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This video defines idioms and explains how to use these nonsense phrases to communicate a point—even though they mean something totally different from how they sound. With this video, understanding idioms is a piece of cake.
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in idioms Allah shmoop you may
- 00:07
have been asking yourself when will i finally outgrow the
- 00:10
need for shmoop Uh the answer when the cows come
- 00:14
home on a bunch of flying pigs Yeah we said
- 00:17
that an idiom like a lifetime of painless homework is
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- 00:20
a whole load of nonsense It's never going to actually
- 00:24
happen An idiom is a phrase that means something completely
- 00:27
different from how it sounds If idioms were taken literally
- 00:31
well we'd all be very confused and disappointed Idioms are
- 00:35
kind of like slang in that they usually have some
- 00:38
historical origin So maybe one time someone said this phrase
- 00:42
and in that precise instants it made some sense So
- 00:45
more people started saying it And now it makes zero
- 00:48
sense and sound sort of weird but we still say
- 00:51
it anyway So if somebody says something that seems totally
- 00:54
dumb it might actually have an excuse They might just
- 00:57
be using an idiom like one of these common ones
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A piece of cake is something that's really easy to
- 01:03
do like eat a piece of cake and another and
- 01:06
another even when we're sort of feel like puke on
- 01:08
Bring it on Letting the cat out of the bag
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is when someone spills a really big secret which really
- 01:14
sounds a little more dramatic than a cat that's in
- 01:16
the bag A cat in a bag just sounds like
- 01:19
a great youtube video there's also the elephant in the
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room as in that huge thing that everybody's thinking but
- 01:26
nobody's saying like that awkward thanksgiving dinner when everyone knew
- 01:29
aunt judy and uncle bob we're getting a divorce biting
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off more than you can chew is getting a little
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overexcited and committing to too many things and ending up
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crying and boring I'm doing a group project all alone
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Oh and still having brand practice in three hours to
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kick the bucket means to die so maybe the bucket
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was filled with scalding acid er's can that be bad
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Keeping an eye on somebody let's just watching over him
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Maybe they're an unruly child or a shifty poker player
- 01:57
no eyeball removal necessary although that would definitely keep anyone
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from trying anything fishy and plenty of fish in the
- 02:03
sea is what we tell our friends when they go
- 02:06
through a nasty romantic dumping There are plenty of other
- 02:09
eligible bachelors are bachelorettes without literal and there's Plenty more
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Where that came from Break a leg hit the books
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missed the boat on the fence pulling wool over someone's
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eyes and the list goes on We suggest warning people
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before you invent any new ones Send him to us 00:02:27.048 --> [endTime] anyway And well lush him up for you
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