 Hello, students. It's Shayna, your teacher from espressoenglish.net, and our phrasal verb of the day is RULE OUT. We'll start the phrasal verb lesson in just a moment, but first I wanted to tell you that if you're interested in my online courses but you want to know exactly what the lessons are like, you can take some free sample lessons. So if you click on the link in this video or in the description for this video, you can see free samples from all of my courses and all of my ebooks. I hope you'll check them out. Let's learn about RULE OUT. I have three possible definitions on the board and only one is correct, so I'll describe a situation where we would use this phrasal verb, and I want you to guess whether RULE OUT means a delay until later, B dislike, or C eliminate from consideration. You can post a comment with your guess and then keep watching until the end of the video when I'll tell you the right answer. Let's imagine that my husband and I are looking to move into a new house, and we're looking at a list of 20 houses in the neighborhood where we want to move into, and as we're looking at these houses, my husband says, well, we can rule out these five because they're way too expensive, and I say, oh, I agree, and then I say, well, we can rule out these seven because they're too far away from where we want to be, and he agrees with that, too. So after we've ruled out the houses that are too expensive and we've ruled out the houses that are too far away, then there are how many eight houses left on our list, and so we decide to go visit all eight of those houses. Based on this situation, what do you think it means to rule out A, B, or C? I will tell you the correct answer in just one moment. I hope you got it right. The correct answer is C, eliminate from consideration. So in this example, my husband ruled out the houses on the list that were too expensive for us, so among those 20 possibilities, those 20 options of potential houses to move into, five of them were too expensive, so we ruled them out. We eliminated them from consideration, and then seven more of the houses were too far away, so we also ruled them out. We eliminated them. We're not considering those houses as possible options, so out of 20 houses, we ruled out 12, and that leaves eight houses for us to visit. I hope now you understand what it means to rule something out. Go ahead and try to use this phrasal verb in your own English, so post a comment under this video and talk about a time when you ruled something out, meaning to eliminate it from consideration. I hope you've enjoyed watching today's video, and I hope you'll also take a look at the free sample lessons available for you so that you can see exactly what's in my eBooks and online courses. See you next time.