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  • - Hello everyone, and welcome back to English With Lucy.

  • You might have noticed my new backdrop today.

  • This is a terrace that is at my flat,

  • my new flat in Cambridge, and I decided to film here

  • because it's a nice day, and I haven't got much time,

  • so I really wanted to squeeze in an extra video.

  • I asked you on my Instagram what sort of expressions

  • and idioms you'd like to hear about today,

  • and a lot of you had some really, really good suggestions.

  • One caught my eye,

  • and that is idioms and expressions relating to love.

  • Ahh, how sweet.

  • You really are a romantic bunch, aren't you?

  • So today, we're going to talk through

  • 10 idioms that relate to love.

  • And I think this is going to be

  • a really lovely positive one.

  • Hopefully you'll leave the lesson

  • with a warm, fuzzy feeling.

  • So this lesson is going to help you improve your vocabulary.

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  • It will also help you with your speaking,

  • because you'll be able to communicate with native speakers,

  • and make yourself understood more effectively,

  • and it will also help you with your listening,

  • because you'll be able to understand what natives

  • are trying to say to you when they use these expressions.

  • However, I think you know what's coming next.

  • If you want to take your listening to the next level,

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  • I can offer you a one-month free trial,

  • that's an entire free audiobook,

  • and you can use these audiobooks to practise your listening,

  • and your pronunciation, so you can listen to a book

  • whilst reading it, and that's an amazing way

  • of creating your own listening exercise

  • that you are really interested in.

  • Honestly, there are so many options,

  • self-help, fiction, nonfiction, stories.

  • I've also left some links to books

  • that I recommend you listen to.

  • There's the Harry Potter collection read by Stephen Fry,

  • there's Sherlock, there's The Curious Incident

  • of the Dog in the Night-Time, I can't remember if I've said

  • that title correctly, but it's a fantastic book,

  • and a fantastic Broadway show in London.

  • That one's particularly good,

  • because it's written from the point of view

  • of an autistic boy in the first person,

  • so it's very good if you want to listen

  • to somebody telling a story in first person,

  • so that you can then practise your storytelling,

  • and the language is every so slightly more simple.

  • So that's a really good recommendation there.

  • It's down in the description below,

  • you don't pay anything for the first month,

  • and if you don't like it, you can cancel it.

  • Right.

  • Let's get started with the love and romance idioms.

  • The first one is a match made in Heaven.

  • A match made in Heaven.

  • What do you think it means?

  • Have a little think.

  • A match made in Heaven is a couple

  • that is seemingly perfect.

  • They are a perfect match.

  • The relationship is likely to be very, very successful.

  • They're very good for each other, very good for each other.

  • It's what we all aspire to be with our partners,

  • a match made in Heaven.

  • The next one, number two, is a double date.

  • A double date.

  • And you go on a double date.

  • What do you think it is?

  • A double date is a date involving two couples.

  • So if you and your partner go on a date, or out for dinner,

  • or to the cinema, with another friend and their partner,

  • that's a double date.

  • It's a really nice thing to do.

  • Okay, the next one, number three, is to be an item.

  • To be an item.

  • Sounds really obvious, of course I'm an item.

  • I'm an object.

  • Don't treat me as an object.

  • Don't treat me as an object!

  • To be an item means that you're involved with someone.

  • So it might be used in a situation like

  • "Are you two an item?

  • "Are you two official yet?

  • "Are you really boyfriend and girlfriend,

  • "or boyfriend and boyfriend,

  • or girlfriend and girlfriend, or whatever?"

  • And you would say "Yeah, we're an item."

  • It's a nice one.

  • It's quite slang.

  • Number four, you might have heard this before.

  • It is to be head over heels in love.

  • And this just means to be really,

  • really in love with someone.

  • And you can also fall head over heels in love,

  • "I fell head over heels in love with him."

  • Number five is to pop the question.

  • To pop the question.

  • I've never had anyone pop the question to me in person.

  • I've had a couple of email questions.

  • But to pop the question is to ask

  • for somebody's hand in marriage.

  • It means to ask somebody if they would like

  • to be your husband or wife.

  • And then, number six, after popping the question,

  • you then, hopefully, tie the knot.

  • To tie the knot, and to tie the knot is to get married.

  • So my mum and dad tied the knot 27 years ago.

  • Oh my God.

  • The next one, puppy love.

  • Oh my God, this one is so cute.

  • And for my entire childhood, I thought that this was

  • just that you loved baby dogs, but it's not.

  • Puppy lug,

  • puppy lug?

  • Puppy love is adolescent romance.

  • You're a teenager, you're young, and you feel like

  • the most important, most in love, most romantic person

  • in the world with your boyfriend or girlfriend,

  • and nothing else matters, all that matters

  • is your love for that person, that's puppy love,

  • because it's not necessarily, I'm not gonna say real,

  • 'cause feelings can feel really, really strong,

  • especially when you're young,

  • but it's not maybe the most logical thing on Earth.

  • The next one, number eight, a blind date.

  • A blind date.

  • What is a blind date?

  • Now, it could be a date that can't see,

  • but not in an idiomatic sense.

  • A blind date is when somebody else chooses somebody for you,

  • and sets you up.

  • When somebody sets you up, that's a good phrasal verb,

  • to set up, they set you up on a date with somebody

  • that you don't know, and so you both arrive at this date,

  • and it's the first time you've met each other.

  • So that's a blind date.

  • It can be quite a risky thing,

  • to leave your love life in the hands of somebody else.

  • Number nine, to be on the rocks.

  • To be on the rocks.

  • This one's not so nice.

  • If your relationship is on the rocks,

  • it means there's problems with the relationship,

  • and you might break up soon.

  • It's not going well.

  • So you definitely don't want your relationship

  • to be on the rocks, but if it is on the rocks,

  • then hopefully you'll be able to sort it out,

  • another good phrasal verb there, sort it out,

  • and fix the problems.

  • And the final one, to get hitched.

  • To get hitched.

  • To get hitched is exactly the same as to tie the knot.

  • It means to get married.

  • Right guys, that's it for today's lesson.

  • Don't forget to sign up for your free trial at Audible.com.

  • The link is in the description box.

  • Also, don't forget to connect with me

  • on all of my social media.

  • I've got my Facebook, my Instagram, and my Twitter,

  • and my P.O. box as well, so you guys can send me letters,

  • because I know a couple of you have been asking

  • if you can send me cards for my birthday,

  • and yes you can.

  • You don't have to, that is so kind.

  • My birthday's the 10th of June, that's my P.O. box,

  • if you want to send me a card, that would be lovely,

  • and I always make an effort to reply

  • to anybody who sends me letters at present.

  • I hope you enjoyed the lesson,

  • I hope you learnt something,

  • and I will see you very, very soon for another one.

  • Mwah!

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