The eyes have it.

Hmm?

Hi, James from www.engvid.com . Today, I'm going to teach you some idioms about eyes.

Well, not your eyes, but how we can use the word eyes in idioms to convey certain meanings

which means to give a certain meaning.

First of all, what's an idiom?

An idiom is a few words or a bunch of words that put together that may not have an obvious

meaning or a clear meaning, but once you know what they are, it actually gives you a greater

meaning to it.

So, example is - in English, we like to say it's raining cats and dogs, which doesn't

make any sense whatsoever.

Cats and dogs do not fall from the sky.

But, when you understand, it means it's a lot of rain, you're like okay, it's raining

cats and dogs, got it.

And it's because we use this shorthand for language that's full of meaning or rich with

meaning to get across a greater meaning.

Anyway, we're going to go to the board but before we do, I just wanted you to check out

my new Star Trek look, right?

Captain Kirk, we're going back to the Enterprise! 21st century.

Or the 24th century then the 21st century.

Let's go to the board.

So, Mr. E says "The eyes have it", but on my board, you're going to notice there's nothing

to do with eyes, so I'm going to read this little story to you, it's between, you know,

a little story between Mr. E and myself, and then later on, I'm going to teach you the

appropriate idioms that have the word "eye" inside of it that you can use to substitute

for the blue sections, okay?

So, I'm going to explain, you know, we'll go through the story, then we'll do the idioms,

okay, then we'll come back here and we'll make the corrections and put in the new idioms

that you've learned.

Sound like fun?

Well, let's go to the board.

So, starting off myself: The bright color of the shirt got my attention, so I bought

it.

Mr. E says: Well, you've always had good taste in clothing.

I go: No, not really.

The blue shirt I bought was so ugly it hurts to look at it.

And he says: Do you think so?

I thought I saw Keiko show a bit of romantic interest when you wore the blue shirt.

He says: Really?

I will have to watch very carefully the next time I wear this shirt and see Keiko.

Dum dum dum dum, the plot thickens, okay.

Mr E: I wouldn't try to deceive you.

James: She is very interesting.

There is a lot more to that woman which is not obvious.

Ah, an interesting story.

It's gone from clothing to romance, and I'm about to go into idioms and just destroy all

that, but anyway.

You ready?

Let's go to the board and look at what idioms I can use to replace the statements you've

just seen.

You ready?

Let's go.

So, time for me to actually explain all these idioms we're looking at and show you, you

know, some idioms we can use to replace the words we had up there.

But before I do that, I want to give a shout out, as I keep an eye out for Ronnie!

Okay Ronnie, it's your turn.

You've got to say shout out to me in the future.

Anyway, see you soon, Ron.

Okay, so anyway, let's go to the board, and on the board, I have seven idioms that will

replace the seven sentences we highlighted in blue on the board earlier on.

So, the first one I want to talk about is caught someone's eye, or to catch someone's

eye.

I think I was - when you catch somebody's eye, when catch something, alright, you catch

it.

You focus and you can catch - I think when you focus, you can catch it.

When you catch it, it's yours, sort of thing.

So, when something catches your eye, it literally takes your attention and catches it, alright?

So, to attract someone's attention.

You caught my eye, you catch my eyes, so I watch, you know, I watch whatever it is you

have.

Second: to haven an eye for something.

To have an eye - a single eye.

When you have an eye for something, it means you have a very good ability to tell what

is good quality or bad quality or what is good and what is bad.

I have the best eye - I have the best eye - I can, I have the best quality - Sorry,

I'm imitating someone else, Trump.

So, when you have a good eye for something, you can say "I have an eye for diamonds.",

so I know what a good diamond is, or I have a good eye for quality workers, I know what

a good worker is.

So, when someone has an eye for something, they can see quality.

Eyesore.

Well, if you go to the gym and you work out a lot, the next day you're going to go "Oh,

my body hurts!"

Not that it hurts, you say it's sore.

It's not in pain from like, you've injured yourself and you have to go to a doctor, it's

more that from overwork, it's sore.

Usually, the gym is a good place to get sore because you go "I did my workouts, I feel

good".

Eyesore, remember, it hurts, your eyes shouldn't really ever be sore, so if your eyes are sore

it's because something is hurting them.

Usually a person or a thing that is extremely ugly.

Notice I said a person, because yes, you can be that unattractive.

I personally think everybody's good looking in their own way, but some people, the way

they dress or act, they can become an eyesore, you know what I'm saying?

You know what I'm saying.

Okay.

But we usually use it for things, like a house can be an eyesore, bright clothing can be

an eyesore, right?

Your stylish hairdo from the 80's - an eyesore.

Keep an eye on something.

Well right now, I'm keeping an eye on you.

I'm just looking at you, yes, that's right, I look at you, just you, nobody else but you.

