Name: Learn common English expressions... that come from shoes?!
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Adverbs of manner

Batman slowly turned over, and he saw his arch-villain or arch-nemesis, the Joker.

And Batman is famous for having his utility belt and tools to solve crimes.

I'm going to use this shoe to teach you some vocabulary and some idioms.

All right, so Mr. E says: "I'm a shoo-in for this job."

He's actually wearing a nice pair of shoes, so it must be something serious.

Here is a shoe, and you may notice in brown I have put one, two, three, four things about

I know you know what a shoe is-right?-basically, but did you know that these things here, we

But there's also an idiom that comes from this.

Now, what do you call the back of the shoe?

Now, this part you can't really see, but it's the part that bends like this, we call that

That's where your foot kind of goes like this.

Now, I'm not talking about the soul that goes to Heaven.

I'm not talking about the soul that goes to Heaven, I'm talking about the sole of your foot.

So, it's heel, arch which is the middle part, and then the sole, and we've got our laces,

So, let's start with the shoe itself, the whole shoe and nothing but the shoe.

The first one I want to talk to you about is about a "goody two-shoes".

Now, if you're a goody two-shoes, it means you're a good, good person.

You know, the person who does all their homework, comes on time, is very nice to everybody.

You might be religious even, I don't know, but you're a really, really, really good person.

I know, if you're an engVid watcher, that's not you.

Because you're on the internet, so I don't know what you're up to.

But a goody two-shoes only does good things, never does bad things; no bad words, no alcohol,

The next one I want to talk to you about with the shoe is "a shoo-in".

It looks like the word "shoe" here, but it's spelt differently, which might be a bit confusing.

Well, that's because when we as English people say it, we don't really think of this particular

verb, but we use the word, and when we use it we mean...

If someone's a shoo-in, and usually for a job or a situation...

When we say it what we mean is they are the person candidate or the perfect person to

So, if you're going for a job, and let's say you're a lady and you're going for a job,

She's got the right education, she has the right connections, she has the right experience."

We mean you're the perfect one for the job.

Now, remember I said it looks like this, but it's not like that?

I've got to give you the real meaning behind it.

See, this "shoo-in" comes from horseracing.

Well, way back what would happen is horses would be racing and then one horse was...

That was winning would kind of go back and fall back, and the second horse would win,

and it would become the winner, and it was called the shoo-in.

"Well, why?" you're thinking: "That's like perfect candidate, right?"

It means that the first person in the race...

So let me get you some markers so you can see the difference.

This horse was winning, but it was cheating.

Then it would stop and slow down to let the other horse win, that way people would make

Yes, but this would still get the job and win.

So, over time we took the idea from horseracing: "shoo-in", the person who would win and then

we'd say: "Whoever gets the job, or the girl, or whatever is a shoo-in" because they were

guaranteed to win, just like this one would let it win, that's where "shoo-in" comes from.

Sometimes it's better not to know the history of things.

But now you can impress your friends because when they say: "You're a shoo-in", you can

say: "Do you know what 'shoo-in', where it comes from and what it really means?

Are you trying to say I'm cheating for this job?"

Okay, so that's "shoo-in", but it will be pronounced like this.

And in modern times if someone says: "You're a shoo-in for this job", what they're trying

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