Lesson 5 | Idioms 13 - 15

Welcome to episode five of English idioms with teacher Tiffany. The weekly series made just to help you guys understand and learn how to use English idioms. Today we're gonna learn three new English idioms. So let's jump right in. All right, now the first idiom we are going to learn today is go in one ear and out the other. Now we use this idiom when someone pays no attention to something being said to them and forgets about it immediately, okay? All right, so this is something that we use to refer to children a lot as teachers, okay? So again, sometimes children when they're in class, they don't wanna hear the teacher, especially children that are going through puberty, okay? That period of teenage years when young people have their own opinion and they don't necessarily want to listen to the teacher. When we speak to them, it goes in the one ear and out the other. Now not all kids, but it happens sometimes. Now this can still apply for adults as well, okay? Whenever you're telling someone something, but they're not listening to you, it's going in and out the other. So in one ear and out the other, okay? All right, so let's look at our first example sentence. Here we go. The first sentence is, the advice from his mother about good study habits will often go in one ear and out the other. Again, like I mentioned before, with young people sometimes they don't necessarily wanna listen or hear the advice from their teacher or from their parents or someone in authority over them, okay, that's the case for this sentence, all right? Now the next sentence is, the teacher's words to the students went in one ear and out the other. Again, similar to the first thing that I explained to you guys, okay? And last we have, whatever he tells me seems to go in one ear and out the other, okay? So in this situation, the person is saying that someone is talking to them, but they're really not paying attention. So this person talking to them, their words are going in one ear and out the other because this person is not paying attention, okay? So again, the idiom is, go in one ear and out the other, okay? All right, now our next idiom is, got a big mouth. Once again, got a big mouth. Now this is used when someone says things that are meant to be kept secret, okay? So very easy to understand. There's some secret information and you tell your friend, right? But your friend can't hold it in. Your friend starts telling everyone about the secret. Got a big mouth. That's the easiest way to understand it. They tell the secret all the time. Got a big mouth, okay? Now, the first example sentence is, that Shirley has got a big mouth. I don't know why I tell her anything. Again, saying that Shirley tells secrets, okay? All right, number two. He has a big mouth, so be careful. Again, it's saying that he will tell your secret so you need to be very careful, okay? All right, one second, we got an alarm going off here. All right, now our third example. The third example is, the little girl had a big mouth so her friends did not want to tell her the secret. Again, this little girl can't keep a secret so her friends didn't want to talk to her or give her any information, okay? All right, now we're gonna go to the next idiom. The next idiom is, got a sharp tongue. Once again, got a sharp tongue. Now, this means to say things which are unkind though often clever, okay? So, a person may be trying to be funny but the words they are using are really not nice, okay? So, let's look at the first example. Here we go. Despite her sharp tongue, she inspires loyalty from her friends. Again, having a sharp tongue means your words are not really kind even though they may be a little bit clever or witty but it's saying this person still has a lot of friends. They're loyal to her because even though she can be unkind, she's still a good friend, okay? All right, number two. My teacher had a sharp tongue. Again, the teacher may have said many unkind things, okay, to that person. All right, and finally we have, the boy had a sharp tongue so his mom was always angry. All right, so again, the boy would always say things that were not good, they were unkind, trying to be funny but his mom was not happy about that. So, we say, his mom got angry because of his sharp tongue. All right, I hope you guys learned a lot from these idioms today. Remember, we learned three idioms. I want you to remember to try to use them at least one time this week and I will talk to you guys in the next episode.