I keep this eye on you.

It means watch carefully, because it means I can go around the room and look around and

do other things but this eye, this eye just stays on you, okay?

Keep an eye - watch very carefully.

Now, the - pull the wool over someone's eyes.

Oh, thankfully I have a wool sweater.

I'm blind!

I cannot see!

When you pull the wool over someone's eyes, you deceive them.

It means you trick them.

You do not let them see the truth.

So, when they pull the wool over your eyes, you do not know what is going on.

Okay?

Oh, I've missed one, I'm sorry.

Some of you who have kept an eye on what I was doing probably noticed, how come he went

from three to five?

You're very smart.

Let's go to number four.

To give someone the eye, you know when you see someone go like - that's giving you the

eye.

It's to show romantic interest.

They like you.

They give you the eye.

Now, I'll go over to number seven.

Transformers, more than meets the eye.

Remember, they're cars.

They're Autobots and the Decepticons hiding in plain sight.

There is more than meets the eye.

They can change from one thing to another, but you don't know yet.

And that's why we put yet here.

So, when something is more than meets the eye, it's like if you wait long enough, you'll

see there's much more to learn or to understand if you pay attention.

Cool?

Well, now we've done these seven idioms and we've done this wonderful story.

How are we going to put them together?

I think we should go to the board and find out!

Okay, so, we've learned what the idioms are and now we're going to back to the original

- original story and we're going to put the idioms we've just worked on into the story.

You ready?

Let's go to the board.

So, originally we had, you know, we'll read the story again and then we'll see how we

can change it up.

So, "The bright color of the shirt got my attention, so I bought it.

""Well, you've always had good taste in clothing", said Mr. E. James replied, "Not really, the

blue shirt I bought was so ugly that it hurts to look at it."

Mr. E. said, "So," - sorry - "Do you think so?

I though I saw Keiko show a little bit of romantic interest when you wore the blue shirt."

James said "Really?

I will have to watch very carefully the next time I wear the shirt and see Keiko."

And then he said "No, well I wouldn't try to deceive you."

And finally, "She is very interesting.

There is more - there is a lot more to that woman that is not obvious."

So, let's - let me entertain you.

Let's see how we can make the changes and use the first one.

So, in the first one we've got "got my attention".

What do we say instead of "Something got my attention"?

I'm going to erase it because clearly we're going to change this one.

Okay, so as I'm erasing and you're thinking, what do you think it is?

Boom, like baseball, that's right.

"Caught my eye", right?

The bright color of the shirt caught my eye, so I bought it.

Good, that's the first one.

One second, there we go.

What about the next sentence?

"Well you've always had good taste in clothing."

Always had good taste in clothing, what are we going to say?

Okay, now imagine if you have a bad arm and you have a - that's right, I go here and we're

going to say your good taste - and this changes to "an eye", alright, and "an eye for" - and

now remember, an eye for clothing in this case means good taste, or you can tell the

difference between good and bad.

So, an eye for something means you know the difference between high quality and low quality

or good and bad.

Alright.

What about here?

"Not really, the blue shirt was so ugly it hurts to look at it."

Okay, you've got it.

You got it.

Oh yes, let me get rid of all of this.

And I'm going to ask you a question before I write it down.

When you work out, if you work out and go to the gym a lot, you know, you're like ugh,

really work, the next day it hurts and you go "My back is", what?

Sore!

Because it hurts.

So, we say "eyesore".

Remember, eyesore means - sore means to hurt - an eyesore means something so ugly it hurts

to look at it.

An eyesore, right?

Sorry - an eyesore.

Let's put that there.

It was an eyesore.

Almost forgot.

"Do you think so?

I thought I saw Keiko show a bit of romantic interest..."

Hm hm hm hm hm.

What would we say?

Mmhmm, once again, I'll give you the opportunity to think about it carefully, and what one,

what idiom did we use to say showing romantic interest?

Remember, giving the eye, when you give someone the eye, so Keiko was like "Ahh!", you know.

Or my favorite, when someone's bashful, bashful means like, shy, and they're like -

giving you the eye.

Keiko was giving you the eye when she saw you with that blue shirt.

And James says "Really?

I will have to watch very carefully the next time", okay?

What's that one going to be?

Do do dodo do do dodo do do dododo.

Musical interlude.

It means I'm making music for you while we wait.

So, in this case, I'm going to write -

so a long sentence here, it happens.

Okay, so "Really?

I will have to keep an eye on what happens the next time I wear this shirt and see Keiko."

Remember?

I will have to, you know, watch them, watch very carefully.

Finally, "I wouldn't try to deceive you."

What is "I wouldn't try to deceive you"?

Okay, so again I will erase the board and you will figure out what it is.

But I will give you a hint: baaah, baaah!