Name: IDIOMS! | 9 must-know idioms for English conversation fluency | Advanced English lesson
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And today, we're going to go over nine  idioms that are related to fruits.

Past simple

This is a follow-up to the fruit vocabulary  video that we just did.

The first idiom you may have heard of is  comparing apples to oranges.

It means that you're comparing two  things that shouldn't be compared.

Like they're so different that comparison  doesn't really work.

Those are two different fruit eating experiences.

>> They're both fruits. That's about it. >> Yeah.

>> You can't compare them. >> No. He can't compare them.

So the one that I thought about was something that comes up when people discuss sports is that

it's fun to compare teams from two different eras.

So right now, in American basketball, well  basketball, the NBA,

basketball has gone global now so there's lots everywhere but in the NBA,

the Golden State Warriors are a historically good team.

They just won their 3rd championship in 4 years.

And, so now, the discussion is comparing them with other teams from other eras and specifically,

people are talking about the Bulls' team  from the 90s that have Michael Jordan.

Everyone knows and remembers Michael Jordan's

>> basketball play. >> Pretty much in consensus,

But it's really hard to compare those two  teams and say: Who is the best team of all time?

Three-point shooting has become much  more common and much more important.

There have been obviously rule changes  in the time since then.

And so we can have debates about it but  comparing Jordan's Bulls

to the current Warriors is like comparing  apples to oranges.

Because the sport itself has changed so much.

Yeah, I think that that's a big part of it.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

So to me, it's this idea that, you know, an  apple tree drops its fruit close to where

the tree grew and it means, as we use it, that a child of someone is often very similar to their parent.

It means that there may be traits that are real similar and I think as we were getting ready, I think that it means

And I heard you say that and I didn't really agree.

I mean, definitely, we hear it negatively.

For example, if you know a  grown man with a really bad temper

and maybe you see his kid is starting to  develop a temper, has meltdowns,

>> you could say: Apple doesn't fall far from the tree. >> Right.

And that's negative but I also think it can be used just as easily in a neutral or a positive situation.

For example, as you know, Stoney has taken to music big time, singing all the time, playing on,

playing drums on anything that looks a  little bit like a drum.

And then I went on to get a Master's Degree in opera.

So, I feel like with singing and me and Stoney, you could say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

I don't know. Maybe you think it's negative.

You may have heard a person described as a 'bad apple'

and this basically just means 'not a good person'.

>> I could think of a couple but I'll refrain. >> Yeah.

So someone who's very negative or not cooperative, hard to be around, or does something really terrible,

is a liar, is a cheater, you could say: he's a bad apple.

plays on this idea of a bad apple and that's something like: A bad apple spoils the whole bunch.

I think that's from the idea that when the apple is rotting,

that mold can literally spread to the next  apple in the bunch.

To me, that comes up, I was thinking of  an example, I was doing a training

and there was a group of people at a back table

and they were really disengaged, they  were kind of talking to each other

in the back, and not just whispering but audibly talking.

>> While you were trying to present something? >> While I was presenting and...

>> It kind of, it soured the whole room. >> Yeah.

And everybody then was kind of distracted and looking back trying to figure out what was going on.

And so that one bad table of people  kind of soured the whole room.

Okay, if someone is 'bananas', then they're crazy.

It can mean lots of different things, right?

If there's a birthday party and they're all super hyper.

Um, when else could you use it?  How else would you use it?

There's another use that is more like someone is not in touch with the here and now or is having a psychiatric,

I don't know, situation, where people would say:  Yeah, I think he's kind of going bananas.

It's not a kind or friendly way to refer to that.

You would sort of only use that in very informal settings where you know people really well.

But it means, it can mean 'going crazy' in that sense too, like, really lose in touch with the here and now.

Yeah. So you could say 'he is going bananas', you could also say 'he's bananas'.

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