10 English Love Expressions | English Vocabulary & Speaking

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- Hello everyone, and welcome back to English With Lucy.
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You might have noticed my new backdrop today.
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This is a terrace that is at my flat,
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my new flat in Cambridge, and I decided to film here
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because it's a nice day, and I haven't got much time,
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so I really wanted to squeeze in an extra video.
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I asked you on my Instagram what sort of expressions
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and idioms you'd like to hear about today,
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and a lot of you had some really, really good suggestions.
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One caught my eye,
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and that is idioms and expressions relating to love.
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Ahh, how sweet.
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You really are a romantic bunch, aren't you?
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So today, we're going to talk through
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10 idioms that relate to love.
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And I think this is going to be
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a really lovely positive one.
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Hopefully you'll leave the lesson
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with a warm, fuzzy feeling.
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So this lesson is going to help you improve your vocabulary.
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It will also help you with your speaking,
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because you'll be able to communicate with native speakers,
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and make yourself understood more effectively,
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and it will also help you with your listening,
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because you'll be able to understand what natives
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are trying to say to you when they use these expressions.
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Right.
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Let's get started with the love and romance idioms.
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The first one is a match made in Heaven.
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A match made in Heaven.
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What do you think it means?
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Have a little think.
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A match made in Heaven is a couple
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that is seemingly perfect.
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They are a perfect match.
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The relationship is likely to be very, very successful.
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They're very good for each other, very good for each other.
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It's what we all aspire to be with our partners,
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a match made in Heaven.
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The next one, number two, is a double date.
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A double date.
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And you go on a double date.
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What do you think it is?
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A double date is a date involving two couples.
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So if you and your partner go on a date, or out for dinner,
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or to the cinema, with another friend and their partner,
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that's a double date.
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It's a really nice thing to do.
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Okay, the next one, number three, is to be an item.
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To be an item.
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Sounds really obvious, of course I'm an item.
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I'm an object.
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Don't treat me as an object.
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Don't treat me as an object!
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To be an item means that you're involved with someone.
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So it might be used in a situation like
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"Are you two an item?
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"Are you two official yet?
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"Are you really boyfriend and girlfriend,
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"or boyfriend and boyfriend,
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or girlfriend and girlfriend, or whatever?"
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And you would say "Yeah, we're an item."
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It's a nice one.
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It's quite slang.
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Number four, you might have heard this before.
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It is to be head over heels in love.
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And this just means to be really,
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really in love with someone.
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And you can also fall head over heels in love,
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"I fell head over heels in love with him."
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Number five is to pop the question.
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To pop the question.
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I've never had anyone pop the question to me in person.
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I've had a couple of email questions.
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But to pop the question is to ask
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for somebody's hand in marriage.
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It means to ask somebody if they would like
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to be your husband or wife.
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And then, number six, after popping the question,
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you then, hopefully, tie the knot.
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To tie the knot, and to tie the knot is to get married.
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So my mum and dad tied the knot 27 years ago.
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Oh my God.
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The next one, puppy love.
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Oh my God, this one is so cute.
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And for my entire childhood, I thought that this was
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just that you loved baby dogs, but it's not.
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Puppy lug,
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puppy lug?
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Puppy love is adolescent romance.
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You're a teenager, you're young, and you feel like
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the most important, most in love, most romantic person
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in the world with your boyfriend or girlfriend,
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and nothing else matters, all that matters
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is your love for that person, that's puppy love,
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because it's not necessarily, I'm not gonna say real,
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'cause feelings can feel really, really strong,
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especially when you're young,
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but it's not maybe the most logical thing on Earth.
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The next one, number eight, a blind date.
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A blind date.
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What is a blind date?
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Now, it could be a date that can't see,
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but not in an idiomatic sense.
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A blind date is when somebody else chooses somebody for you,
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and sets you up.
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When somebody sets you up, that's a good phrasal verb,
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to set up, they set you up on a date with somebody
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that you don't know, and so you both arrive at this date,
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and it's the first time you've met each other.
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So that's a blind date.
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It can be quite a risky thing,
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to leave your love life in the hands of somebody else.
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Number nine, to be on the rocks.
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To be on the rocks.
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This one's not so nice.
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If your relationship is on the rocks,
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it means there's problems with the relationship,
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and you might break up soon.
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It's not going well.
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So you definitely don't want your relationship
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to be on the rocks, but if it is on the rocks,
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then hopefully you'll be able to sort it out,
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another good phrasal verb there, sort it out,
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and fix the problems.
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And the final one, to get hitched.
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To get hitched.
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To get hitched is exactly the same as to tie the knot.
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It means to get married.
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Right guys, that's it for today's lesson.
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