Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase WITH A FINE-TOOTH COMB and IN DROVESIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase with a fine-tooth comb. When we say that we do something with a fine-tooth comb, or when we go over something with a fine-tooth comb, it means we look at it very carefully. I'm not sure what this hand motion means. A good example would be this though. When the police arrive at a crime scene, they go over it with a fine-tooth comb. This means that they go over it very carefully. They look at every single piece of evidence that they can find. They don't just walk around, and step on everything, and do something in a really bizarre unorganized way. They come and they go over the crime scene with a fine-tooth comb. They might even make little squares with rope, and look at each section of the area where the crime was committed in order to gather as much evidence as they can.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase in droves. And I know my phrases are usually related. Today, they're not. When you say that something happens in droves, it means it happens with great quantity. We use this a lot to talk about people. When there's a sale at a store, people arrive in droves. That means lots of people arrive at the same time. A lot of times when there are concert tickets, when they are selling tickets for a concert, people will line up in droves to get the tickets. They'll be so excited to get the tickets, they'll even line up before the ticket office is open. They had come in droves. They arrive in droves to buy their tickets.So to review, when you go over something with a fine-tooth comb, it means you very carefully look at it in an organized way. And when people arrive in droves, it means a lot of people all arrive at the same time.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Let me figure out what pocket that comment is in. This comment is from Albert. I guess below the belt is a boxing term, and my response, I think you're right.So in my last video, I talked about the phrase below the belt. And interestingly enough, I didn't really mention where the phrase came from. And after a bit of research, I realized that a couple of people in the comments were correct. Below the belt is originally a boxing term. You shouldn't punch people below the belt during a boxing match. I don't often look at the history of the phrases I teach, because that doesn't always give a lot of meaning. Sometimes in the case of below the belt, it does. But sometimes the meaning has lost its original meaning, or its original use. And we use it in a completely different way. So I like to always explain the most common way we use it.Anyways, I'm out for a bit of a walk here in a typical Canadian subdivision. There's a large dog barking over there. I hope he doesn't come to visit me. This would be a typical Canadian subdivision. A subdivision is an area in a town or city where people live in houses. Notice there are no apartment buildings here. They live in houses, and each person has a small lot with their house on it. Let me spin you back around. Jen and I obviously don't live in a subdivision. We live on a farm out in the country, and I am in my local town right now, just taking a bit of a walk.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase BELOW THE BELT and ABOVE BOARDIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase below the belt. When someone says something to you that's not very nice, especially if it's really, really nasty. You might say that it's below the belt. When you describe an insult or an action as being below the belt, it means it's really, really hurtful. It's really, really negative. I think the phrase below the belt comes from, for guys especially, if you get kicked down there below the belt, it hurts quite a bit. And so I think this phrase is a similar idea. If someone says something that's just really rude or really nasty, or they do something that's really rude or nasty, we would describe it as being below the belt. It's definitely not nice to do things that are kind of below the belt to people. It's just not a good thing at all.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you is the phrase above board. When something is above board, it means it's done in the right way, and it's done legally, and it's done well. Let's say that two teams are trading players. If they do everything above board, they will announce the trade, and they will follow all the rules. Let's say the Toronto Raptors are trading one of their players with another team in the NBA. They wanna make sure everything's above board. They wanna follow all of the league rules, when they make the trade, they don't wanna do something illegal or sneaky. So they wanna make sure it's done, above board.Anyways, to review. When someone says something that's insulting or does something that's not very nice. If it's really, really nasty and mean, we say it's below the belt. And when you do things above board, it means you take the time to do them properly. You follow the rules, you do it the right way. So that yes, hopefully so that you don't get in trouble for doing it the wrong way.But anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Daniel. I've noticed you are a sport enthusiast, Mr. Bob. Please tell us your favorite sports and teams. I guess hockey is the favorite one of most Canadians. And my response, I have come to love watching NBA basketball, I like the Toronto Raptors. Hockey is very popular in Canada, but I don't actually watch it. Don't tell any of the other Canadians that.Yes, I have become, just during COVID, during this pandemic, Jen and I have become Raptors fans. We started watching them actually, I think the year before the pandemic, they were in the playoffs and they actually won the championship. But we weren't really fans. We just jumped on board, because they were doing so well that year. But then during, I forget at what point, but at a certain point in the winter we started watching Raptors games quite regularly. We would watch one a week and then maybe two. And now the Raptors are actually in the playoffs. Sorry, bit of a loud truck there. And we have watched, I would say a couple games a week for most of the season. We are a little bit sad right now though, because, yeah, they just lost three games in a row, against Philadelphia. And it's a best of seven series. So if they don't win four straight, their season is going to be over.