Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO CATCH ON and TO BE A CATCH

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to catch on." Now, I taught this phrase a while ago, and I said it meant to understand something. When you're in a class and the teacher teaches something, eventually you catch on. But it has another meaning as well. When you say that something is catching on or that something is going to catch on, it means that everybody's going to start doing it. I wear blue shirts with a collar, and someday, maybe this will catch on and everyone around the world will wear blue shirts with collars. I doubt that will happen, but anyway, stay tuned because the comment this week uses this phrase. We'll talk about that in a sec.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is "to be a catch." Now, this is kind of a funny statement. When there's a guy or a girl who's really attractive or wealthy or a lot of people think they would make a good partner, we say that that person is a catch. If someone was to marry someone who's a doctor and has a lot of money and drives a fancy car, you might say, "Oh, he's a real catch. He's a catch." Or maybe someone in your family's dating someone whose family is wealthy, and you might say, "Oh, she's a catch."

Anyways, to review, when you catch on or when something catches on, it means that it becomes popular and a lot of people around the world start doing it. And when you say that someone is a catch, it means that they are attractive and people really, really want to date them.

Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohd Ags. "You're completely ahead of the game, Mr. Bob, not just one step ahead. You're in a league of your own, I'd say." Thank you. "P.S. I like how people are starting to adopt the three emoji thing at the end of their comments." And my response, "I've noticed that as well. The three emoji thing is catching on."

So I used today's phrase when I replied to Mohd. Thanks, Mohd, for that. Yes, people are starting to put three emojis. I don't know why I started doing that. I usually try to pick three emojis that make some sense. Sometimes, it's just random, but usually, I try to have them make some sense.

Hey, I'm standing in my shed. This is the location. I'm gonna walk out into the sun in a sec, so I'll need my sunglasses. But this is the location, it doesn't look like much now, where the flower shop will be. By the way, the road is right there. Oh, they're loading a big piece of equipment up. But right here is where the flower shop will be. I have to put a stone driveway in here, and I have to kind of build a storefront. That's where the wall that's being built from a fence will go. But anyways, just thought I'd show you that. It needs to be cleaned up quite a bit. It's quite messy. But I will get to that.

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