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Hey, everyone.
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I'm Michael, and this is Happy English.
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For today's English lesson, we're
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going to look at some slang and idioms
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that we use to talk about being relaxed.
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When you're calm, or you're relaxed, you can always say,
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ah, I'm calm, or I'm relaxed.
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But don't you want to use some more colorful English slang?
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I'm sure you do.
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Let's check it out.
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The first one is chill or chill out.
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When it's cold, your body and any animal's body
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moves a lot more slowly, so we use the phrase chill
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or chill out to mean be relaxed or calm.
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Chill and chill out can be used either
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as an adjective or a verb.
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It's my day off, so I'm going to chill out today.
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I think I'm just going to chill today.
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Since it's my day off, I think I'm just going to chill out.
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I chilled out at home last night watching TV.
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It was great.
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I just chilled out, and watched TV.
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I chilled out watching TV last night.
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It was great.
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My friend Jack is a pretty chill guy.
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Nothing really bothers him.
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That guy Jack is so chill.
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You're going to love hanging out with Jack.
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He is really chill.
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He's chill.
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He's totally chill.
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Mellow out is also a verb that means to relax.
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Jenny was mellowing out on the sofa this afternoon.
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Yeah, I think she was just mellowing out.
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Oh my god, I had such a tough day today.
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I need to mellow out.
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I think I'm going to go home, get changed, and then just
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mellow out all night.
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I had a really tough day today.
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I just want to take it easy.
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I'm going to go home tonight and just take it easy.
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After work, I'm going to go right home,
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and just take it easy.
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I love to take it easy on the weekends.
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Sometimes, you might need to tell somebody to relax.
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In that case, here are some phrases you can use.
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Cool your jets.
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Cool your jets.
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This is a little bit of a 1980s sounding phrase,
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but you can still use it to tell somebody to relax.
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Hey, cool your jets.
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I think you just need to cool your jets a little bit, OK?
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Give it a rest.
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Come on, John, just give it a rest.
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Hey, hold your horses.
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Hold your horses.
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Hold your horses.
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This sounds like the 1800s, and it's
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a little bit of an old fashioned phrase,
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but you might hear that on a TV program, or in the movies,
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or if you want to sound a little bit nostalgic,
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then you can tell somebody, hey, hold your horses.
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Jack, hold your horses.
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Hey, keep your shirt on.
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Hey, keep your shirt on.
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Keep your shirt on.
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When someone gets really upset, they
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might decide to punch someone and maybe in the old days
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they would take their shirt off to do that.
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So if you want somebody to relax a little bit
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and not be so upset, you would tell
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them, hey, keep your shirt on.
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Come on, Jack, keep your shirt on.
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Hey, just keep your shirt on, OK?
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Hey, simmer down.
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Simmer is when you're cooking something
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and you reduce the heat to the lowest level possible.
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That's simmer.
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So when you lower your tension down to the lowest point,
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you simmer down.
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Hey, simmer down, OK?
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Just simmer down.
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Jack, I think you need to simmer down, OK?
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Just simmer down.
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Hey, why don't you just take a chill pill, OK?
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A chill pill, we imagine there is some kind of pill
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that someone can take to make them chill or relaxed.
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hey, take a chill pill.
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I think you need to take a chill pill.
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I think you better take a chill pill.
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Hey, how about you?
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Have you chilled out today?
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Do you know anybody that needs to take a chill pill?
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Leave a comment below and let us know.
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Hey, thanks for studying, and I'll see you next time
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right here at Happy English.