I COULD DO WITH A MASSAGE | LEARN ENGLISH IDIOMS 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

Hello. This is Jack from tofluency.com

and in this English lesson, I'm going to

share an idiom I used after driving for

seven hours. I'm filming this lesson on

a very rainy Monday morning but I've

just spent a week at the beach. So, my

family and I went to a place called

Hilton Head and it was wonderful. We

spent a lot of time in the ocean walking

on the beach, having fantastic food,

swimming in the pool and just spending

time together as a family. It's hard to

tell in this video but I actually got a bit

of a tan as well. However, the drive back

was very long - it usually takes about

four and a half hours to get from Hilton

Head to where we live in North Carolina,

but there was a lot of traffic and we

had to stop a couple times because

we have childrenS., o it ended up taking

over this seven hours in total. I drove

the whole way back and as you know,

driving for a long time is really

uncomfortable - your back is in a weird

position and it really starts to hurt as

well. And as soon as we got back and I

turned off the car in the driveway, I

looked around and said to my family: I

could really do with a massage. So, I used

the idiom: I could do with - I could really

do with a massage and this just means

that it's something that you need or

that you want or something that you

could benefit from if it happened. Because my back was hurting because I

had been driving for so long, I felt that

I needed a massage - I wanted a massage.

Here are some more examples now: when you

have had a stressful day, you might say: I

could do with a drink. I could do with a

drink.

When you are really busy doing something

and no one is helping, you might say: I

could do with some help. I could do with

some help. When your hair is getting long

and it's getting messy, you can say: I

could really do with a haircut. The really

adds some emphasis to it. What's

interesting is that we can also say: I

could do without. I could do without. You

might hear someone say: I could do

without all this stress at the moment. I

could do without all this stress at the

moment. And this is saying that the

stress isn't wanted or needed like it's

a hassle at the moment to have all the

stress - we don't want and we don't need

this stress. Now it is your turn: what

could you really do with at the moment?

Is it a drink? Is it a break? Or is it

something else? Let me know in the

comment section: what could you really do

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