3 idioms that don't make sense

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@matlindell5022
@matlindell5022 11 ай бұрын
Bob’s your uncle 😂
@user-jf7lj6gh8e
@user-jf7lj6gh8e 3 күн бұрын
I'm tired like a dog 😂 I'm hungry like a wolf 🐺
@fundatunc
@fundatunc 11 ай бұрын
I'm spying on Mark since approximately for 4 years, and I enjoyed ever since ! The German says ''I wish you neck and leg broke '' wishing for someone a good luck.
@wordswortherY
@wordswortherY 11 ай бұрын
Water under the bridge! 😂😂
@abdelilahjamali9099
@abdelilahjamali9099 11 ай бұрын
Hey Mark! In our context, we say only one of these three idioms: "sleep like a baby", because they sleep rapidly and deeply many times in one day. Some people can't sleep without using drugs. Personally, I usually sleep seven hours like a baby. God bless you!
@maya.7057
@maya.7057 Ай бұрын
Mark, I think I can explain why the idiom "to sleep like a baby" does have sense. Of course some babies can be very restless and they might not let their parents to sleep all the night. But when a baby is sleeping their face is completely tranquil, absolutely unanxcious. You can feel that that creature still hasn't had any troubles, bad thoughts or hard times. They can sometimes smile sleeping. They are still like in a different world that is a far cry from the real world with all that we have in it. This period is short, it really lasts while people in their baby's period of life. Adults never have that kind of expression on their face when sleeping. We're full of heavy thoughts and can't probably switch ourselves off of the real life even when sleeping. When you say "I slept like a baby" it means "I slept as if there were no troubles in my life. Nothing bad, no hard experience". People usually say this phrase being guests at someone's place and spending a night there. The context is usually like that. The people usually ask you in the morning: "How did you sleep?" And you say to them - "Great! I slept like a baby". This is a compliment to those people that you felt so safe and comfortable in your bed in their house that you were sleeping peacefully and serenely. Just like a baby. The idiom 'to sleep like a log" is easy to understand but in my opinion it has a different sensation. For me it relates to the deep sleeping without any dreams nearly being unconscious. It's appropriate for a situation when a person is dead tired and completely worn out. Or if a person is very drunk, just hammered. In that case a person will crash and just pass out. No dreams or feelings. A person just like immediately falls through into a deep black pit till morning. A person in that state won't wake up having a horrible thounderstorm behind the window. Nothing is able to force to wake them up because they're just like a log at that moment :) Not like a baby :) Thank you very much, Mark! You always give food for thought in your videos! :)
@MadEnglishTV
@MadEnglishTV Ай бұрын
Awesome explanation! 😎
@rawanddzaee783
@rawanddzaee783 11 ай бұрын
Thanks Mark, can you make a video about the difference of block and neighborhood and community!! How can we use then and what are the differences please 💟
@alirezaesmaeeli9834
@alirezaesmaeeli9834 11 ай бұрын
I already know these idioms. The weirdest one is to break a leg, me, personally, can't figure it out. ❤
@ananavarro99
@ananavarro99 11 ай бұрын
No more rain in Canada
@manoranjanborgohain5412
@manoranjanborgohain5412 10 ай бұрын
Seems like Alberta back to summer 😊 good to see y’a… thanks for the idioms, actually the coverage times is also perfect to me.. have a good rest of the day..
@sergboorow5868
@sergboorow5868 11 ай бұрын
In russian language there's an equivalent to an idiom, "break a leg" and the direct translation might have sounded something like, "neither fluff nor a feather" (I assume the full phrase must have been sth like, "I wish you get neither fluff nor a feather") which likewise doesn't have too much sense. But unlike the English idiom which is self-sufficient and doesn't need a respond, when in russian smb wishes you good luck by saying, "neither fluff nor a feather" that person who was told this expression supposed to answer sth like, "Get the hell out of here". And so it's like a simple math two negative statements being added to each other equal a positive outcome.
@alirezasadeghifar3815
@alirezasadeghifar3815 11 ай бұрын
Thank you Mark!! Each video teaches me lots of words, it's not just the idioms, I learn/re-learn lots of words as well.
@gba1514
@gba1514 11 ай бұрын
Hey Prof, seeing you in good shape and in a funny mood is so good. Please don't stop; make a video at least once a week, for crying out loud!)))))))))))))))😅😂😂
@golsas4038
@golsas4038 11 ай бұрын
Hi mark, yeah I heard of these idioms, no I don’t sweat a lot even when I workout but I know people who sweat a lot , thanks and take care 😊
@amjadissa8443
@amjadissa8443 11 ай бұрын
Tell to the marines !
@kalai7472
@kalai7472 10 ай бұрын
Thank you so much teacher!🙋‍♀️👍👏 Great idioms !😊 Happy weekend!😃
@gabrielebarba-iv5bs
@gabrielebarba-iv5bs 11 ай бұрын
After much time, I return to watch your videos Mark and they are always funny. Thank you.
@user-tu4qf5vj8m
@user-tu4qf5vj8m 11 ай бұрын
"To go bananas" is another weird one
@Al_Gore
@Al_Gore 11 ай бұрын
TIMBER))) I ('ve) been working like a dog, and I'll be sleeping like a log!)
