81: 10 Useful Idioms for English Conversations

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Isi guesses and explains 10 commonly used idioms in conversations, while Mitch explains where they came from.

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Mitch:
[0:22] So, today, we want to bring you an episode introducing everyday English idioms. And, what I've done is I've compiled some images for isi to look at and we're going to describe them for you audio listeners. And for you YouTube watchers/viewers, we're going to look at these images, and try to distinguish what the idiom is and what it means. Make sense?

Isi:
[0:52] Yeah, let's start.

Mitch:
[0:53] Let's start.

Isi:
[0:54] I have questions.

Mitch:
[0:55] Okay, so here is number one, everyday English idiom. What are you thinking?

Isi:
[1:03] Instead of a head, that person has a bowl of baked beans, as a head.

Mitch:
[1:09] Baked beans, very English. So?

Isi:
[1:13] Do you have a bean head?

Mitch:
[1:15] No.

Isi:
[1:15] You're a bean hat.

Mitch:
[1:16] A bean head, no. A bean head.

Isi:
[1:19] Could that mean that you're like, an idiot? Yeah, no?

Mitch:
[1:23] A bean head. Yeah, like a tiny brain. But no, that's not the idiom. this is an.. - Stew... you are... stew? - No, you know this idiom you use it a lot, actually. Or I use it a lot... - His head is farting? - Yeah, that's the correct idiom.

Isi:
[1:38] They're all in his body

Mitch:
[1:39] Imagine that the beans are filling up from his... up through his legs. - Full of beans! - He is...

Isi:
[1:46] That's a weird picture for it, though. Did you find that, for 'full of beans'? Did chat ChatGPT do this for you

Mitch:
[1:51] I made all these images on an AI image generator.

Isi:
[1:55] That's 'full of beans'

Mitch:
[1:57] That is the best way I could describe 'full of beans'. Okay, tell me then, what does 'full of beans' mean, and when would you use it?

Isi:
[2:05] Um... you would describe a person or yourself.

Mitch:
[2:10] Yeah.

Isi:
[2:11] I think you don't really say it about yourself.

Mitch:
[2:13] No.

Isi:
[2:14] More about others. - Yeah. - If someone is in a very good mood, very active, busy, maybe a bit like, dancing around.

Mitch:
[2:24] Exactly.

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