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(公開) 3月31日（火曜日）英会話　Live Lesson

I’ve recently been blessed with a baby, so my life is chaos.

I was blessed by great parents.

I have been blessed by great parents.

1. Bless you!
Say this when someone sneezes.

2. parents = a father and a mother

3. Like father, like son.

4. Necessity is the mother of invention.
必要は発明の母。

5. mother nature: 母なる自然

6. mama's boy = マザコン
He’s a mama’s boy.

7. sb's whipping boy=〔身代わりとして〕むちを打たれる少年,〔他人の罪の犠牲になる〕身代わり

7b. scapegoat【他動】～を身代わりにする、～に罪を負わせる

8. Attaboy!  よくやった、いいぞ、その調子だ、うまい、見事だ、あっぱれだ
attagirl = よくやった、いいぞ、その調子だ、うまい、見事だ、あっぱれだ

9. Don’t call a black person “boy”. Black people will take it as an insult.

10. The boys in blue. = The police.

11. I have the blues.

12. to talk until you are blue in the face = to talk a lot
I talked to her until I was blue in the face, but I could not change her mind.

13. Why the long face? = Why are you sad?

14. It's as plain as the nose on your face.=It’s clear.

15. a brown-noser = a yes man, someone who kisses a teacher or superior’s ass.
VERB: to brown-nose (sb)
Stop brown-nosing.

16. to kiss someone’s ass = an ass-kisser = a brown-noser
He’s always kissing the boss’s ass.
He’s always brown-nosing the boss.
He’s always sucking up to the boss.

17. Kiss my ass! = 死ね！

18. be cooperative = to be helpful

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to release  = to tell the public information that they don’t know
to announce = to tell the public new information
a prevailing theory = most popular theory
explore: 探検する, to think about
We are exploring other possibilities.
to reach an impasse = to reach a deadlock
powers = nuclear powers (USA, UK, France, USSR, CHINA)
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obesity
obese
fat
overweight 
heavy
plump = 肉付きの良い、太り気味の、ふっくらした
pudgy ずんぐりした
chubby まるまると太った、丸ぽちゃの
healthy = a euphemism for FAT


NEG: He's a blimp.

A euphemism is a softer way of saying something that may offend someone.
婉曲表現とは、人の気に障りそうなことを言う場合の控えめな言い方だ。

euphemism 婉曲語句

Idioms:
to chew the fat = to chat
Fat chance! = The chance is low.
He has a thin chance of winning.  = The chance is low.

It's not over until the fat lady sings.  = The game is not over yet!

I'm a slave to the baby.

Put the lid on. 
Put the cap on.   
Put the cork in. 
Put the cover on. 

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1. What does that have to do with the price of ~ in ~?
=どういう関係。

2. I don't understand that at all. = It's Greek to me. 

3. I'll pay for me, and you pay for you. = Let’s go Dutch. 

4. If you drink and become brave we call that “Dutch Courage."

5. If I accidentally say "shit" or "fuck" how can I apologize?
Pardon my French.

6. They kissed with tongues. = The French-kissed.

7. If you leave a party without thanking the host, that’s called “taking one’s French leave”.

BONUS not connected to nationality.
 

8. He dropped the F-bomb.
He said "fuck". = He dropped the F-bomb.
He dropped F-bombs left and right. =
He said the F word many times.
 

9. ”Fuck you!” in English is akin to "死ね!" in Japanese.
Green tea in Japan is akin to coffee in the USA.
kin = relative, 親戚
親切な in English is “kind”.
Only your kin must be kind.

10. If 2 or 3 or more people have guns pointed at one another we call that a ~ standoff.
a Mexican Standoff

11. A long summer is called an Indian summer.

12. When something takes a long time we compare to "taking a slow boat to ~."







 

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1. Today is the one year anniversary of Maggie’s death.

2. I’m feeling a little nostalgic.

3. That song brings back memories.

4. I was just taking a trip down memory lane.

5. the good old days = the past
I was just thinking about the good old days.

6. My old stomping ground. = the place I grew up or used to hang around

7. an old flame = an old girlfriend or boyfriend
I ran into my old high school flame in the mall yesterday.

8. to settle an old debt/score = to get revenge for something that happened a long time ago
I settled an old score.

9. to give it the old college try = to try hard
Come on, man! Give it the old college try!

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10.  I did my best. = I tried very hard.
= I did my darnest. < I did my damnedest.

11. I bent over backwards to do the job.
to work very hard to accomplish something for someone; to go out of one's way (to do something) (for someone).

12. Hang in there! = I know life is hard now but don’t give up.

13. Hold on! You're almost there! Just a little farther!  Hang in there!

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14. He got it backasswards!

He always does everything backasswards.

15. I know ~ forwards and backwards.

I know my speech forwards and backwards.

16. I know NYC like the back of my hand.

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Basic head / mind idioms:
1. to make up one’ s mind: to decide
I decided. = I made up my mind.

2. to change one’s mind = to change your decision

3. to go crazy = to go out of one’s mind/head

4. to be crazy = to be out of one’s mind/head

5. I can’t think of any off the top of my head. = I can’t think of any right now.
I just thought of it off the top of my head. = I suddenly had an idea.

6. Do you have something on your mind?
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Famous movie idiom:

7. What are you thinking of? = A penny for your thoughts.
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8, A penny saved is a penny earned.
一銭の節約は一銭のもうけ。／ちりも積もれば山となる。

9. He's a bad penny.
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10. The honeymoon is over.

11. The relationship has been soured by ~.

12. to blossom

13. to bloom.

Flowers are in full bloom

14. to threaten = 脅す、威嚇する

15. He pulled the plug on ~.

16. He does not want to change the status quo of the seabed.

17. My allergies are acting up.

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1. I am stressed. / I feel stressed.

2. I am stressed out.

3. “I am stressed.” is stronger than, “I am frustrated.”

4. “I am exasperated.”= very annoyed

5. I am running out of patience.

6. I am at the end of my rope.

7. I'm at my wit's end.

8.  He showed me the ropes.
Hey, I’m new. Could you show me the ropes?

9. ”Give someone enough rope and he'll hang himself."

10. Give him an inch, he'll take a mile.

やつに甘い顔をするとすぐにつけ込んでくる。／寸を与えれば尺を望む。

11. He always goes the extra mile for his customers.
11. He always goes the extra mile. = He always does more than necessary.


12. I bent over backwards for him.

13.

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“soon idioms”

1. ASAP = as soon as possible
A.S.A.P. or “EISAP”
Call me ASAP.

2. Spring is coming soon. = Soon is just around the corner.

3. Spring will be here before you know it.
あっという間に = before you know it

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4. I met my wife at a party and before I knew it, we were married.

5. Proverb:
愚か者の金はすぐにその手を離れる。= A fool and his money are soon parted.

Today’s vlog expression:
anesthesia

He removed it.

I had a small procedure.

He removed it.

NEWS!
TUNISIA

There was a shooting spree.
to go on a spree
to go on a shopping spree,
to go on a shooting spree, 
to go on a buying spree

A manhunt was underway for two or three accomplices after the gunmen were killed.
an accomplice = 共犯者
a manhunt = 犯人の追跡

underway = happening now = 動作中の

“Historic” is an adjective that means something important or influential in history.

“Historical” refers to anything from the past, important or not.