The proverb today is 'beauty is only skin deep. '

Okay. let's take a look at the note here.

The proverb was first discovered in a

work by Sir Thomas Overbury in 1613.

So it was one of the books that he wrote.

The original wording was 'all the carnal beauty

of my wife is but skin deep. '

All right. All the carnal.

Carnal means you know , especially to do

with flesh and especially to doing it

with the sense of like sexual desire of flesh.

So all the carnal beauty of my wife is but

skin deep or you know, is but only skin deep.

Meaning that deep down, she's not a very

deep person. Her inside,

she doesn't really have inner beauty

which we sometimes talk about when this term

you know, anytime we say something

is superficial or something, it's only

skin deep.

So most of her beauty is just on the outside.

That's what he's saying. Okay. Let's

continue. The main present-day meaning of

this proverb is that beauty is

superficial again only on the outside,

not deep or sometimes it could be used

to say anything is superficial. Okay. We

also use it a lot to emphasize a

person's character is more important. The

character inside them. You know, are they

a good person ? Are they a moral person?

That's what we mean by their. you know,

their character Their , their real

personality. Deep down inside. That's more

important than just the, just the outside.

Okay. Let's take a look at the first example here.

In the movie, Shallow Hal,

Yeah. That's going back a while now. It must

be about 15 years old, but uh it was a

very funny movie if you've never seen it,

but anyway. Let's continue. In the movie,

Shallow Hal with Jack Black,

he played Hal and Gwyneth Paltrow, she

ends up playing the main girlfriend. The

main character Hal learns the lesson

that beauty is only skin-deep. Yeah I

don't know if you ever seen this movie

where the character Hal supposedly the

movie begins where his father is dying

and you know the father tells Hal don't

ever settle for second best. Only go for

the best. So, so his whole life he only

tried to get women that were very

beautiful on the outside, very

superficial in this sense. So that's why

it's called Shallow Hal. We say people are

shallow we also mean they are kind of

superficial , and of course he didn't have

a lot of luck because he himself was not

the most attractive guy, and he was only

trying to get women that were like model

material. But of course one day, he gets stuck

in an elevator, and one, one of the

inspirational speakers kind of

hypnotizes him. So that he will only see

inner beauty and of course this is when

he finds the woman he falls in love with.

Which is played by Gwyneth Paltrow who

is a beautiful actress, but in the movie

she wore this big huge fat suit. So she

was really fat, but of course when he

first met her, he's seeing her as a very

beautiful woman. But you know later on in

the movie you know he gets the spell

sort of knocked off, and but he already

fell in love with the person she was

inside. So that was really the whole

theme of this movie. And that's what he

ends up learning.That you know, beauty is

only skin-deep, and he really loved her

for them the good person she was. All right.

Let's continue. Example number two. Don't

marry a woman only for her looks. Only

for her outside appearance. Remember,

beauty is only skin-deep. So this is

exactly the way we would use this. Okay.

Anyway, I hope it's clear. I hope you got it. Thank you for your time. Bye bye.