Name: 5 Common Direction Phrases in English: UPSIDE DOWN, INSIDE OUT...
Uploaded: 2020-07-30T10:12:30.000Z
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I'm having a hard time reading this book, E. It's all upside down.

E and I are having a problem because he's looking at himself in the mirror, and his

His head should be here, but it's on the bottom.

And I'm reading this book and I don't understand the words, because the words are in the wrong

That's probably one of the phrases that we use in English that confuses many people who

are learning the language, because the words are all, well, kind of topsy-turvy.

Today's lesson, I'm going to show you five common things that we say, and they are direction

related, which they do give us an idea of what direction things are going in, except

we often say it without thinking that you won't understand because we use them only

E's having problems because his picture or his mirror is upside down.

I was going to wear it, but you can see it.

Now it's the wrong way because you can see the label.

Have you ever worn your shirt inside-out by accident, and someone has to go: "Ahem.

I never thought about it!" it means the in part is on the outside.

Funny enough, this is usually when people wear their clothes incorrectly, but we have

When you say: "I know something inside-out", it means: I know everything about it because

I know every small part, from the inner part - the smallest part to the bigger part.

So, I say: "I know this book inside-out."

So, listen for context, because if they: "Hey, son.

Your underwear is inside-out", it doesn't mean: You know everything about underwear;

it means you should take it off and put it on properly.

This is the outside of the book; this is the inside of the book.

So, when saying: "I know this book inside-out", it means I know all of the information on

So, listen for that when English people speak.

If they say to you: "I know everything about this company inside-out; I know everything

about this company, from the floor, who cleans it, how they make the money - I know everything."

But if my shirt is inside-out, I need to go home and change.

Round and round you're calling me, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.

"Round and round", it means to go in a circle, moving in a circle.

If you say: "We've had this conversation for, like, 20 minutes, and we're just going round

and round the same things", it means the conversation isn't getting any...

Nothing new is coming; we're just talking about the same things again, and again, and

Hopefully you know what a CD is, because everyone streams now.

So, a lot of times, in English, people go: "We've been through this before; we just go

It means: Nothing is new; we just move in a circle, like my poor dogs who are confused

So, things, when you hear a Canadian or a Canadian English person...

English speaker go: "Why are we going around and around the same thing?"

They won't say "circle", usually; they'll just say "round".

Another variance or another one of these is "around".

They go: "We go around and around" Same thing.

Around and round, because they're both talking about circles.

Used by British people more, I would say, from England, but people know what it means

when someone says: "something's in tip-top shape".

Or to make it even easier, if you go: "What is that, James?"

When you look at a pen, that end on the pen, this very thing here is the tip of the pen,

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5 Common Direction Phrases in English: UPSIDE DOWN, INSIDE OUT...

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