Name: 25 IDIOMS IN ENGLISH TO SOUND LIKE A NATIVE
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Hey guys welcome to my channel welcome to this video in this video we're talking about top 25 idioms

The comparative

They make you sound more natural more American in fact

Adverbs of frequency

Americans and British people and native English speakers are using a lot of idioms and sometimes it just get confused

Because they don't make sense if you translate them word to word

So you just have to know the meaning that stands behind those phrases, and we're gonna learn them today

So if you're interested in sounding more like an American or a British person please continue watching this video

The first grace is feed around the bush, and if you again translated word into word it means like

I don't know whether that makes sense at all, but the actual meaning is not speaking directly and avoiding the main topic

Beating around the bush a good example is sometimes. You're watching a video by some vlogger, and he names the video

I got married, and then he's talking about anything, but his marriage

And you're like come on stop beating around the bush get to the topic

Medium number two is the best of both worlds sometimes when we go into a Chinese or Japanese

Restaurant here in America people say it has the best of both worlds

So it has the best Asian food and probably like American desserts or something best of both worlds

I like that in the meaning of this idiom is it has all the advantages?

Bite off more than you can chew and it if you if you translate a word to word it actually makes sense it means

Taking up a lot of responsibilities that you cannot really handle like sometimes

I think I'm fighting more than I can chew because I have my business I have my blog

I have a second vlog. I have my studies, but in the end of the day. I realized this is something

I enjoy and I want to continue doing this I've bitten off more than I can chew you know

Blessing in disguise is another idiom and it means that something is bad at first sight, but it's actually good

Good example of that is imagine that you're not accepted into the University of your dreams cry about it

But then in two months you get a job of your dreams

Which is even better because you go into practice or in my case where we're not able to raise money for

Lengua trip in Russia first take it easy. This is a blessing in disguise

But then Silicon Valley investors invited us and gave us better terms than Russian ones, and I think that was a blessing in disguise

Next idiom can't judge a book by its cover. That's obvious like don't judge people by the way

They look so the appearance is not the main factor that you should use you cannot charge something

Primarily on their appearance, but never judge a book by its cover. You know

Give the benefit of a doubt and this means believing somebody stated without any proof and for example when you fall in love you tend

to believe you're a loved one, and you don't look for any proof and

You can always use this phrase. I'm gonna

Next idiot in the heat of a moment and doing something in the heat of a moment means that you are

Overwhelmed by what's going on around you and you do something stupid, and then you regret it

But then you have an excuse because you were in the moment something was going on you just couldn't help

But I don't know scream at somebody or I don't know say a bad word

But that happened because you were distracted by something else the heat of the moment the next one is my favorite

Kill two birds with one stone, and if you watched my previous videos about ten ways you can improve your spoken English

I was talking about one of those methods when you can kill two birds with one stone

And this means learning your favorite subject in English like I am studying filmmaking right now in an english-speaking environment

And I'm killing two birds with one stone first bird is filmmaking. I'm learning my favorite subject second bird is English

I'm practicing it every day when you're intermediate

Go ahead and switch on a YouTube video of a subject that you really love and kill two birds with one stone

The next idiom let the cat out of the bag this means

Reveal information that was previously concealed for example your friends started dating another friend

And then you accidentally post a story on your Instagram

With them kissing and this means you let the cat out of the bag

It just let the information spread and your friend is really upset the next idiom

I've heard it here a couple of times and this is mr.

boat which means miss the chance when you had an opportunity to go somewhere or do something and you just

Skipped on it somebody can tell you oh, you missed the boat

We're not going to San Diego another time this year, and you missed the strip so you missed the boat

Once in a blue moon. We can say this about an event that happens really rarely like once in a blue moon

Once in a blue moon is another idiom and it means something

Happens really really and I would say meeting a celebrity in LA it happens too once in a blue moon

You don't really see them walking around though all of the actors live here and even

One of the best entrepreneurs Elon Musk lives in LA but it's not like they're just walking around. You don't really see them

I haven't really met a celebrity here. I mean like local American celebrity in the United States

I mean I made a couple of Russian celebrities, but that wasn't purpose but Americans ah no

Next idiom take with a grain of salt this means not taking

something that somebody says too seriously so for example somebody tells you you will never get into the

University of your dreams in America don't even dream about America

You'll never get there take this with a grain of salt because those people don't know what they're talking about

They not go through your life. They don't have the same experiences. Don't just believe them like that okay?

They might have their own truth. Yes, it's gonna be difficult

It's gonna be tough, but it's up to you great things happen and believe in yourself

This is a great example right take everything that you're sad with a grain of salt like

Go ahead and that be up in the air the uncertain or unsure you thought you might be going to cinema with your friends

but it's still up in the air because everyone is still busy with a

You're not sure whether you're going to the cinema in the evenings by the way in America

You would say movie theater in Great Britain you would say cinema the next one steps somebody in the back

And this means somebody was in your circle

he was a good friend, and then you betrayed him when he wasn't looking and when he was trusting you and

This is a bad thing to do stab someone in the back

Lose your touch means lose your ability or talent to deal with certain things the way used to deal before

So for example somebody was a good singer, and then his voice just

Disappeared and you can say he's lost his touch in singing, so he's no longer great

Sit tight sometimes people tell you sit tight like it's gonna happen

Which means sit tight and take no action like you've passed your exams

You've submitted your application now just sit tight and wait like there is nothing else you can do you just need to wait from those

There is nothing you have to do right now

You just have to sit tight and wait for those universities to reply face the music. This is an idiom

I've learned one who is preparing for this video because I

Conversations here, but then I remembered Kenny Perry's song. It's time to face the music. I'm no longer your muse. Do you remember that?

Face the music means face the reality, let's face the reality, I'm no longer your muse

So you're no longer in love with me rule of thumb. This is something. I hear all the time so thumb is your

Finger and rule of thumb is a general rule that has no scientific proof my filmmaking course

And they say like rule of thumb you put the aperture at 4.0 or whatever when it's daylight