Learn English Idioms: Nice Guys Finish Last (Meaning and Examples)
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Hey, guys! This is Jack from tofluency.com, and in this English lesson,
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you're going to learn the idiom: nice
guys finish last.
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You're also going to see a variant of
this idiom as well but first I'm going
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to show you a video from a live lesson
than I did on Facebook. So, let's watch
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that now...
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Claudio Ranieri proves nice guys do not
always come second. In the video, you saw
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the headline: Claudio Ranieri proves that
nice guys do not always come second. Okay,
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now, Claudio Ranieri is the manager of
Leicester City and Leicester City have
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just won the Premier League title. Claudio
Ranieri is also known as a really nice
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guy. So, there is an idiom that says: nice
guys finish last
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or nice guys comes second - and because
Claudio Ranieri is a nice guy and he
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finished first or he came first
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it's trying to say that this is an example that (where) this idiom isn't always true; that nice
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guys sometimes finish first. Now, the
idiom is trying to say that you can't be
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nice to be successful. So, nice guys
finish last means you can't be a nice
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person to be successful and to win - and a lot of the time people believe that you
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have to be ruthless or selfish or
inconsiderate in order to be successful;
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in order to win. Now, I have a question
for you: can you be nice and successful?
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Do you think that you have to be
ruthless in order to win or do you think
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you can be nice and be successful at the
same time? So, please leave your answers
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below this video,
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thank you for watching, and I'll see you
next time!
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