Learn the English Phrases "to take something for a spin" and "to spin your wheels"

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO TAKE SOMETHING FOR A SPIN and TO SPIN YOUR WHEELS

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "To take something for a spin." Now, usually, this refers to a vehicle. Maybe a friend of yours has a new car. You could say, "Hey, could I take your car for a spin?" That means you want to drive it for a little bit. Maybe a different friend bought a brand-new sports car and you've never really taken a sports car for a spin. You could say, "Hey, could I take your sports car for a spin? Could I go and take a little drive around town and see what it feels like to drive it?"

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is, "To spin your wheels." Now, I'm having a funny feeling I may have taught both of these phrases before, but I'm gonna reteach them anyways because it's been a little while since I've made one of these videos. When you spin your wheels with a vehicle, it means they go around really fast and you don't move forward. Maybe you're in mud or something, but in life, you can also spin your wheels. This simply means you're not making progress on something. Maybe you're working on a project at work with some colleagues and you haven't made very much progress. Your boss could come and say, "Hey, are you guys going to keep spinning your wheels? I think you guys need to get something done, so please start getting more work done. Start to make some progress. Stop spinning your wheels." Sorry, I'm not using the exact phrase, but I'm a little out of practice on this.

Anyways, to review. To take something for a spin is to go and drive it for a little bit. You can take a car for a spin. You could even ask someone if you could take their new phone for a spin or their new computer, although that's less common. And when you spin your wheels, it simply means that you are not making progress. Whatever it is you're doing, you're not making any progress. You're just kind of stuck in one spot.

But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video if I can find it. Did I put it in a pocket? It's not in that pocket, it's not in that pocket. What did I do with it? I don't think I have it with me. I'll be right back. Okay, I'm back, and I found it. This is from Ok. Hello, Bob. All the expressions are interesting, but there are too few examples. And my response, I'll see what I can do about that.

So yeah, I try to describe... By the way, thanks for the comment. I try to describe and explain the current expression or term in about a minute. Sometimes, I give one example, sometimes I give two. I will try my best to give more examples in the future.

Anyways, I'm back. I'm back at it. I know I took a little bit of a break there. Life was busy, but I was also not feeling well. I was close to losing my voice a few times, and I thought I just need to rest it for a few more days. I need to make sure that I don't overdo it because if I lose my voice, I can't make YouTube videos, I can't go to work, I can't do what I'm supposed to do. So I was able to rest my voice. I basically just took some Advil, went to work, didn't talk too much at work. I tried to rest my voice as much as possible. And even though I was a little bit sick, I did get better.

So it is nice to be feeling a lot better now and it's nice to be doing this again. I have to admit, taking a week and a half off from making short videos, I kind of forgot how to do it. Obviously, I forgot to bring my comment out with me. I haven't actually even prepared in my mind what to talk about for the last two minutes. I'm jus

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