 Hello! Welcome to Learn English Live. My name is Sherrie and we are going to have a live lesson this evening. Tonight we're gonna focus on idioms. So let's get started. Let me take a look and see who is all here tonight first. I was just finishing up my dinner. I have a lot to tell you guys tonight and I want to share with you. Of course I've got my co-pilot here. Bitsy is hopping up here in my lap. So let's get started and look and see who is all here. Bitsy can you say hello to the viewers? I don't think we have too many people here quite yet but let's take a look and see who we've got here. Go to the live chat. Hey Bitsy. Alright guys let's take a look at what we've got going on tonight. So hello Dwi. Dwi you get the star award for the night for being the first student in the classroom. Let's see who else we have. Let me know please in the chat if you can hear me and see me okay. Please follow up and let me know if you can. Javier. Hello Javier. How are you today? Ronaldo. Welcome Ronaldo. Thanks for coming to the live chat tonight. Alex. Great to see you Alex. And Samira. Samira you should be sleeping. Layla good morning to you. Good morning. So let me know if you guys can hear me so I can see that in the chat. There seems to be quite a delay. Maybe because I don't have my ethernet cable. Thank you Layla. I have my ethernet cable hooked up. That will help. Okay now we are cooking with gas. That is an idiom. When you say we're cooking with gas that means that things are moving along. Things are going smoothly. We're cooking with gas. Hello Asaf. Hello welcome. So let's see it is 7-0-3. So let's go ahead and get started with our lesson today. Okay first of all before we start with the idiom lesson I want to share with you. Today was a very important day and that is because today is the day. I don't know if you can see here. Let's see. Can you see right here? I have my I have a bandaid right here. I received the first dose of my COVID vaccine today. So I received an immunization for COVID today. I received the Moderna brand immunization and I will receive the second immunization in two weeks. So it was it was an important day. I did take a photo and I'm going to do a short video that I will post on my Instagram for you. For you individuals who follow and it will also be on my TikTok talking about the experience and also giving you some information on what the definition of vaccination is comparing that to immunization. So check for my TikTok and Instagram on that video which will be coming to you soon. May it's great to see you and yes Samira another saying that you can use is I can sleep when I'm dead. That is something that people will say when they don't get enough sleep. They're active. They're busy. They have a lot to accomplish. I can sleep when I'm dead. Hello Michelle. Welcome. So let's get started with our idiom lesson for this evening or morning depending on where you are. So let's talk about the definition of idioms first and definition. The definition of idioms is that idioms are expressions which have a meaning that is not obvious from the individual words. So again there are expressions that have meaning which are not obvious from the individual words that make up the complete expression. Thank you Layla. Yes and I did some research. I wasn't sure if I wanted to get the vaccine. I wanted to make sure that I was well informed and I feel like that was something that I needed to do. So I do want to call attention to those of you who are here today who are channel members. Thank you so much for doing so. May, Michelle, Layla. Thank you so much for being channel members. Gratrudus. Hello Gratrudus. I did not see you earlier. Thank you for being a channel member and of course Dwi. Thank you so much. What you do helps Robin continue with his mission and that is to help as many students as possible learn English. So let's get back to our lesson idioms. The best way to understand idioms is to see them in context. So see the idiom in context. So for example if we just were to read this in the blink of an eye. What does that mean in the blink of an eye? Not really sure because we don't have the context of the sentence. So here is an example. The race was over in the blink of an eye. Okay guys, post in the chat. Once you have seen the sentence with the context, what do you think in the blink of an eye means? Let's take a look at the chat. See if we have any late comers today. Alex, remind me where you are from. I cannot remember if you don't mind. It seems that students are slow to get back to the live streams. I need to maybe let more students know. If anyone is in our chats on WhatsApp with Robin, if you could please remind students that we are live for our lesson, that would be fantastic. So what does the idiom? The race was over in the blink of an eye. Yes. Okay, I see some people answering here. Let's see if we have a few more. Dwi, ay, you just used a great idiom. No idea. That is that is good. We're going to talk about that phrase no idea and what idioms we can use instead of saying I have no idea. Michelle, okay. Okay, Javier, I think maybe you used the innier instead of a pee. Yes, you