Name: 10 common English Idioms & Expressions from Education
Uploaded: 2020-07-30T16:25:29.000Z
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In today's lesson I want to teach you eight idioms that come from education.

Actually, I have 10 of them, a couple of them are just expressions, though, so I can add

All of these come from education, but now we use them to talk about other things that

might not be related to education at all.

So, as you know, idioms are groups of words, they're expressions whose individual words,

when they're put together might not mean the exact same thing as the words themselves.

They can have completely unrelated meanings, and we're going to see some examples of these.

We have a lot of ground to cover, so we're going to go slowly but surely through it all.

So, what does it mean "to cover a lot of ground" or "have a lot of ground to cover"?

It means to have a lot of material or a lot of information to get through, and understand,

When we cover a lot of ground, technically it comes from the ground, and you cover ground

But we use "ground" as information, and "cover" means go over.

So: "cover a lot of ground", get through a lot of information.

Also, we "can't teach an old dog new tricks".

So what does it mean, you can't teach an old dogs a new trick?

You are moving to another country because you're studying English, you want to immigrate

You get to that country and you want to continue speaking with your grandfather in your home country.

So you're trying to teach him Skype or you're trying to teach him, like, a mobile app, messenger, whatever.

But your grandfather is trying, trying, trying, he just doesn't get it.

And then finally he says: "You know what?

We'll call each other on the telephone once in a while."

So finally you give up, you say: "You know what?

It means as people get older, it's very difficult to change their habits.

We're not calling old people old dogs, it's just an expression, but basically old people

You can't teach them, so that's where the education comes in.

Now, something or someone is "old school" or he or she belongs to an "old school of

thought" or to a particular school of thought.

So, if somebody is old school, he or she likes something that is a little bit old-fashioned,

likes to do something a little bit old-fashioned, something that's probably outdated, not modern.

Now, it doesn't have to be about a person.

Cuba has a lot of old cars from the 1950s. Okay?

We can say: "Oh, wow, that's a really old-school car."

It has the old engines, nothing computerized.

It's all carburetor and all kinds of pipes all over the place.

It's very cool, but it's not modern. Okay?

When we talk about a school of thought, it means it's a particular way of viewing something

We especially use it to talk about, like, philosophy.

But even in science there are certain scientists who basically subscribe to this particular

So, we use the word "subscribe", means they believe in doing it this way.

Other scientists subscribe to this school of thought.

There was a scientist who said: "This is the way we should do it."

There was another scientist who said: "This is the way we should do it."

All the people who follow this way created a school or a viewpoint, they created their

So, if we're talking about how to discipline children, okay?

Some people like to sit their children down and talk, talk, talk for hours to try to teach

In other cultures they just slap them on the bum, the kid understands, never does it again.

The slapping thing is a little bit old school, we don't really do that anymore, but it comes

from an old school of thought where punishment creates discipline.

I'm not getting involved in the actual question, that's up to you.

So, if somebody needs to learn the ropes, they need to learn how to do something.

So when you join a company for the first time, at the beginning you don't know where the

copy machine is, you don't know where the fax machine is, you don't know how to do things

around the office, so at the beginning you have to learn the ropes, learn how everything

I think it actually comes from sailing, I'm not sure.

All kinds of different ropes you need to learn how to use them to sail your boat, but basically

it means adjust to a new situation, get to know it, move on.

Now, if you're going to "teach someone a lesson", it means you're going to punish them.

"I'm going to teach you a lesson you won't forget."

So somebody did something bad to me, and I want to get revenge, I want to teach them

I want to punish them so they understand that what they did to me was bad and I'm going

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10 common English Idioms & Expressions from Education

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