5 ENGLISH IDIOMS YOU MUST KNOW

Today, I want to teach you five English idioms about life.

As an English learner, you must master English idioms in order

to speak English fluently.

Now, this lesson is going to help you understand five important ones, but

I have a free PDF that I want you to download right after this lesson that

includes 17 of the most popular English idioms, these idioms will help you sound

more like a native English speaker.

So hit the link in the description to get your free PDF.

Now, are you ready to jump right in?

Well, then I'm teacher Tiffani.

Let's jump right in.

Here's the very first English idiom.

I want to teach you today.

The idiom is cut to the chase.

Good again, after me cut to the chase.

Excellent.

Now this idiom literally just means to get to the point without

wasting time on unnecessary details.

Again, to get to the point without wasting time on unnecessary details.

Think about this lesson.

I started off right at the beginning, letting you know, Hey, I'm going to

teach you five English idioms, but I also want to give you 17 more that

are very important, very popular.

Here's the PDF.

And then we went right into the lesson.

I wanted to cut to the chase.

You got it.

Yes.

Getting to the main point here is the first example sentence using this idiom.

Let's cut to the chase.

What's your final offer for the contract?

We're going back and forth.

You're telling me many different things.

Listen, let's get to the main point.

Let's cut to the chase.

What is your final offer for the contract?

You got it.

Yes, I remember it.

This is not even in my notes.

I remember when I purchased my car, I walked into the dealership and the young

lady was very nice and I let her know.

I said, listen, I just want to cut to the chase.

What's the price.

Tell me all the details.

I don't like to haggle back and forth.

I wanted to cut to the chase.

And she was great.

She cut to the chase and I bought a car.

All right, here is sentence number two in our meetings.

The CEO always cuts to the chase to save time.

He or she is not about wasting time.

No, let's cut to the chase.

And finally, sentence number three, as you're realizing

how important this idiom is.

I appreciate how you cut to the chase in your presentation,

highlighting only the key points.

You didn't give information that wasn't important.

You only gave the key points.

I like and appreciate how you cut to the chase in your presentation,

highlighting only the key points.

You got it.

Excellent.

All right.

So again, the first idiom is cut to the chase.

Here is idiom number two.

Idiom number two is throw someone under the bus.

Again, throw someone under the bus.

Now you're probably looking at me right now, like Tiff.

Why are we tossing people under vehicles?

Let me explain to throw someone under the bus.

Literally just refers to betraying or blaming someone,

especially to save yourself.

Listen, I didn't do it.

She did it.

Uh, uh, nope, nope, it was her or nope, I didn't do it.

He did it.

It was them, it was them.

You're throwing them under the bus again, betraying or blaming

someone usually to save yourself.

I didn't do it.

That was them.

That was over there.

That was them throwing someone under the bus.

He got it.

I kind of like that.

All right, here we go.

Here is sentence number one.

Don't throw your colleagues, your coworkers under the bus.

Just to make yourself look better.

This is something, even though it's an example sentence, I want

you to live by this principle.

Don't throw your colleagues, your coworkers under the bus just

to make yourself look better.

Treat people the way you want to be treated.

Okay.

All right, here we go.

Sentence number two, she felt betrayed when her manager threw her under

the bus during the project review.

Her manager didn't protect her.

Her manager didn't save her.

Instead, her manager threw her under the bus, betrayed her or blamed her.

You got it.

And sentence number three, it's unprofessional to throw your team

under the bus when things go wrong.

Once again, it's unprofessional to throw your team under the

bus when things go wrong.

This is a very important point.

Take responsibility.

Don't just blame other people.

All right.

So again, idiom number two, throw someone under the bus.

Now, idiom number three, idiom number three.

Bite off more than you can chew

good.

Once again, after me bite off more than you can chew.

Excellent.

Now to bite off more than you can chew just refers to taking

on more responsibility or work than you can actually handle.

Hey, I'm able to handle this amount, but I took on this amount,

a lot more than I can handle.

Bite off more than you can chew.

The easiest way to remember this idiom.

I want you to think about a child, a child who loves ice cream.

This child gets a bowl of ice cream and while they could eat it slowly, instead,

they start to eat it very quickly, putting more in their mouth than they can handle.

And all of a sudden their mouth starts to get bigger and things

start to pour out of their mouth and the mother says, listen, you know

that you can't handle all of that.

Take it one bite.

At a time in this sense, biting off more than you can chew the literal situation.

We can use it again when you're taking on more responsibility

or work than you can handle.

You got it.

Excellent.

All right, here is sentence number one.

Be careful not to bite off more than you can chew with this new project.

Listen, it's a lot.

It's a big one.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Sentence number two, I think I've bitten off more than I can chew by

agreeing to three deadlines this week.

