English Idioms about Time - Learn English about Time Idioms and Phrases

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hello everyone and welcome to the english danny  channel i'm teacher john and i'm here to help you  
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become great at learning english today's video  is the fourth video in our series about idioms  
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and in this video you will learn about english  idioms about time so let's get started right  
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away all right our first idiom is good timing  and good timing is different from the other  
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english phrase that that is used called good time  okay so for this phrase we always use the word  
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time in okay and good timing is  it means that something that has  
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or is good timing occurs at a lucky time all right  so let's see it in an example okay for example  
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it started to rain just as we arrived at  the train station we didn't have an umbrella  
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so that was good timing so our next idiom is time  is on my side okay and maybe you're thinking about  
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oh my side what does that mean well it doesn't  mean right about your body or anything like that  
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it means that time is helping you in a way all  right so this means that you have a lot of time  
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to do something time is on my side it's helping  me okay so let's look at an example i have  
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a lot of homework but since it's not due until  next month time is on my side idiom number three  
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is working against the clock and this means that  you don't have a lot of time to do something  
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all right so it's kind of the opposite of  the uh our second idiom that we just learned  
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so for example i have a lot of homework that's due  tonight so i'm working against the clock all right  
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and idiom number four is in the blink of an eye  all right and this means that something happened  
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very quickly okay and the key words in this idiom  really is blink okay blink of an eye all right  
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a blink is when your eye closes very quickly and  then opens again alright so one blink is like this  
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it's very fast okay so now you can see where  the idiom comes from so let's look at an example  
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the airplane flew over my house and then  disappeared in the blink of an eye so very  
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quickly the airplane disappeared and our fifth  and final idiom for this video is time flies  
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all right this means that time passes very quickly  um a lot of students think that this idiom is very  
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funny right because time cannot fly away it can't  fly in the sky but this is just a phrase to mean  
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that like something that flies usually is very  fast so when we say that time flies it just means  
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it's very fast time passed very  quickly so let's look at our example  
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for example i was playing with my  friends when i realized it was night time  
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time flies alright and that's our video for today  so if you enjoyed this video please give us a like  
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