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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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Thank you We sneak in idioms Allah shmoop you may

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have been asking yourself when will i finally outgrow the

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need for shmoop Uh the answer when the cows come

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home on a bunch of flying pigs Yeah we said

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that an idiom like a lifetime of painless homework is

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a whole load of nonsense It's never going to actually

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happen An idiom is a phrase that means something completely

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different from how it sounds If idioms were taken literally

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well we'd all be very confused and disappointed Idioms are

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kind of like slang in that they usually have some

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historical origin So maybe one time someone said this phrase

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and in that precise instants it made some sense So

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more people started saying it And now it makes zero

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sense and sound sort of weird but we still say

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it anyway So if somebody says something that seems totally

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dumb it might actually have an excuse They might just

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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

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do like eat a piece of cake and another and

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another even when we're sort of feel like puke on

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Bring it on Letting the cat out of the bag

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is when someone spills a really big secret which really

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sounds a little more dramatic than a cat that's in

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the bag A cat in a bag just sounds like

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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

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nobody's saying like that awkward thanksgiving dinner when everyone knew

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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

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no eyeball removal necessary although that would definitely keep anyone

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from trying anything fishy and plenty of fish in the

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sea is what we tell our friends when they go

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through a nasty romantic dumping There are plenty of other

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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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