IDIOMS – ENGLISH SPEAKING PRACTICE WITH 9 IDIOMS RELATING TO VEGETABLES | RACHEL’S ENGLISH

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2018-11-13 ・ Rachel's English


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IDIOMS – ENGLISH SPEAKING PRACTICE WITH 9 IDIOMS RELATING TO VEGETABLES | RACHEL’S ENGLISH

42,229 views ・ 2018-11-13

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David and I are just two peas in a pod.
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In this video, we're going to go over idioms relating to vegetables.
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This is a follow-up video to the video we did last week on vegetable vocabulary.
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Two peas in the pod. This means two people that get along very, very well.
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Yeah.
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And our son, Stoney, and his little best buddy Elias are two peas in a pod when they're together.
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We went to the zoo with them recently and the kids are just running around having a great time together.
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Yeah whenever we tell him that we're going to go see Elias,
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all he does is say: "Elias! Elias! Elias!" until we get there.
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That's right.
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They're so cute.
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Mushroom.
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When something mushrooms, this means it gets much bigger.
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You can think of a mushroom stem, and then the cap of the mushroom is much bigger.
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Do you have an example of how you can use the verb mushroom in a sentence?
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We were watching one of our recent guilty pleasures, the TV show about home renovations, and they
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they were going to take out this wall
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and it looked pretty simple, and I open up the wall and they found that beehive
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inside the wall and all these bees shot out.
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So it look like a little project just moving a wall but the project mushroomed,
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became much bigger because they had to get rid of the bees.
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Mm-hmm.
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You could also use the word 'balloon' as a verb in exactly the same way.
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When something unexpectedly gets much bigger.
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The phrase 'to spill the beans' this means to tell a secret.
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So if you have an important secret, you want to entrust it to somebody that you know will not spill the beans.
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I had a friend recently tell me she was pregnant, but she wasn't telling everybody yet.
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So I had to keep it to myself.
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She said: You're not going to spill the beans, are you? I said: No. My lips are sealed.
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My lips are sealed, of course, means I won't tell anybody.
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It doesn't literally mean...
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It means they're good at keeping a secret.
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Couch potato.
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This is somebody who is lazy, who spends a lot of time on the couch,
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watching TV, and maybe eating potato chips.
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Right.
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And are you feeling like that?
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I'm feeling like that.
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I am 35 weeks pregnant and there just hits a certain point in the day where I have no energy,
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and I just lay down on the couch, I have people bring me things as need, I am definitely a couch potato right now.
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Couch potato.
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We also have the term 'hot potato'.
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So if a potato is really hot, `you can't really, you don't want to touch it, you want to throw it up in the air.
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Idiomatically, it means a topic that is very controversial,
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and you might not want to touch it because there's such strong opinions on either side of the topic.
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Yeah and an example would be social security, which is part of our social welfare safety net in the US,
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and politicians don't want to touch it because it benefits older Americans who vote in high numbers,
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and who have contributed to that system across their entire working life.
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And so any threat of decreasing the benefits for Social Security is a political non-starter.
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It's a hot potato. Nobody wants to touch that.
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Even know the system, kind of is really in trouble.
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Needs some help.
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And the way that it's structured is going to be really problematic, still, nobody wants to touch it.
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Hot potato.
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Another potato idiom 'small potatoes'.
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This is also 'small peanuts'.
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In our podcast, where we were doing food idioms,
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I talked about small peanuts ,and it has the exact same meaning.
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It's... It means not important, or less important.
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And I sometimes feel this way when I go to a YouTube event and there are other
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really big YouTubers there with the really big numbers.
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I feel like I'm pretty small potatoes at a place like that.
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Cool as a cucumber. Have you heard this one before?
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This idiom means very level-headed, very...doesn't get anxious, doesn't get stressed out.
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Just really is able to take things in, do stuff well, stay focused.
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And my example for this is my friend Justin.
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So actually, in most of life, I am cool as a cucumber myself, I would say.
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Pretty even, but on the soccer field,
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I sort of, I'm kind of a hothead, I have a little bit of a temper, I'm all over the place.
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It's weird. I noticed that the one time I went to one of your games, I was like who is this guy.
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Um, I played in college. It's always been something that I'm really competitive about.
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It's one of the few things.
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Anyway, I'm a hothead but my buddy Justin, who I always play with, he's cool as a cucumber.
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Nothing ruffles his feathers.
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And if he sees me getting a little bit out of line, it’ll kind of reign me in.
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Wow, you used so many good phrases there.
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Reign me in, you used ruffle... Ruffle his feathers, nothing can ruffle his feathers.
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>> That's true. >> And you also said you're a hothead.
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So someone who's a hothead sort of has a bit of a temper is a little aggressive,
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so you're a hothead only on the soccer field.
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Right.
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If someone 'ruffles your feathers', that means they bother you.
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You could also say they 'get under my skin'.
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Yeah.
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So like someone who's playing really aggressively with you may be crossing the line, another idiom,
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of like a foul.
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That might ruffle your feathers.
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Quite a bit.
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And then Justin reigns you in.
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That means if you're getting a little too hot-headed, he comes over and he says: hey man, chill out, it's fine.
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>> That's right. >> Bring it back to normal.
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>>That's right. >>Okay.
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Well, sometimes when you're
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talking about it idiom, it's so hard to describe situations without using other idioms.
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>> It really is. >> It's incredible.
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'Carrot-top' this is a phrase that you might use for somebody who has red hair.
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Top of the head, carrot.
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Carrot top.
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There's actually a comedian who I feel like was somewhat famous when I was growing up,
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who went by the name Carrot Top. It was his stage name because he had orange hair.
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The phrase 'to pass or extend the olive branch'.
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This is like when you've had an argument with somebody, and you make the first move
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to reconcile with them, to make up, to be friendly, that's you extending an olive branch.
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Those are some of the vegetable idioms we thought of. Can you think of any other vegetable idioms?
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Put them in the comments below.
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And if you missed the video last week on vegetable vocabulary, be sure to check it out.
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There are some interesting things to learn there.
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David, thanks so much for joining me for this video.
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That's it guys and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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