You've Never Heard These 5 English Idioms Before

Hey man, what's up? Spill your guts. How was your last interview? Bad man. I think I'm beating a dead horse Don't worry my friend. There's always more than one way to skin a cat. Whoa Spill your guts beating a horse skinning a cat What are they talking about? Hello, awesome people and welcome back to English fluency with Albert in this lesson We're going to look at some very strange idioms that believe it or not Every English speaker uses during their everyday natural Conversations as always at the end of this video You're also going to find a final quiz so you can test how many you remember. Let's begin with the first one Bite your tongue. I think I could actually discipline myself to bite my tongue And not to do the things I want to do genuinely the best thing to do is just to bite your tongue They're not worth your energy Janet Jackson opened up about the Super Bowl incident and didn't bite her tongue when it came to the disparity of blame This idiom basically means that you want to speak you want to say your opinion But you stop yourself and you say nothing to avoid saying something inappropriate or offensive So quite literally you bite your tongue with your teeth and This is the tongue this thumb here. This is the thumb And you bite it This way you can't talk, but don't worry. Nobody does it literally, right? For example, you disagree with our decision at work But you decide to bite your tongue to avoid useless arguments on the other hand my friend never bite your tongue on things that are important to you, but if something is small and Unimportant you might want to bite your tongue and avoid Making a mountain out of a molehill, you know, they're saying making a mountain out of a molehill It means to make a big deal about something minor There's no sense making a mountain out of a molehill, right? Is the situation a big deal? Yes No, do you think people are making a mountain out of a molehill? Let me know this idiom is creating a mountain of problems for something very small Like a molehill. What's a molehill? well These are molehills. They are made by little furry creatures. They're called moles Now compare a molehill with a mountain and you see why you say you're creating big Problems out of something very small if for example you feel sick Which means you don't feel well and you're making a tragedy But then they may tell you you've just got a cold Stop making a mountain out of a molehill Speaking of being sick. Here is the next one to be sick of it Like by the time you're like in your teens You're just like sick of it and you want to get out and live your life Nova could say Adrienne Everhart a million times and I would not get sick of it Even if you think about I need to get out of here. I'm sick of being here people need to see that on your face You can use this idiom to say you don't like something that is Constantly in front of you and for this reason just seeing it Makes you sick This idiom is really really used because well, there are a lot of things we don't like Yet we have to do them or see them Anyway, for example if at work you have to do a task very repetitive You can say I'm sick of it This is too repetitive or again If you want to change your habits, you can say I'm sick of this routine I want something different for a change. Do you like routines? I don't like them very much because you know when you do something over and over eventually you need a change otherwise, it's like Beating a dead horse Now you might be thinking Steve bro. You've already covered this argument. You're beating a dead horse If over time there's still no attraction you just beating a dead horse While you're at it, maybe Google beating a dead horse The phrase Why would you beat a dead horse? Mr. Chuck? That that doesn't sound nice What an embarrassing idiom. I don't want you to take it literally. Alright, nobody is going around Beating any horse English people are crazy But not this much this idiom only means talking about the same thing without doing anything about it because When an animal is dead You can't move it. No matter how much you beat it This is the logic. Can you can you see how how sick this is? Einstein said the same thing much more elegantly Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result Same meaning no horse say you have to write a school assessment But after writing the first paragraph You just don't know how to continue Then you can say I better stop beating a dead horse and moving on with the rest of the assessment Tom keeps trying to get his book published, but I think he's beating a dead horse poor Tom He tried many times already Unfortunately, they won't publish his book If you're thinking that this idiom is bad Wait till you hear the next one. The next idiom is even more popular and even more strange Yeah Spill your guts Just ask and you never know that they might be ready to spill their guts about how great you know Architecture is all you had to do Was stare at him for just a couple of seconds and he'd spill his guts about whatever it is He was trying to hide This means that as tempting as it may be it's important not to spill your guts out to him because if you do you could Send them running This disgusting idiom is used to ask someone to share all the details About something the gut is this part here your stomach and the guts Plural is what's inside? So when you're asking someone to spill your guts You're asking to take everything off All right Every little detail in other words It means you are very curious and you're asking the other person to tell you Everything in order to satisfy your curiosity Once again, why use guts to talk about something so normal, but I'm probably beating a dead horse Susan says she was seeing someone and Lily her best friend asked her to spill her guts Lily was very curious and she wanted to know all the little juicy details Like who the guy is how did they meet and so on during your next job interview? Don't spill your guts on every previous experience you had. This is also very important advice because During a job interview You only want to say what's important for the position you want if you're applying as an accountant You don't need to tell them that you worked at McDonald's three years ago. That would be like Spilling your guts Revealing useless information. All right I said I had five idioms, but actually there's one more that I want to share It's also very terrifying if you want to stop watching this is the right moment Are you ready? There's more than one way to skin a cat Alright, so there's always more than one way in this case three different ways to skin the cat Hopefully you'll find this technique useful You just have to think about the fact that there are More than there's many ways you can skin a cat and that has kind of been a theme of growing this company Put simply this idiom only means that there are more ways than one to achieve a goal like apparently There are more than one ways to take the skin off a cat. I know right? Why does it need to be so gruesome? Why use such a terrifying idiom? If you want to grow your muscles, you don't need to get a gym membership there's more than one way to skin a cat because you can always train outdoors or you can run or you can play a Team sport even so there's definitely more than one way. All right, let's see how many idioms you remember Number one Mary said something you didn't like but you decided to say nothing Which idiom did you use and the answer was I? Better bite my tongue because this idiom is perfect when you prefer to say nothing to avoid Arguing or offending. All right, number two Which idiom would you use to say you can learn English in many ways and the answer? Of course was there's more than one way to skin a cat if you guessed it Well done, my friend now number three stop beating a dead horse What does it mean and the answer was stop wasting your energy on something useless This was a little more difficult. So if you guessed it Congratulations, my friend. You've just learned six strange idioms Native speakers use every day But on the other hand, none of these idioms are useful if you don't learn to express your opinions Properly first, what's the best way to lower the tension during an argument? What expressions should you avoid at all costs this video shows you everything you need to know? Yeah, you're supposed to kick now Cheers