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Hi there. This is Harry. Welcome back  to Advanced English Lessons with Harry,  

where we try to help you to get a better  understanding of the English language.

So in this particular lesson,  this advanced English lesson,  

we're talking about people's  reactions to certain situations.

So it's advanced English lessons, useful  collocations, advanced collocations,  

hot and cold reactions okay, so I've got ten as  always. I've got ten in this particular list.

So I'll go through them. I'll give  you an indication of what they mean,  

and hopefully give you an example that you can  play around with and get to understand it better.

Okay, let's go

An icy stare. So if somebody says something  to you and you don't like it, you look at

them

with an icy stare and it's a cold  stare because it's icy and they get  

the impression that there's something  they said that you didn't really like.

So you met with an icy stare. Or perhaps you're  trying to talk to somebody in a friendly way,  

but they don't want to be so friendly, and  they just look back at you with a cold,  

icy stare. Okay, so it's not warm, it's icy, it's  not friendly, it's unfriendly. It's an icy stare.

Second one lukewarm response. Well,  a little bit warmer than a icy stare,  

but a lukewarm response is  something that's not so interesting.

Okay, so perhaps you've made  a suggestion to your manager,  

or perhaps you've made a suggestion to the  management team, something that you put a  

lot of work into and a lot of effort,  and you think it's really a good idea,  

but when you bring it up and you present it  to your manager or the the management team,  

all you get is a lukewarm response and  a lukewarm response is less than warm.

Less than interesting and something that  they don't really care so much about. So

when something is lukewarm, it's not  so good. It's like food. You know,  

if you go into a restaurant and the plate of soup  arrives and when you taste it, look, that's not,

warm at all. It's lukewarm.  So it's not so good to taste.

So look, warm response from anybody  is something not so satisfying,  

not so spectacular and not  so interesting. Lukewarm.

heated debate. Well, now the temperature  is rising. A heated debate a heated debate  

is almost an argument. Okay? People don't want  to call it an argument because then they think  

people are shouting and screaming at each  other. But a heated debate is not far off.

A debate between two people where either one  isn't listening to the other or neither of them  

is listening to each other, then it becomes  a little bit heated. But I said that. No, you  

said that. But what? But. And it becomes heated  and argumentative and people then lose their  

tempers. So a heated debate often you get that in  political debates before President, the election

in France, or a presidential  election in America, or the,

election for a new government in the UK,  they often have these televised debates  

between the candidates for presidency or for the,

leader of certain parties.

And this is when the debates can get a little  bit heated because policies are put on air,  

that one party agrees, the other party  doesn't, etc., etc. and therefore you get  

heated debates. So a heated debate is something  where the temperature rises. The they're just  

about in control, but not quite totally in  control. So we can call it a heated debate,

a frosty reception.

Well,

We talked at the beginning about an icy stare,  

so a frosty reception is very  similar. A frosty reception is.

something cold and not welcoming. Okay, so perhaps  you had an argument with your nearest and dearest.  

Perhaps you had an argument with your parents.  Perhaps you had an argument with somebody in the  

office. Whoever you had the argument with, there's  almost guaranteed that the next time you meet,  

you're going to get a bit of a frosty  reception, so it's going to be quite cold.

Good morning. How are you today? All  right. What did you do the weekend.  

Nothing much. So the reception you  get from that person is very frosty  

because they're still feeling hurt from  the argument or whatever happened the  

day or the week before. And perhaps you  didn't have time yet to apologize, or

you haven't cleared the air with the person,  but it's guaranteed that the reception you get  

is going to be cold, unwelcoming, not warm,  and therefore we call it a frosty reception.

Next, we've got a hot temper when somebody has  a hot temper, it means they boil over or get  

excited or annoyed or angry very, very quickly.  Be very careful with that guy there. He's got a  

hot temper. You say the wrong thing to him. He's  likely to jump all over you, jump up and down  

and scream. Or if you're the coach of a football  team and you know that one of the players on the  

other side has a hot temper, you tell your guy,  annoy him, give him a few little pushes or kicks.

He'll soon lose patience. He is a hot  temper, and the referee might book him,  

or indeed might even give him  a red card. Not a great tactic,  

but it happens. Okay, so he's  got a hot temper. He's likely to

lose it very quickly, and therefore you  can exploit that in certain situations.

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Tempers flared. This is a great expression.  Particularly at the end of a football match  

or in the middle of a football match.  And so the game was really tight.

It was end to end. Both teams  going for the victory. One of  

the teams slightly better than the other.

