Bob's Short English Lessons Learn the English Phrases FLAT AS A PANCAKE and FLAT BROKE
Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases FLAT AS A PANCAKE and FLAT BROKE
In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, flat as a pancake. Do you know what a pancake is? A pancake is something that we fry in a frying pan. It's made out of flour, and water, and butter, and I'm sure there's sugar in it too. And it's very, very flat. In North America, we eat them with butter and syrup on top. They're really, really yummy, but because a pancake is flat, we also have this phrase, flat as a pancake. If you look behind me, there is a soccer field, and the soccer field is flat as a pancake. We like to have our soccer fields really, really flat. The other day, I drove over a pop can in my driveway, a soda can, and I crushed it. And after I drove over it, it was flat as a pancake. It no longer looked like a can. It was flat, it looked a lot more like a pancake. Of course, there's no way I would mistake it for a pancake, but it certainly was flat as a pancake.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase flat broke. This is actually a repeat phrase, but you know how I like to match the phrases, right? When you are flat broke, it means you have no money in your wallet. You have no money in the bank. You do not have any money at all. Sometimes when people get paid on Fridays, by Thursday, they are flat broke. On Thursday, they've spent all their money, and they have nothing left, and they are flat broke. That's probably not a very nice feeling. I do remember when I was younger, at one time I was flat broke, and I remember putting $5 into the bank machine. No, I put $2 into the bank machine, so I could take out $5. 'Cause I had a little over $3 in the bank, and I thought that would be a good way to have a little bit of money for the evening.
Anyways, to review, when you say something is flat as a pancake, it means that it is really flat, okay? And when you are flat broke, it means that you have no money in your wallet. You have no money in the bank, you have no money at all, but hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Aleksey. It would be more acceptable to lose an hour in the spring, if time change happened at like 4:00 PM on Friday. And my response was that is the best idea I've ever heard.
So Aleksey is referring to time change from the previous lesson. The idea that in the fall, we put the clocks back an hour, in the spring, we put 'em ahead, and I would 100% agree, Aleksey. If we could, in the spring, move the clock ahead while we're all still at work, we would all get to go home an hour early. Could you imagine if in the spring, I'll have to watch it here, it's a little wet, if in the spring, your boss came in at four o'clock, and you normally work 'til five, and your boss said, hey, we are going to move the clocks ahead. It's now five o'clock, you can all go home. That would be very, very, very cool.
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