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase I'M AFRAID THAT.. and I'M AFRAID NOTIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "I'm afraid that." This is a phrase that we use when we're telling someone bad news, or when we're telling them something that might disappoint them, and it kind of shows that we're being nice as we say it to them. Here's a good example. Let's say you had a trip planned and then someone might call you and say, "Hey, I'm afraid that I have to tell you "that your trip has been canceled." When you say "I'm afraid that," it kind of softens the blow a little bit. It makes the bad news, it's like you're saying it in a way where you're trying to be as kind as possible while you give them bad news. So you might hear something like, "I'm afraid that your team "has traded the best player to another team." That would be not very nice news, would it? If you had a favorite player and someone said, "Oh, did you hear, "I'm afraid that they're trading him to another team."WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanna teach you today is very similar, and it's the phrase "I'm afraid not." This is similar to the first one, but it simply means no, and it's the same thing. You're trying to say it in a nice way. If you said to me, "Hey, did the Toronto Raptors "win their basketball game last night?" I would say, "I'm afraid not." Basically no, they didn't win their game. Philadelphia beat them hands down. It was not a good game to watch. It was kind of sad actually. I feel really bad about it. But if you were to ask me if they won, I would probably say, you know, "I'm afraid not." And you can see, I'm saying it in a way where I know that you don't want to hear that bad news, so I'm trying to soften it a little bit.Hey, let's review though. The first phrase, "I'm afraid that" is used to give someone bad news. "I'm afraid that your COVID test came back positive," or, "I'm afraid that your team "has decided to trade all the players away "and just have rookies next year." That would be an interesting season. And the phrase "I'm afraid not" simply means no, but you're saying it in a way where you're trying to be a little bit aware that it is not nice news for the other person to hear.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ruslan. "Thanks for another great lesson, dear Teacher Bob. "I noticed that you cover the plants with black film. "What is this for? Very interesting." And my response was, "It stops the weeds from growing."So we should walk over there maybe. It's a little windy today, but we'll take a walk anyways. I have this microphone right now which is supposed to work a little bit better in the wind. You can see there's snow on the ground, by the way. It was kind of a strange turn of events yesterday. It went to minus five, it snowed in the night. It definitely doesn't feel like spring, which makes me laugh, because the video I just put out a couple days ago on my other channel is all about spring.But let's take a look here, spin you around. You'll see that these plants, we cut circles into the black fabric, and then we have peonies in here. There's a few that are coming up I think if we go this way. Yeah, just a couple popping out of the ground there. So yes, we use this black fabric to prevent weeds from growing.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION and THE FINAL STRETCHIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "by any stretch of the imagination." Now, your imagination is when you use your mind to think about things, to imagine things. When you say something in the negative, and then you add the phrase, by any stretch of the imagination, you're just emphasizing the point. I better give some examples. Let's say there's a team that's not very good at soccer. They're not a very good football team. You could say they are not a good team by any stretch of the imagination. So no matter how you think about that team, they are a bad team. So we used this phrase to emphasize that. I used it I think in the other day where I said, I'm not rich by any stretch of imagination. This simply means that I am not someone that has lots of money in the bank. So in order to emphasize that, I add the phrase, by any stretch of the imagination. I'll use this phrase at the end of this video, or when I reply to the comment too, you'll see.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, "the final stretch." Whenever you do something and you only have a few days or weeks or months left, when you're at the, kind of close to the end, you might say that you're in the final stretch. Right now at school, we have about two and a half months left, so the school year is about 10 months long. I feel like we're in the final stretch right now. We're in the last part of the school year. Just a few more weeks, pretty soon it'll be May, and then it'll be June, and before you know it, the students will be writing exams and the school year will be over, so I feel like we're in the final stretch.So to review, when you use the phrase, by any stretch of the imagination, it's used to emphasize a negative point. That's not a very nice car by any stretch of the imagination. You would be emphasizing that it's not a nice car. And when you say that you are in the final stretch of something, it means that you're in the last part. When I get close to the four-minute mark when I'm making these lessons, I'm in the final stretch of the lesson.