10 Essential Autumn Idioms | Learn English

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it's feeling a little bit chilly out it definitely is starting to feel like
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autumn it's official we are in autumn but don't worry I've got your back my
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essential english autumn idioms now before we get into those must know
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idioms I would say a huge thank you to the sponsors of today's video lingo de
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whoa I'm feeling that chill let's get on with those essential autumn idioms
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number 10 autumn years autumn years basically refers to the
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later stages in your life so when your teeth are falling out you have a bad
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back and you're complaining all the time of everything hurting so when you're
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getting quite a bit older later in your life you can say you are in your autumn
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years number 9 shaking like a leaf you would normally say that a person or an
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animal is shaking like a leaf and it's normally when you're shaking because
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you're cold you say you look cold you're shaking
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like a leaf mer number eight that old chestnut that old chestnut basically
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refers to a story or something you've heard over and over again and you're now
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tired of hearing it so if I've told you a story many times
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and you're bored of hearing it and I start to speak you might say Oh Anna not
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that old chestnut again seven to drive someone nuts
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if you drive someone nuts it means you irritate or annoy them it just drives me
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nuts when people are constantly clicking their pen it drives me nuts
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six what is that six Anna you need to learn to count Oh six under the weather
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to be under the weather is to be unwell but we only ever really use this when
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we're talking about a mild illness like a cough or a cold you'd say I'm feeling
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a little bit under the weather I'm going to go a night
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five to squirrel away in the same way that a squirrel would take nuts bury
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them and store them until the winter months we can say that somebody is
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squirreling away money or items and storing them for whatever it is the
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winter maybe so I could say Jane was squirming away her money all summer
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until she could afford a winter break for save it for a rainy day
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this basically means keep it until you need it so if it's money then we'd
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suggest don't spend it now wait until you are in need of the money perhaps for
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an emergency for example save it for a rainy day
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three turn over a new leaf to turn over a new leaf just means a new start a
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fresh start so for example if I leave my job or I leave my relationship or a
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friendship breaks down then you could say I'm going to turn over a new leaf
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and start again start a new job get a new boyfriend and maybe make friends
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with a person I've fallen out with or just move on and get a new friend will
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you be my friend to take a leaf out of somebody else's book this means follow
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the example of somebody else so if you're not very good at getting up in
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the mornings maybe you would look at someone who is good at getting up in the
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morning and find out what they do and how they inspire themselves to get up
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and get going you will take a leaf out of their book
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and finally number one it's raining cats and dogs during the autumn months we
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tend to see a lot of rain here in the okay and so we will quite often say huh
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it is raining cats and dogs today raining cats and dogs just means it's
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raining very heavily so make sure you wear your raincoat or you take your
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umbrella out with you so there you go the 10 essential autumn idioms which you
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should definitely try to use over the next couple of weeks to make sure they
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