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Hi everyone. Welcome back to English with Max. Today we are going to look at 50

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idioms that native speakers commonly use. Some people say that learning idioms in

a foreign language isn't very important, but I disagree. You don't need to use

them yourself, but if you want to get to an advanced level in English, you should

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Okay, let's get started with the idioms. The first one is: the apple doesn't fall

far from the tree. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. We say this if a child

has similar qualities or talents to one of their parents. In practice it's

usually used for something negative. For example: Just like her father,

she's always dishonest. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. The second one is:

a bad apple. A bad apple is a person who creates problems.

We often use it if the person's behaviour has a negative influence on others.

Frank was expelled from school because his teachers said that he was a bad apple.

The third one is: to beat around the bush. To beat around the bush.

This means to talk a lot about unimportant things to avoid talking

Frank, please stop beating around the bush and tell me what the problem is.

The best of both worlds. This means a situation in which you have

the advantages of two very different things.

For example: She lives in a small village, but it isn't far from the city, so she

has the best of both worlds. Number five: to bite the bullet. To bite the bullet

means to force yourself to do something that's unpleasant or difficult. I hate

getting Pap smears, but I know they're important, so I'll just have to bite the bullet.

The next one is: a blessing in disguise. A blessing in disguise is something that

seems bad or unlucky at first, but actually results in a good outcome.

Frank got fired from his last job, but it was a blessing in disguise

because now he has a much better job working for me.

Number seven: break a leg. This is an imperative phrase. We use it

to wish somebody luck, especially before a performance on stage. I know it sounds

quite negative, but we use it ironically. It's just like saying "good luck". I heard

you had an audition later. Break a leg! Number eight: to burn one' bridges. To burn

one's bridges means to do something with the result that you cannot return to a

previous situation. Often it's because you've offended somebody. When Frank quit

his first job, he also swore at his boss, so he definitely burnt his bridges.

Number nine: By the skin of one's teeth. If you do something by the skin of your

teeth, it means that you manage to do something or succeed in doing something,

but only just. You almost fail, in other words.

Frank passed his driving test by the skin of his teeth. In other words, he almost failed.

To cost an arm and a leg simply means to be very expensive.

Frank crashed my car and it cost an arm and a leg to get it fixed.

Number eleven is: a couch potato. A couch potato is a person who is not very

active and spends a lot of time on the couch watching television.

Frank, stop being such a couch potato and go out and get some exercise.

Number twelve is: to cut corners. To cut corners means to do something as easily

or as cheaply as possible, but in a way that usually has a negative effect on

the final result. The builders cut corners when they renovated the house

and now lots of things need to be repaired. Thirteen: don't count your

chickens before they hatch. Sometimes we shorten this and we just

say "don't count your chickens". This means don't make plans based on a positive

future event that might not happen. For example, if someone says, "I think I'm

going to get a promotion at work, so I'm going to buy a new car," you could say,

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch."

Number fourteen: The elephant in the room.

The elephant in the room is an obvious fact or problem that no one wants to

talk about. For example: At the meeting today nobody mentioned the elephant in

the room, which was that our boss was clearly drunk.

Fit as a fiddle simply means in good health. Some people also use it to

mean fit and strong. I had surgery a couple of months ago, but I feel as fit

as a fiddle now. Her grandfather is almost 90, but he's fit as a fiddle.

Number sixteen: Food for thought. Food for thought is something that makes you

think carefully. My economics class today definitely gave me some food for thought.

Thank you for your suggestion. It has provided us with food for thought.

Number seventeen: to give somebody the benefit of the doubt. To give somebody the

benefit of the doubt means to treat somebody as if their words or actions

are correct or honest, even if you're not sure about it.

For example: There was a good chance that Frank was lying to me,

but I decided to give him  the benefit of the doubt.

Eighteen: to give somebody the cold shoulder. To give somebody the cold

shoulder means to treat somebody in an unfriendly way or to deliberately ignore somebody.

For example: Ethel is annoyed with Frank, so now she's giving him the cold shoulder.

The next one is: to go cold turkey. To go cold turkey means to stop

something suddenly and completely.  It's almost always used for addictions.

Sometimes if somebody's addicted to something they will gradually decrease

their consumption. But if you go cold turkey, you just stop all of a sudden.

She used to smoke two packets of cigarettes a day, but then she went cold turkey and

Number 20: to go with the flow. To go with

the flow means to just allow things to happen or to do what other people want

without trying to control what happens. I'm not going to make any plans today,

I'm just going to relax and go with the flow.

21: to grin and bear it. To grin and bear it

means to accept something that's difficult or unpleasant without complaining.

Our flight has been delayed 10 hours. We'll just have to grin and bear it.

I really don't want to go to my cousin's wedding, but I'll have to grin and bear it.

Number 22: to have a sweet tooth. To have

a sweet tooth just means to like eating sweet things, like chocolate or cake or

sweets. For example: I know it was Ethel who ate all the cookies at the party,

because she definitely has a sweet tooth.

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