retracted. Okay, we'll wait and see if Javier types in. It's very windy today here at my house. I can hear the wind blowing quite harshly outside. I don't know if harshly would be a correct word. Maybe the wind is blowing fiercely. We'll give Javier a moment as he's retyping his answer. Ronaldo, okay, that is fine. So let's go ahead and would you like to give the answer? Oh, okay, so you don't understand or have no idea. We'll go through that. Riam, nice to meet you. Hello. The race was over in the blink of an eye. This means that the race ended very quickly. The race ended very quickly. So let's think about how fast do we blink our eye? Right? You blink your eye very quickly. It happens just like that, right? So the race was over in the blink of an eye. Oh no, Asif, what's wrong? You look sad. No, don't be sad. Okay, so yes, Gertrude, the race was over very quickly. And so if you were, let's say you were watching a foot race. So track is a sport where the athletes run in competition. And there are some races which are very short in length such as the 100 meter dash. That is something that a race that is run in track events. If you watch the Olympics, the athletes run very fast. And if you're not paying attention, you'll miss the entire race because it gets over so quickly. The race was over in the blink of an eye. So let's learn ways to describe when you know something well. Okay, so when you have a really clear understanding of something and you are skilled at understanding that concept. So when you have something quick, basically in the blink of an eye is when something gets over very quickly. Another saying that you will hear people say that is not an idiom is it was over before we knew it. Which means that it began and ended so quickly. It happened so fast. It began and ended before we knew it. Okay, so let's talk about ways that you can describe when you know something or when you're want to discuss someone else knows something very well. Inside out. Inside out is one idiom that you can use. So she knows the material inside out or she knows the material inside and out. And Gertrude, you beat me to the punch. Okay, so you beat me to the punch is an idiom which means that she posted a sentence that we're going to study very soon. I did not see Grace. Hello Grace. Welcome Grace. It's great to see you. She knows the material inside and out. So just to get you up to speed Grace, we are talking about idioms you can use to express when you can do something very well or when you do not have an idea. You don't know the answer. She knows the material inside out. So this means that she knows something very well to know something very well. Getting to Gertrude's sharing of an idiom like the back of her hand like the back of her hand. Now in some languages and cultures this idiom is used in a similar manner and it will be used as like the palm of my hand or like the palm of her hand. In English we use the idiom like the back of her hand and Riham, I see your question and I will go back and address that in just a moment. She knows the city like the back of her hand. So when you think about it, we look at the back of our hand every day of our lives as we're doing things with our hands. We see the back of our hand and so that is why this idiom means that you know something very well. She knows the city like the back of her hand. So yes to know something very well. She knows every detail of the city's streets. So someone who drives an uber for a living often knows all of the streets in a city and all of the ways to get around traffic. Ah so that means I know like my pocket. Okay Michelle thank you for sharing that. So I want to go back to inside out. Riham wanted to ask about the meaning. So inside out means that you know the material very well. You understand something inside and out. So let's think about it literally if you have a bag which let me give you so here's a bag and I'm going to open the bag. I know it inside and out. We know everything about it. I know all the details inside and out. Do you guys use these bags? They're kind of nice. They're too we use these when we go to the grocery store if you buy frozen items and you have to travel a distance you can put it in here and it keeps things cold and it will also keep things hot. I know the material inside out. So let's take a look. Layla says I know my family like the back of my hand. Yes so you know your family very well and oftentimes if there's something that happens you will know how your family will respond to new information because you know them so well. You can anticipate their response or reaction to something because you know them like the back of your hand. Okay so let's go back to our next idiom to describe when you know something and this idiom is knows his or her stuff. Knows his or her stuff. When it comes to math he knows his stuff. Yes Layla. Yes I I've had um I was doing a live stream on another platform and there were students who said that in Arabic that was what that saying was. Knows his stuff or knows her stuff. When it comes to math he knows his stuff so let's type in the chat box what he knows his stuff means. Go ahead and chat in the