Name: 健康と医学からの10の英語イディオム (10 English Idioms from Health & Medicine)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:21:30.000Z
Duration: 9 min 31 s
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In today's video, I'm going to give you a few idioms from the health and medicine world.

Now, of course, you know idioms are collection of words that may or may not mean exactly

So, these idioms can be literal, means... meaning they mean what they say, or they can

"To give someone or to give something a black eye".

Now, if you punch somebody right in the face... right in the eye, it will get all black and

A "bruise" is, like, when something goes black; or if you go hit here and it gets all blue

But "to give someone a black eye" can also mean to hurt someone's reputation.

So, for example, a reporter misrepresented a certain story, and it turned out that this

story was false, and so he... this reporter gave the network or gave the news channel

a black eye, which means that their reputation is a little bit questionable; now people maybe

It could happen with a company, a government office, anything.

If you do it to a person, you give someone a black eye means you hurt his or her reputation.

So, a pill is like a little thing... when you're sick, you take a pill, you swallow

it and it's... it usually doesn't taste good.

If you don't take it with water and drink it quickly, it's very bitter.

But we also use this idiom to mean that something is very difficult to accept.

So, let's say I run a big company and I have to... it's a family company and I have a lot

of staff, and I like all my staff and they like me, but the company is not doing very

well financially, so I have to lay off; I have to fire a bunch of people, and that is

And they don't want to have to go, but they have to.

A more common example... let me give you another one: I work as an editor and sometimes people

bring me their writing, and some people are just not very good writers, and so I have

to tell them they're not very good writers, and that's a very bitter pill for them to

swallow; they have a very difficult time accepting it.

So, when you have a fever; when your temperature is too high inside, you're sweating - it means

water is coming out of you, but you're cold at the same time.

But we also use this idiom when we're afraid of something or we're very nervous about something.

So, I was walking with my girlfriend down the street, and then I saw my other girlfriend

And suddenly I broke out in a cold sweat.

And my girlfriend said: "What's wrong?" and I said: "Nothing."

But she could see that it's a cold sweat - it means I'm afraid of something, and then she

figured out what happened and I got into trouble.

"A taste" or "a dose of one's own medicine".

So, the more common one is "taste", but sometimes you'll hear "dose".

A "dose" is basically a portion, but we use it for a sickness.

So: "a taste of one's own medicine"... when you take medicine, you take a dosage.

The amount that you have to take of the medicine.

But as an idiom, what we talk about is when you do something, and it's usually something

negative, to somebody or to other people, and then suddenly that same thing is done

to you - then that means you're getting a taste of your own medicine.

So, if I say some bad things about this person, and I spread it around and I tell everybody:

"Oh, yeah, this person did this or that", and everybody thinks: "Okay, whatever."

And then somebody says it about me - everybody understands that I got a dose of my own medicine.

I shouldn't be talking about other people, because I don't like it when it happens to

me; when somebody says something about me.

If you do something bad to other people, keep in mind it may happen to you, and you'll have

a taste of your own medicine and it doesn't taste good.

If you cut yourself, and your skin opens and you're bleeding, that is a wound.

Now, if you take salt, and you put salt and rub it in that wound, it's very, very painful.

"To rub salt in someone's wound" means to... if somebody's in a bad situation, if somebody's

So, for example, my friend Bill just got fired from his job, so he's really depressed and

And then his wife came to him and said she's cheating on him with somebody and she wants

So, she already knows he's in a bad situation, and she comes and rubs salt on it; she makes

it even worse, and tells him he's worthless and that's why she's leaving him because he

She's making it worse; she's rubbing salt in his wound.

And, again, they're all from health, so I'll go through each one.

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健康と医学からの10の英語イディオム (10 English Idioms from Health & Medicine)

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