police about him. It comes from

“to drop a dime on someone” which means to turn someone in.

Shut someone out means to

intentionally exclude someone from an

activity or not let someone inside a house

or as in this case

not willing to share your thoughts and feelings with someone.

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