@atticusfilmore4851
@atticusfilmore4851 10 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@mirzaartcanada23
@mirzaartcanada23 11 ай бұрын
Wonderful Sir
@yongluo1873
@yongluo1873 10 ай бұрын
thank you teacher !
@gianpierocostamagna9934
@gianpierocostamagna9934 11 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@jolmj6217
@jolmj6217 10 ай бұрын
On Poland we also say break yours legs.
@pman1368
@pman1368 11 ай бұрын
i usually say i slept like a rock
@farroyo85
@farroyo85 11 ай бұрын
I love you country and I love your videos thanks for that
@tamlinhhuyenbi999
@tamlinhhuyenbi999 11 ай бұрын
Can you tell us: from where did you learn Idioms and Expressions? At school (from Teachers, professors) or from society (when people talks in English everyday)? And usually, how many Idioms that an American or British native speaker can know and use naturally when they communicate with other people in daily life? Thanks for your reply and explanation soon.
@SiddSen
@SiddSen 11 ай бұрын
The cat's pyjamas.. 😁
@ericbechler9903
@ericbechler9903 11 ай бұрын
nice
@user-rx9uc7ol5y
@user-rx9uc7ol5y 11 ай бұрын
Babies sleep happily without any heavy thoughts to worry about. So if someone sleeps like a baby he is not burdened by something to worry about. So this happy one just enjoys sleeping
@NeonayIndoril
@NeonayIndoril 11 ай бұрын
It you really ask... 1. the pigs are sweating. but it means something else. pigs love to be wet and love to lie in puddles. this helps them to cool the body. therefore, to sweat like a pig is to be absolutely wet in hot weather. 2. sleep like a baby. meaning a carefree calm sleep, when you don’t have to rush anywhere or worry about something. P.s. about breaking a leg. our people also have a very strange wish for good luck .... when you are going to do something important or exciting, a person can tell you: -well, neither fluff nor feather... and you have to answer this: -to crap! (Dash it) Anf ritual done... Now you be have lucky!.... this can also be explained by this very old expression that comes from the wish for a successful hunt blah blah.... but it also looks strange ahaahah
@otteronline6495
@otteronline6495 11 ай бұрын
The phrase 'lie through your teeth' is probably the same kind of idiom
@hzkplayz4925
@hzkplayz4925 11 ай бұрын
I sweat like a horse.
@Al_Gore
@Al_Gore 11 ай бұрын
Tell it to the fish
@user-xl9eg2gn4l
@user-xl9eg2gn4l 10 ай бұрын
I'm interested
@moalmasi
@moalmasi 11 ай бұрын
Sleep like a baby makes sense because babies do not have worries and stresses. Maybe!!! Thanks
@sabrinasabi4177
@sabrinasabi4177 11 ай бұрын
Put one's foot in one's mouth, twist one's arm, play it with ear, bite a bullet, it rains cats and dogs, take a rain check, face the music, driving me up the wall, getting under one's skin or hair, leave someone out to dry , throw someone under the bus . Out for the count ants in one's pants, cat on a hot tin roof , saying someone is completely nuts ( crazy) , I'm not working for peanuts which means I'm not working for no money. Pigtails 😊 bee's knees, taking the biscuits, dog's bollocks ( sorry for this one , it's rude), which means the best of something, fit as a fiddle, apple of the eye, knock them Dead,
@calireu
@calireu 11 ай бұрын
Pigs don't sweat
@alexandralexander6138
@alexandralexander6138 10 ай бұрын
butter me up
@innazhurav9622
@innazhurav9622 10 ай бұрын
Sleep like a log😂, sounds rude for me, but it's more true, cause babies wake up often at night.
@alirezasadeghifar3815
@alirezasadeghifar3815 10 ай бұрын
In persian we say: scared like a dog. It doesn't make sense at all. Dogs are brave animals, aren't they?
@fho85
@fho85 11 ай бұрын
Of course I was Spying 👀 on you but how did you know that 😮
@artyomd8842
@artyomd8842 11 ай бұрын
I've been always thinking that sweating like a pig refered to the fact that overweight people sweat more, and the word pig is offensively related to the them. Which I never endorsed, but this totally made sense to me. And that is why I've been always avoiding using this idiom. So maybe I understood this incorrectly and it has absolutely nothing to do with that offensive meaning, and I can start using it, lol.
@sidimohamedelghassem6364
@sidimohamedelghassem6364 11 ай бұрын
رجع بخفي حنين
@huasongyin3711
@huasongyin3711 11 ай бұрын
About half of English idioms do not make sense to me, like raining dogs and cats
@mahdifiroozgah5503
@mahdifiroozgah5503 11 ай бұрын
It makes sense when we say sleep like a baby. Because babies have no concern in life but adults have. So they sleep tight like a log
@kamleshsainiindia
@kamleshsainiindia 11 ай бұрын
Is this idiom grametically correct and what it means? "I can make myself understood."
@abdulyare6083
@abdulyare6083 11 ай бұрын
I work like a dog . Means hardworking. I neve seen a dog working 😂😂😂 an other one is CATFISHING. I don’t know if cats go fishing .
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