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Parkash. Nice weather and nice video too. And my reply was it was a beautiful day. Not like today. Today, the weather is miserable.So I would say that it's not a nice day by any stretch of the imagination. That was the part where I was going to use that phrase. Right now, it's kind of strange out here. It is warm, but it's really, really windy. I'm not sure if you can see it. I actually, I think it's calmed down a bit since I started making the video, but this tree was just moving in the wind like crazy earlier. And it's spitting rain a little bit.The ground is sopping wet. I don't know if I've ever used that phrase before. When you say the ground is sopping wet, it means it's rained a lot. I am wearing my rubber boots again because the ground is sopping wet today. It's certainly a miserable day out here, not the nicest day in the world, but still, not a bad day to make a video compared to way back in January when it was snowy and lots of wind and freezing cold and my hands would, it would feel like my hands were freezing off.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase A SLAP ON THE WRIST and A SLAP IN THE FACEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "a slap on the wrist." When we say something is a slap on the wrist, it means someone was punished or disciplined for something, but the punishment or discipline was very minor. Here's a great example. Maybe someone on a sports team you like did something they weren't supposed to in a game, and so they fined the player $10,000. Sorry, it's a little loud here 'cause I'm in town. Maybe that player makes a million dollars a year. So a $10,000 fine would just be a slap on the wrist. So, basically, maybe the player did something in a game or outside of the game that they weren't supposed to do. And so they were given a really small fine and it was just a slap on the wrist.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "a slap in the face." Now this is completely different. A slap in the face is an insult. Maybe at work, you and another person both want the same promotion. Maybe you've been at the job for 20 years and you've worked really hard and you think you deserve it. And the other person has worked there for 15 years and they worked really hard and they think they deserve it. And then they give the promotion to the boss's son. That would be a slap in the face. That would be a bit of an insult because both of you were probably way more qualified than the boss's son.So, to review, a slap on the wrist is when you are disciplined for something and it's a very minor discipline compared to what you did. And then a slap in the face is basically when a situation is such that it's insulting, that you feel insulted by what has happened.But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Sorry, I'm a little distracted with all the traffic, but I'm sure you're enjoying it. We'll take a little walk in a bit and you'll see some campers. This is from Aquiles, "Nice video, teacher Bob. Here in Mexico, spring break just began, so I'm going to take a break from English the next two weeks. See you later, everyone. Take care." And my response was, "I hope you have a nice break. Enjoy it, I'm sure it will go fast."So thanks, Aquiles, for that comment. Yes, breaks are always nice, aren't they? It's nice. We just actually had our spring break a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure I actually mentioned that on any of my videos, but I did have a week off from work, and it was very, very enjoyable. So Aquiles, I hope you have a good break, as well.Anyways, I'm out here by this camper van place where you can buy basically camper trailers and camper vans and all sorts of campers that you can use, if you go camping. Now, Jen and I actually don't own one of these. We will probably never own one of these and we usually don't go camping. I think you can probably guess why. There are two reasons why we do not camp.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase TO MAKE A LIVING and A LIVING WAGEIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to make a living." When you say that someone is getting enough money from work to make a living, it means they have enough money to pay all of their bills. I make a living by going to work and teaching and by doing YouTube and between the two, I have enough money every month to pay all my bills. So it's really nice to be able to make a living doing something that I like. It's nice to be able to earn enough money from my teaching job and from YouTube to pay all my bills. It's kind of satisfying to sit down once a month and pay all the bills and just make, and just have enough money to do it. So I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I do make a living by going to work every day and by doing YouTube, and, of course, the flower farm as well.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other English phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "a living wage." So a living wage in Canada is about $18 or $19 an hour, and working about 40 hours per week. If you earn that much money in Canada, we call it a living wage. That means it's enough money to rent an apartment and to pay your bills and to live a somewhat okay life. It's on, a little bit on the low end maybe. It might sound like a lot of money to you, but Canada is an expensive place to live. I mean, milk at the store is $7, so making about $18 or $19 or $20 an hour, we would call that a living wage, but by the time you've paid rent and paid your taxes, which are really high in Canada, and bought groceries and maybe a little bit of money left over to do something fun, it's, it doesn't go very far. In English, when you say, money doesn't go very far, it means you spend it and then it's gone fairly quickly.So, to review, to make a living is to work and to have enough money to pay all your bills. And if you make a living wage, it means the place where you work pays you just enough money for you to be able to have a life where you can pay your bills, but you're not gonna be able to save a lot for retirement on a living wage, but you'll be able to pay all your bills.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Vitor, and from the last video where I was in town. Vitor says, beautiful houses, Bob. Nice pair of colors. Dark brown walls are matching the roofs. Indeed, a top-notch place to live and a calm park for kids to play. Now that things are getting back to normal, it is a great idea to hang out with your kids to have some quality time. By the way, thanks for the lesson. And my response, yeah, I'm liking the colors as well. This was a newer row of houses in my local town and they were bought up quick.