I think that's going to be a bit much.

I think I've bitten off more than I can chew by agreeing

to three deadlines this week.

And sentence number three, the new employee bit off more than he could

chew and is now struggling to keep up.

You got it.

Excellent.

All right.

So once again, number three, idiom number three, bite off more than you can chew.

Now, idiom number four, idiom number four, put all your eggs in one basket.

Again, put all your eggs in one basket.

Good.

Now this idiom, put all your eggs in one basket, just refers to investing

all of your resources or efforts into a single course of action.

Hey, I'm going to do everything I can to make this right here work.

I'm not going to worry about this or that.

I'm putting all of my eggs in one basket.

All of my efforts are going towards this one thing in English.

We say.

Put all your eggs in one basket.

Check out this first example, sentence.

It's risky to put all your eggs in one basket by relying on a single supplier.

What if that business goes out of business?

What if that business fails?

Then your business will also fail.

It's very risky to put all your eggs in one basket by

relying on a single supplier.

You got it.

Excellent.

All right, here we go.

Sentence number two, instead of putting all your eggs in one

basket, you should diversify your skillset to stay competitive.

Hey, don't just learn one skill, learn multiple skills to diversify your skillset

and make yourself more marketable.

Sentence number three, the company put all its eggs in one

basket with this product launch.

And it paid off.

Sometimes it pays off to put all your eggs in one basket.

Once again, the company put all its eggs in one basket with this

product launch and it paid off.

You got it.

Excellent.

All right.

So again, number four is put all your eggs in one basket.

Number five, idiom number five.

Another good one back to square one.

Good again, back to square one.

Excellent.

Now this just means to return to the starting point after a failed attempt.

All right, you're going back to where you started after you failed.

Like, Hey, I failed, but I'm going to start again back to square one.

Here's an example sentence.

The client rejected our proposal.

So we're back to square one.

He rejected our proposal.

Now we have to go all the way back to the beginning.

We're back to square one sentence number two, after the software crash, we had

to go back to square one and rebuild the entire database sentence number three.

If this marketing strategy doesn't work, we'll be back to square one.

One.

If it doesn't work, we have to go right back to the starting point.

You got it.

Excellent.

So once again, back to square one.

Now, remember I said at the beginning, don't forget to download your free copy

of 17 of the most popular English idioms.

This PDF is going to expand the lesson we just had and help you

really understand English idioms.

I hope you enjoyed today's lesson and I'll talk to you in the next one.

You still there?

You know what time it is.

It's story time.

Ay, ay, I said it's story time.

All right.

This today, I want to tell you a story that's actually connected to a song.

So when I was in South Korea, I was known as the singing teacher.

I enjoy singing.

I hum all day.

If I'm at work, I'll, when I was at work, working at a company right

now, I run my own company, but when I was working in an environment with

other people, I was always singing.

So I was known as the singing teacher when I was in Korea.

And.

I think about that periodically because We affect each other.

We have an influence on the people around us.

So when I would sing, it would make people happy.

When I would sing, it would actually lead other people to

start humming throughout their day.

And so I wanted to go back to square one.

You caught that, right?

I'm using the idiom back to square one to one of the songs I loved the most when I

In Korea, I knew this song before I went to Korea, but it was one of the

songs that really meant a lot to me.

And it was kind of a starting point, um, for my time in Korea.

And I want to sing a part of the song for you.

I've sung this song before on this channel several years ago.

Um, but I want to sing this song for you and you might've heard it.

If you know it, sing along, here we go.

I have a father

and he knows my name.

Before even time began, my life was in his hands and he knows my

name, he knows my every thought.

He is my God.

Now that last part I improvised because something interesting happens.

Whenever I get to this part of the song, my brain naturally

switches from English to Korean.

And I was about to sing it in Korean, but I decided to switch it to English

and make up the words at the end.

But it's just talking about having a father in heaven.

He knows my name and he knows your name and he knows my every thought

and he sees, here are the words.

Now they came back.

Korean went away.

He sees.

Every tear that falls, and he hears me when I cry, it's just a reminder

of how much God cares for me.

And you know that I'm a Christian.

You might not know, actually, I'm a Christian.

That's why I do this.

My desire is to help as many people as possible.

My desire is to help you achieve your English goals.

Why?

Because Jesus came to this earth to save me and to save you.

And again, you might not be a Christian.

It's totally okay, but I want you to understand the reason why I am so

passionate about teaching you English.

The reason why I care so much is because Jesus came to this earth and

his entire life was to serve others.

So I want to dedicate my life to serve you to help you achieve your goals.

So I went back to square one with the song again, improvised quite a few of the

verses, quite a few parts of the lyrics.

And I'm okay with it.

I hope you enjoyed it.

I'll talk to you next time.