Somebody does something a little  bit naughty, they trip somebody,  

they push somebody. And then tempers flared.

And the referee and the

referee's assistants had to come in and break  it up, and a few yellow cards were dished out

Tempers can flare in all situations  in heated moments of debate,  

as we mentioned before. In the schoolyard,  

somebody trips another kid and then they square  up to each other, and then the other boys are.

egging them on. Go on, go on, hit  him, hit him. So tempers flared.

Next. Blistering attack when a blistering  attack is a really fierce attack,

if you get blisters, it's usually from very  hard work. Or if you're walking long distances

in the hot, sticky,

weather, then you get blisters on your feet.  So a blistering attack is a really strong,

angry attack.

In political debates, one,

Leader of one party can carry out a blistering  attack on the other leader, showing up all of  

his faults. You did this. You've done that.  Your tax returns weren't submitted correctly.

You gave money to some colleague  that you knew going back many years,  

and this broke the rules. So a blistering attack  as to the performance of this particular party  

when they were in power. Or indeed there could be  a blistering attack by the parents and the school  

because of the overall performance of the school  that they have slipped down in the league about

exam results.

And they're really worried that their kids are  not getting the best, the best education, so that

teachers, they're under attack  from the parents who have come  

together. And 1 or 2 particular  spokespeople for the parents,

carry out a blistering attack on the performance  of the school and some individual teachers,

Anger boils. Well, water boils when  you put it on the stove and your,

switch on the electric kettle.

The water boils. So when people get annoyed  with each other and it's protracted over a  

long period of time, then like water, eventually  it will boil over. So anger buys like water in a  

pan begins to bubble and bubble and more  bubbles. And then suddenly, whoosh is a  

large explosion and people start shouting  and screaming. So anger boils. In a crowd.

When the crowd are very angry with the  government because of the cost of living,  

increases with the government because  of the higher costs of energy,

whatever the reason why, when the crowd gets  together, they start shouting, and then the  

crowd senses and picks up on the atmosphere,  and then the anger of the crowd begins to boil.

And then somebody starts shouting and  screaming, and some things are thrown,

And then the police have to come in and break  up the crowd. So that usually how it starts. So

the anger boils, and perhaps it even boils  over and they end up with a full scale riot.

Hotly denied.

Well, again, when we talk about the  word deny, to deny something is to  

say you didn't do it. You denied that you  were there. You denied that you took the  

last piece of cake. You denied that you said  something that somebody feels. You insulted  

them. So when you hotly deny something,  it means you really strongly deny it.

So it's not just, no, I didn't

No, I didn't do that. Or I didn't take the cake  or the biscuit. I didn't say that. When you  

hotly denied, I absolutely, absolutely, 100%  can guarantee that. I never said that. So you  

really get angry and annoyed that somebody would  accuse you of something, so you hotly deny it.

You often see this as a headline in  a newspaper or on a radio program  

on the internet. So the government has hotly  denied that they mismanaged the tax revenues  

or they the government's budget position.  They hotly denied that there's been any

misuse of funds. Okay.

Or a company could hotly deny the rumors going  round that they're about to be taken over,  

or that they're about to go bankrupt.  So. And then, of course, a week later,  

they do. They take somebody over and they go  bankrupt. And of course, and everybody says,  

well, I told you so. So to hotly deny  something is to really, really, really.

refuse to accept that something  happened or that you did something.

And then finally, relations have  thawed. So when something thaws,  

it turns from ice into water. It melts ice. Okay,  so when relations thaw, they melt a little bit,  

they improve. Okay, so perhaps those people who  were having the argument before and we talked  

about a frosty reception. Well somebody apologises  and says, Oh come on, we can't go on like this.

So if I said something that offended you,  I'm really sorry. I've forgotten it now. So

the other person says, okay, look, let's just get  

on with life. So relations may  not be back to what they were.

but they've improved.

So we can say that the relations between the  people have thawed. They have improved. Not  

perfectly, but given time, it'll probably  get back there. So when something thaws,  

it becomes easier. When the snow  falls and tends to ice, it's very,  

very difficult for several days or weeks or  months. And then as the temperature rises,  

the ice begins to melt and we can say  it will thaw and the thaw has set in.

So it's t a pronounced  pronunciation is thaw. Okay.

Now. So that's all ten particular  collocations relate in and advanced  

collocations, but hot and cold.

Okay, so there we have it.

Useful collocations, advanced collocations all  about hot and cold, hot and cold. Different  

degrees like everything hot and cold. Okay,  thanks for listening. If you need to contact me  

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