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase TO HIT YOUR STRIDE and TO TAKE SOMETHING IN STRIDEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to hit your stride. When you hit your stride, it means you're very comfortable and efficient doing something. Here's a good example. Eventually, Jen and I will bring flowers to market, not yet though, because winter has just ended and spring is just beginning. We don't have flowers yet, but eventually we'll go and the first week or two at market will be a little bit rough, but eventually though, we will hit our stride. This means that eventually at market, we will feel comfortable, we'll remember how to sell flowers at the market. We'll remember how everything goes in our van and how we set up, eventually we will hit our stride and everything will go smoothly.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you today is to take something in stride. Now, when you take something in stride, it means something happens to you and it doesn't really affect you much at all. Here's a good example. Sometimes in my classroom, a student will ask a question without putting their hand up or a student will speak when I'm speaking and I just take that in stride. I don't get mad. I don't get angry. Sometimes I'll just calmly remind the student to please be a little bit more polite, but I don't react in an extreme way, I just take it in stride. Once in my classroom, a student threw something at the board and instead of yelling and getting angry, I just took it in stride and I just turned and said, with no emotion I just said, please don't throw things in class. I'm not a very mean or strict teacher, but usually when I ask for things, students do listen, so I'm thankful for that.Anyways, to review, to hit your stride means you're doing something and you've become comfortable doing it again. At the beginning of the school year after a few days of teaching, I usually hit my stride and I like doing it again and to take something in stride means to not react emotionally, to not get angry or anything like that, but to just kind of not react at all when something happens.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Iris. Hello teacher Bob, thank you for the amazing lesson every time. I have a question. What does it mean, this week has been a zoo? Is it kind of this week has been busy? Thank you in advance. And my response, it means it has been crazy and busy.So that was from my last lesson. In my last lesson, I mentioned that my week had been a zoo. So when you say that something has been a zoo, it means it's been crazy. If I said to Jen, hey, my class today was a zoo. It means that the students were loud and jumping around and crazy and things didn't go as planned. It would just mean that it wasn't calm and peaceful in the way it normally is.But hey, let's look at a few things here. Over here, you could see that I'm at a park and maybe you could see the soccer goals, soon kids will be playing soccer again. We're really close, it's going to start in a few weeks. You can see here too, that there is a sign. It says, dog on leash, stoop and scoop, pick up after your pet and then there's a little thing here that says, if your dog poops, you should pick it up. It's always a kind thing to do. When you share a public space with someone, it's always kind to clean up after your animals because no one wants to accidentally step in dog poop. That's something that usually annoys me quite a bit. I hate it when I'm at a park and someone hasn't cleaned up after their dog, just kind of anSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase TO COVER FOR and COVER TO COVERIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to cover for". Now this phrase has two meanings. It can mean that you lie for someone when they do something bad. Maybe my brother, when I was younger, would like to steal cookies and I would cover for my brother by telling my parents that the cat was eating the cookies. That didn't actually happen. That was just an example. But we also use the phrase "to cover for" to talk about doing someone else's work for them if they're missing. At work, sometimes another teacher is sick, and then I will cover for that teacher. My boss will come and say, "Hey, can you cover "for Joe today because he's out sick? "Can you spend half an hour in his class?" We when cover for each other at school, as teachers, we each take turns doing a little bit of someone else's class in our spare time, 'cause we don't teach for the full eight hours. We only teach for about six.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "cover to cover". When you read a book cover to cover, it means that you really, really liked it. If you've just recently read a book and you really liked it, you could say, "Ah, the book was amazing. "I read it cover to cover." Now when you read a book cover to cover, it means you read the whole thing, but when you read a book, you usually do read the whole thing. So it's, I guess, just a way to emphasize that you're reading the whole thing. The last book I read, I definitely read it cover to cover. It was an excellent book. It was called "Ringworld" by Larry Niven, I think was author, a really old science fiction book, but definitely a good one. So I reread it just recently, just last week.Anyways, to review, when you cover for someone, it means you lie for them so that someone doesn't know what they're doing, or it means that you do their work for them at work. Oftentimes when, let's say there's ten people at work and one person is sick, the other nine people will cover for the other person. And when you read a book cover to cover, it means that you just like the book so much, you read it from the very, very beginning, all the way to the very, very end.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Arya. "How are you doing, sir? "Are you all right?" And my response was this, "Yes. "Sorry, the week got busy and I missed Wednesday. "There will be a new lesson tomorrow, though." "Thank you, sir, for letting me know," was Arya's reply.