do you say? Do you know what all these phrases mean? Maybe you know what we mean by “what's

up” but then there are many more phrases that you can create out of the word “what”.

Such a simple word but it can help you talk in many different ways. So watch this complete

lesson with me in order to learn 10 amazing conversational phrases with the word “what”.

My name is Michelle and you're watching me on Let's Talk. Subscribe to our channel, watch

the complete video and you can also watch some more videos. Okay so let's get started

with the first question that we have today, the first question is so “what's the catch?”.

Well what do you think this means? Are we really talking about a physical catch? No

we're not talking about a physical catch here, we're talking about a trap, oh yes! The word

catch means trap here. Like what's the trap, okay? So just imagine if your friend wants

to sell his amazing car which has a really good condition for just two thousand dollars

you’d be like okay, what's the catch? so you doubt the fact that your friend wants

maybe some favor in return from you or he's trying to lay a trap for you, okay? Possibly

the car is faulty, it's got some problem and that's why he just wants to sell it off. Okay

in such a situation you can always say what's the catch? So that's how you can use this

phrase. Now let's look at the next one, the next one is “what's the drill? Okay now

what is a drill in general? Have you seen a drilling machine? It makes a funny sound

and it's quite persistent. It goes on drilling for some time. So in this question the word

drill means procedure, oh yes! What's the procedure? But you know saying procedure is

so boring, so let's make it more fun and instead say, what's the drill? Now let's say that

you want to order a new computer for your company so you ask your friend, your colleague

“hey I want to order a new computer for our company what's the drill?” What's the

procedure? So use this question in order to make your boring question very interesting.

Let's look at the next one, “what do you say?” Oh! What did I just say? Well I only

said the same phrase in a more natural manner. So instead of saying, what do you say? You

can say, “What do you say”, okay? Which would look more like, “whadayasay”. So

think of that as one word, don't think of it as four words. Now try and say this, “what

do you say?” Well that sounds so much more natural and cooler. Okay now coming to the

meaning, what does it really mean? “What do you say?” What do you mean by this? So

let's say that you're planning a trip and you want your friends opinion if they want

to join you, so you could say that hey I'm going shopping on Saturday and then I'm hitting

the beach on Sunday, I'd love you to join me, what do you say? Okay so that's another

way of asking someone's opinion. Alright, much cooler actually. The next one we have

is “what goes around comes around”. Think of a circle, a circle has no end. Anything

which is at this point, will come back to it, alright? So this is how people describe

life sometimes, more like karma, I don't know if, I don't really much believe in karma but

people often say that how you do to others is what you get in return sometime later in

your life. So if you do bad to somebody it happens to you as well and if you do good

to someone that also comes back to you. So if you're in a situation where your friend

is let's say, you know making fun of you and is really irritating you maybe in a funny

way you could tell them, “hey what goes around comes around I'll come back with the

revenge.” So that's the way it is used, what goes around comes around. As in whatever

you do, will happen to you in the future as some people believe. Okay the next one we

have is, “what do I owe you? Aha! So again I said the same phrase but something like

this so instead of saying what I said whada, right. So I would say this whenever you say

what do, whenever you have what do, it becomes whatda, yes with a “da” sound. So let's

see how we'll say this okay now look at this as one question, “whadaiowya”.

What do I owe you? Which means “how much do I need to pay you?” Okay but this is

a much more informal way of saying this. So let's say you go to the bar and you've had

like two or three drinks and you're telling the bartender like, “how much do I need

to pay you?” So instead of saying that you could tell the bartender “what do I owe

you?” okay? So that's another way of saying ‘how much do I need to pay you’, again

a cooler and a more interesting way. The next one we have is, “What's eating him?” Definitely

you don't have a shark eating anybody but here we are talking about someone who looks

very upset or angry. So if you see a person who's suddenly upset or angry and you want

to inquire, inquire about them like why is this person so angry or why is this person

so sad. You might say, “hey, what's eating him?” Like why is he so irritated or why

is he so frustrated? So what's eating him is used for a frustrated person or an angry

looking upset person. Alright with that we move to the next one, “what are you getting

at? or “what are you driving at?” So oftentimes it happens that when we are talking to people,

they happen to talk about everything except the most important part and you're not able

to understand like what are they really trying to say? What is the conclusion, what is the

meaning? So basically you go like, “what do you really want to say?” So to say the

same thing instead of saying what do you really want to say, you could say, “what are you

getting at?” or “what you driving at? So what's the main point of your conversation?

Alright now the last, the next one we have is, “what's done is done”. Okay this is

used about past incidences so if you know that someone is talking about their past and

they are regretting like, “oh, I wish I had gone to that place on that day, but I'm

so sad I couldn't just go there and now the sale has finished.” So for that person because

they are regretting you could say, “hey buddy, what's done is done.” Which means

it cannot be changed anymore, great! It cannot be changed, great! The next one is, “what's

with”. Okay so this one is used when you're talking about someone like maybe when you're

talking about a person, okay when you think that they are again looking sort of strange,

acting strange you could say what's with him or her like what happened to them. But you

can also use “what's with” to talk about an object. Like let's say you're in your office

and you want to use the copy machine but you know that it got broken a few days back so

you ask your colleague, “hey what's with the copy machine, like is it working anymore?

So you can use it with objects. The next one is “what's the deal with”. Okay so what's

the deal with it's very similar to what's with. But here you're using it to find out

the status of something like is it working anymore or what's up, what's the progress?

So if you want to say what's the progress? Instead of saying that you could say, “what's

the deal with… blah-blah-blah.” So this is used for progress, to check the progress

or the status of something. So if you want to check the progress or status of a project,

a common project that you were doing with your classmate, you could be like, “hey

what's the deal with the school project?” Like what's the progress, are you doing anything

about it? Okay now I have already told you ten questions that you can make with “what”

but I have a bonus for you in the end because you stayed so far. So for that I have the

last one, “what's cooking”. So this is usually used to ask someone, what's up? So

now that we already have an app called WhatsApp we can start and use newer phrases to ask

“what's up”. So instead of saying, “how are you, what's up?” you could say, “So,

what's cooking?” like what's happening. So another way of saying what's up or what's

happening is “what's cooking”. Okay so you could ask your friend hey what's cooking

and he'd be like you know nothing much just doing my English homework. But you can also

use this between two people you know if you see two people and they appear quite romantic

to you and you think that maybe they're seeing each other but they haven't told you could

say, “hey what's cooking between you and John?” So that's another way of asking,

“so what's up between you both, re you guys dating or seeing each other?” Okay now when

that we are here at the end of the lesson and today you have learned some awesome phrases

that you can make and use with the word “what”, so “what” can do much more than what you

thought so far. So thank you so much for staying tuned with me come back for more lessons this

is Michelle, see you very soon. Till then enjoy and keep learning English, bye-bye.