we've looked at phrasal verbs,
and now something that I think
is very helpful and something that
you hear a lot in every day conversation
by native English speakers are IDIOMATIC PHRASES.
I'm going to take different types
of idiomatic phrases and i'm going to give you
So we're going to start with relationships.
I have 6 idioms that I think are very common,
that I use a lot in my every day speach with
and some of them are negative.
So let's look at each other's throats;
So if you think about Homer Simpson and Bart Simpson.
What's the most common picture or situation
that you see the two of them in.
It's Homer Simpson with Bart and they're fighting.
It's an idiom to show that two people are fighting.
They are „at each other's throats“.
So just think of Homer and Bart Simpson.
A shoulder to cry on is a supportive idiom,
you're saying if you have a problem give me a call,
there's always a shoulder to cry on.
So imagine your friend has a problem
they put their head on your shoulder
and they cry and you listen to what
It's not literal, you're not saying
here look put your head on my shoulder
You're saying i'm here to listen to you
if you need somebodey to talk to.
I need somebodey to listen to my problems.
thick being thick and thin being thin.
If I say „he has been my friend through thick and thin“
So we're saying through the bad times
When we've hed really bad problems
and when we've had really good times.
We don't have the same opinion.
We're not saying that we have a very bad relationship
or that I really don't like this person, we're just
saying we don't see eye to eye.
It's also a very polite way of saying that
You can't say „I hate this person“ or
„I really son't like that person“
We just don't really agree on certain things,
we don't have the same opinion.
To clear the air; If i've had a fight
with somebody or I've had an argument,
a disagreement, to clear the air
is I go to this person and I say look
„Can we talk about what happened?
I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to say these things“.
I really feel like you we're very agressive
and you shouldn't have spoken to me like that.
But I want to apologise for the way that I've spoken.
It's all of the bad air, negative air after the fight
or the problem and you want to clear the air.
You want to make the situation or your relationship better.
And the very last one, it's a very common one.
„To fight like cats and dogs“.
So we know that cats and dogs, they are not suppose to like each other.
So if we say that they were fighting like cats and dogs,
The children were fighting like cats and dogs,
it means that they were having a big argument or
So there are your six idioms for relationships,
some being positive and some being negative.
Ok so let's look at some idions for agreeing and
disagreeing with people. So I've chosen 4.
You took the words right out of my mouth
So say something is going to happen,
and you reply „over my dead body“.
You are not going to let this happen.
The person will have to kill you for this to happen.
Maybe for example; You're 16 years of age and you say
„I want to go to the disco until 3 o'clock in the morning“
and the reply from the parents would be „over my dead body“-
This is not going to happen unless you kill me.
You're going to have kill me and then this can happen.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
It's like saying what this person said, it's like
they took the words out of your mouth.
Like you were about to say this, or
what they said is exactly your
Sol they „took the words out of your mouth“.
It's almost like they read your mind.
They could see what you were thinking in your mind.
You agree with what this person has said.
So somebody gives their opinion and you
Say it again because it's true.
what they said is right or correct.
So you're making it strong and you're telling
them that we have the same opinion.
And finally, „you must be joking“,
is to showe somebody that you don't
Somebody says something and you say
You don't have the same opinion as them.
But what they said or what they're thinking
you think „it must be a joke, that can't be