Name: イディオム｜会話で使えるイディオム5選｜レイチェルの英語 (Idioms | Learn 5 English Idioms in Conversation | Rachel’s English)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:57:51.000Z
Duration: 12 min 7 s
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Hey guys! Welcome to another episode of  Idioms We Heard This Week.

Today, we're going to discuss some  real idioms that we heard and used this week.

Now, this isn't really an idiom, but it's an  interesting way to use a word.

So, so many words in American English  have different uses, different meanings,

What do you think of when you hear the word ‘waffle’?

Oh I thought of crappy frozen Eggo breakfast. Okay,

so it can be homemade and delicious it can be less good and frozen,

but a lot of people probably think first of the food.

But then you used it in a different way this week.

- Going back and forth.  - That's a hard word, yeah, let's use a simpler word.

So we were talking about potty training with Stoney who's two years and four months and it's time to do it.

But I was waffling, I was feeling like, yes, it's time to do it

but, oh, it's going to be so hard maybe we can put it off for a little bit.

And do we do it for the nighttime potty training at the same time?

but also I wish it wasn't and so I was waffling a little bit. I was going back and forth.

Now another thing that has been a phenomenon sort of recently is the idea of waffling something.

- Do you know what I’m talking about? - No

It's like putting all sorts of different foods in a waffle iron.

-To see what happens. -I did not that's a thing.

Okay, I’m going to put a link to that, in the description below.

I'm very sure I can find a video of someone  putting weird things in a waffle iron.

appliance that you use to make waffles at home.

Another word like that where it's a single word,

single spelling, but it has lots of different ways it's used is the word

so we're watching the NBA playoffs, by the time this

goes live, perhaps a champion will have been

declared already, but it's still playoff time now.

- And this player’s for the Celtics, right? - Right.

Boston Celtics, and his last name is smart.

And we were watching the game a couple  nights ago and something happened.

Which is hilarious because his last name is smart.

But what that means is if something smarts,

I think it can be both physical and emotional, don't you?

So if it smarts, like, let's say you scrape  your knee on cement

if you run into your ex-boyfriend with his new girlfriend

that might smart, that might hurt emotionally.

- It's a little bit of an ouch. Or an ‘Ooh, that stings.’  - Yeah.

Stings, that's a good way, physically and  emotionally, to describe it.

It has another meaning completely unrelated which I think of when I think of the way someone dresses.

I would say, clean lines, simple, chic, sophisticated.

Yeah, so smart can be used a couple different ways.

An idiom that I heard this week, I was talking with my friend

and he was saying how she does  most of the parenting in their family.

‘she does the lion’s share’ of the parenting.

‘The lion's share’ is the majority of.

So, let's say you're working on a project

they're too busy, they're not really focused on it, you end up doing the lion's share of the work

and you hope that your professor notices  because you want to get credit for that.

David, can you think of any other idioms with lion?

So I thought of another one which is ‘into the lion's den’

and so we use that to say that you're going into a  hostile environment in one way or another.

So maybe you know that you're going  to do a presentation at work

with the knowledge that it's kind of, you're pushing things, or you're not, you're pretty sure it's going

to be not well-received, you would say…

Is it with the bosses who are a little bit  standoffish and difficult to get around?

So you might say to a friend the night before: Yeah, I'm headed into a lion's den with this one.

We talk about home court advantage in the in the NBA playoffs.

And so the Sixers were in Boston  and it was like being in a lion's den.

They were taunting and being merciless and really

jeering and just being, just really, really harsh.

- So the Sixers were in the lion’s den.  - A hostile environment.

So, I'm in a Facebook group and someone was.

posted something saying someone just  told me I had a chip on my shoulder

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