25 Advanced English Phrases

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Welcome to my channel.

Today I'm gonna teach 25 common expressions

in English that are gonna help you

diversify your speech and they are more advanced,

more of like native speaker level common expressions.

So make sure you're writing them down

and make sure that my goal is for you

to use at least four or five of them

in your speech later when you start practicing.

So, let's make it.

Let's do it.

25 common phrases in English.

Number one.

24/7.

When something is going on for 24/7

it means it's constantly going on.

I'm working 24/7

'cause I have to finish this project.

Which means that I'm working all day long.

- You're drunk 24/7.

- Butterflies in my stomach

means I'm nervous but I'm nervous in a good way.

Whenever I see him I have butterflies in my stomach

because I like him so much.

Butterflies in my stomach.

- I've got butterflies in my stomach.

- Draw the line.

To stop, to know the point

when something is going from being okay

to being not okay.

For example, I have this toxic person in your life

who is constantly complaining

and not bringing any value,

and you draw the line in communicating with them.

And you say, "Hey, we have to draw the line

in our communication.

I can't handle this anymore

'cause you are toxic."

You don't really say that to a person

but yeah, but this is the expression.

Draw the line.

- I am to draw the line.

- Easier said than done,

which means that it's easy to say something

because it sounds kinda easy

but it's really hard to do it.

And it's a really common expression.

Like, can you come to work at 06:00 a.m. tomorrow?

Easier said than done.

Yeah, it sounds easy, 06:00 a.m.

but then you have to wake up at 04:30 a.m.

to cook breakfast and take shower

and you're like uh-uh, easier said than done.

- Easier said than done Manarky boy.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

This is an expression that I've learned in the UK.

It means that every bad situation actually has something

good to it, for example,

you're fired from work but every cloud has a silver lining

and you'll find a better job.

- I know, but every cloud has a silver lining.

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and now let's continue with the phrases.

Finding a needle in a haystack means

almost impossible to find.

Sometimes people say

finding a job is like finding a needle in a haystack,

which is not exactly true

for the current economic situation in

the United States, I think we have historically low

unemployment rates so if you're in the US

you probably don't have a lot of difficulties finding jobs.

- What is that?

- Looks like a needle in a haystack.

- Fish out of water.

To feel out of place.

For example, you're in an environment where

you can't grow.

You know, living in this town I feel like fish out of water.

I can't connect with people,

I can't grow, I feel that I'm useless.

I need to change my environment.

- Three smart fish outta water in a world he never made.

- Go down in flames.

Fail suddenly and spectacularly.

For example, you are taking your English test

and you go down in flames.

You made so many mistakes, you got an F,

you failed, ugh.

- At least we're going down in flames.

- Get something off your chest.

To talk about something that has been bothering you

for a while, to admit that you've done something wrong.

Okay, I have to take this out of my chest,

I cheated on my SAT exam, this is an example,

I haven't taken SAT but this is the way

you can use this expression,

to get something off your chest.

- Is there anything you wanna get off your chest?

- Go the extra mile; to make an extra effort.

With all of the courses that we produce,

we try to go an extra mile and add additional checklists

and add additional exercises so that you can feel

that you're getting more than what you paid for.

This is always the goal.

- I'm talking about going the extra mile.

- Plain as day.

Obvious, clear.

For me it's plain as day that if you want to master English

you not only watch videos,

you not only talk to people in English,

you also watch TV shows,

you also write in English,

you start a blog in English,

you try to convert everything in English,

you try to do your daily activities in English

and this is the way you'll master it.

- I don't see it.

- Plain as day.

- Pull yourself together.

Calm down and behave normally.

Something happened in you life and you became nervous

and you're acting really weird.

Somebody can tell you pull yourself together, stop it.

- Pull yourself together Teddy, pull yourself together.

- Sick and tired; to be bothered and annoyed by something.

I am sick and tired of people hating each other

in comments on YouTube.

I think this is really counterproductive.

I think that doesn't make any sense

and it just wastes people energy.

Sick and tired.

- I'm sick and tired of having nobody.

- Sleep on it.

This is a phrase used to tell somebody

to take a little extra time to make a decision.

For example, you decided to stop learning English

and I'm telling you, uh-uh, sleep on it.

You know English is an instrument that can open

a lot of doors for you, it can get you a new job,

it can get you a new life, so sleep on it

before giving up on your English.

- Can I fire him?

- Sleep on it.

- Step up your game, one of my favorite phrases.

Start performing better.

You need to step up your game

in your English language education.

You know, after this video write a post on Instagram

in English using a couple of these phrases.

This would be the way to step up your game

in your studying.

- Now you gotta step up your game a little bit here.

- Tip of the iceberg.

An easily visible part of a larger problem.

So if you make mistakes in present simple tense

that means it's just the tip of the iceberg

'cause probably you're making mistakes in other tenses

and that's a larger problem.

Tip of the iceberg.

- Mason and Krewcoff were just

the tip of the iceberg.

- You rock.

If you don't make any mistakes, you're awesome, you rock.

This is an expression used to compliment

somebody on something.

- You rock man.

- Break a leg; good luck.

Very common expression, break a leg with your English,

good luck with your English.

- Let's break a leg.

- Break a leg.

- Throw under the bus.

To blame somebody for something.

If I fail this English test, I'm gonna throw myself

under the bus 'cause I've been learning English

for 10 years and if I fail it, it means that, you know,

10 years wasted.

I'm gonna throw myself under the bus.

I'm going to blame myself really hard for it.

- We're okay throwing me under the bus?

- Under the weather.

When you feel under the weather, it means you feel sick,

you feel ill but not like completely ill,

not like down with the flu and stuff.

The context here might be

"Do you wanna go to the movie theater tonight?"

"You know, I feel a little under the weather,"

"Do you want to skip?"

"Do you wanna schedule it for the next week?"

- Yeah, heard you were under the weather.

- And the next phrase here that you can use;

and next week, let's play it by ear,

which means let's see how it goes,

let's not agree on a specific date and time,

let's just play by ear, you know,

I'm going to text you on Tuesday and see how I'm feeling

and we'll decide on the exact date and time later on.

- Your right, let's play it by ear.

- Think outside the box is a very common phrase;

to think about something in a different way.

Maybe you're dissatisfied with your English

but think outside the box,

you already have this base and now you can build on it,

now you can evolve faster.

- You have to think outside the box.

- Challenge accepted; somebody tells you

you won't be able to reach the advanced level in 30 days.

You're like challenge accepted.

I'll take this course, I'll do my homework,

I'll do other things in English

and I'll prove you that I can become

advanced in 30 days, challenge accepted.

- Challenge accepted.

- In the heat of the moment.

This means that the decision has been made

when you were angry or too passionate about something

and you probably need a rethink, you probably regret it.

Oh, I'm sorry I made this decision

in the heat of the moment.

Yeah, I regret it a little.

- In the heat of the moment I said some things

I didn't mean.

- Make a long story short means cut the details

and get to the point.

- Okay, so to make a long story short.

Okay, I'll make a long story short.

These were 25 expressions.

I hope you learned them,

I hope you wrote them down, and homework?

Create a post on Instagram, or whatever you're blogging,

maybe Facebook or whatever,

using a couple of these phrases

just try to introduce them to your daily speech

and this is the only way you learn them.

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