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase FOR THE BIRDS and the term BIRDBRAINIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase for the birds. When we say something is for the birds, we mean that it's useless, or that it has no worth. I guess I could say that it's worthless. When you say, hey, that English lesson the other day, that was for the birds. That would mean that you thought the English lesson wasn't very good, it wasn't very valuable, you didn't get a lot out of it. It's not a nice thing to say necessarily when you say something is for the birds, because you're basically saying you don't like it, and it's worthless. I watched a TV show the other day, and, honestly, it was for the birds. It wasn't very well put together. It was kind of confusing actually, and it just wasn't very useful to me. So I would say that that TV show was for the birds.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase or term I wanted to teach you today is the term birdbrain. This is something that means that someone isn't very smart. You could say that birdbrain means that you are dumb or stupid. I usually use this word to talk about myself. The other day, I lost my keys, and I'm such a birdbrain, my keys ended up being in my coat pocket. I had put my jacket on instead of my winter coat, and I couldn't find my keys. I'm such a birdbrain though, I usually put my keys in my pocket, they were just in my other jacket, so I was a bit of a birdbrain. So I guess I can use this term, it's a bit of an insult to talk about myself, but I would be a little worried about using it to talk about other people, because they might feel insulted.So to review, when something is for the birds, it means it is useless, it means it has no value, it means it is worthless. And then when you call yourself a birdbrain, you're simply saying that you're not being very smart in that moment.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohd Ags. I've asked Mr. Bob to show us Oscar's house a couple of times. And although each time he said he'd show it in the next video, he never did. I just commented yesterday that Mr. Bob has never disappointed me, but I guess there's a first time for everything. Eduardo then says it's always a pleasure to see you here, my friend, Mohd Ags, nice to see community in the comments. Very cool. And then my response, ha ha, I keep forgetting. In my defense, it's been quite wet where his house is.So Oscar does have a house, definitely, Mohd Ags. And I know I promised actually, it might have been two or three times, I promised to show his house in a video, and there it is. He does not use his house very often. In fact, the house is way out here in the flower field, because Oscar really only uses his house in the summer. Let's take a bit of a closer look at it. He uses it, because he likes the shade. So it's actually a little bit wet inside right now. We have to clean it out, and put some dry straw in it.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BITE YOUR TONGUE and BITE YOUR TONGUE!In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to bite your tongue. Now, sometimes you're chewing food and you accidentally bite your tongue, and that doesn't feel very good. It hurts quite a bit. But we use the phrase to bite your tongue to talk about when you try not to say something in a certain situation. Maybe your boss is telling you that you've done something poorly and you want to say something back to your boss. It's probably not a good idea. It's probably a good time to bite your tongue. I had this when I was a kid as well. Once my dad was a little bit annoyed with me about something, and then I said something, but I should not have done that. When I think back, I think, it probably would have been a better idea to bite my tongue than to say something, because it just made my dad a little bit more annoyed.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the same phrase, but as a command. You can say to someone, "Bite your tongue," and it basically means that you want them to stop talking. So, if someone is talking to you and they're not being very nice and you want to tell them to shut up. That's kind of a mean thing to say. You could also say, "Bite your tongue," but it's not a nice thing to say to someone. When you say, "Bite your tongue," it's very direct. It's very, it's definitely a command. It's maybe something a parent would say to a child, if they're very, very frustrated or annoyed with their child. They might say, "Bite your tongue," and it's also used a lot when people use bad words, like a parent, if a child said the F-word, for instance, a parent might say, "Hey, bite your tongue. Don't use swear words. That's bad."Anyways, to review, to bite your tongue is simply to stop yourself from talking. I guess, if you actually did bite your tongue a little bit, that does stop you from saying something, doesn't it? And when you tell someone to bite their tongue, or if you say, "Bite your tongue," it means that you want them to shut up. It means that you want them to stop saying whatever they're saying.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Liu. "After spending an afternoon at a social event, I was tuckered out. I'm not good at socializing. It's always hard for me to find topics and to keep the conversation going." And then my reply. "Social events can be exhausting."Now, I've mentioned this before a few times, that as much as I seem like this happy, friendly person here on YouTube, and that you might think that I'm really outgoing and love social events, I'm actually similar to Liu. When I go to a social event, it can be a little bit draining. We learned the English phrase to be tuckered out, which means to be really tired. Sometimes when I go to social events, at the end of it, I'm just really, really tired and exhausted, more like mentally exhausted, if you know what I mean. My favorite kind of event is the event where there's just a few people, not a lot of people just, I don't know, three or four people sitting around a campfire. That is my favorite type of event.Support the show