chat box and let me know what he knows his stuff means. When it comes to math he knows his stuff and please remember students to be active learners during this live lesson. I want you to practice saying these phrases these idioms with me so you can improve your speaking fluency. When it comes to math he knows his stuff a little bit more quickly. When it comes to math he knows his stuff. Ah very interesting Gertrudis it's the same in Spanish. Yes so he knows math very well. He knows math extremely well. When it comes to math he knows his stuff. Oh goodness. Pizzi is really keeping me comfortable today. I waited outside in very cold temperatures. It was probably 30 degrees Fahrenheit which I think is around zero degrees Celsius and I had a hat and I had my gloves. Chica is so naughty and a coat. It was really cold outside. My hands and feet were really cold so I'm still kind of cold. Very good at something. Yes Grace that's correct. When it comes to math he knows his stuff. He knows math extremely well. So thank you for typing in the chat box the answer to that. So let's move on to the idiom has a familiar ring to it. Has a familiar ring to it. The example sentence is the name of the movie has a familiar ring to it but I don't remember what it was about. Grace I have four dogs. Yes Chica. I have four dogs. This is my this is my sweet dog. This is Pizzi. She's my oldest and she is super smart and she's really good and then I have Chica. Chica come here and Chica is my puppy. She's my puppy and she's the one who's naughty. She's super cute but oh she can be naughty. So let's take a look. Lord of the Rings movie. My precious yes. The name of the movie has a familiar ring to it but I don't remember what it was about. So let's take a look and see what this idiom means. Has a familiar ring to it. Okay here's another exercise. Please write a sentence in the chat box using the idiom a familiar ring to it. Thank you Grace. Yes my Chihuahuas. I love them dearly. They are very precious to me and my dogs love me and do not tell me no. They don't talk back to me like teenagers do so that's nice. Okay so let's see like Reham I'm not sure what movie you're referring to. Let me know. So let's use the sentence in the chat box with the idiom a familiar ring to it. Here is the example again. The name of the movie has a familiar ring to it but I don't remember what it was about. I'm trying to read and see here. So yeah okay okay so Grace what you're saying Grace is that you can recall some things about my live stream but you don't really remember all of the information. I hope the live stream sticks with you a bit better. Okay so Layla wants this explained. Okay so when you use the idiom has a familiar ring to it this means that it sounds familiar but you can't quite remember all of what happened or you can't quite remember the name. Using a familiar ring to it is one idiom that is often paired with remembering things like names. Ah that has a familiar ring to it but I just can't quite remember the name. Okay yes so Samira her name okay we want to change that to her name had a familiar ring to me or had a familiar ring to it but I couldn't remember her name had a familiar ring to it but I couldn't remember. Gertrudis the name of this actor rings a bell the name of this actor rings a bell so that is the next one we're going to talk about. Gertrudis you beat me to it again twice now you want to teach this lesson I think you could. Oh okay Dwee mm-hmm so Grace says the voice on the radio has a familiar ring to it yes that is a perfect explanation the voice on the radio has a familiar ring to it do you know him or do you know who sings this it has a familiar ring to it but I can't quite place it. This game has a familiar ring to it yes Michelle so that's when you're playing a game and it feels similar but you're not quite sure if you remember the name of the game or how the game is played and Gertrudis says no you don't want to teach this class oh come on I bet you can teach the lesson okay so let's go ahead and move on Samira you are welcome we are here to learn I am learning from you just as you are learning from me so I really appreciate you participating in the class um Gertrudis don't be sorry don't be sorry Javier oh yes I'm sorry that your phone but I know you're here Javier thank you for hanging in there Reham I know that movie before yes that's what it means I know the movie but I just can't remember it at this time another thing that people will say is it's on the tip of my tongue but I just can't quite remember that means that oh it's that feeling when you think you almost know the name but I just can't quite get it to come out it's on the tip of my tongue is it this the meaning of familiar racing to yep so familiar something that's familiar mm-hmm okay so guys you used the sentence right using a sentence that says has a familiar ring to it great job wonderful exercise so here Gertrudis now it's your turn let's talk about rings a bell ah thank you so much grace that's so sweet of you ringing a bell I'm not sure if I know her but the name rings a bell the name rings a bell so this is when you're talking with some friends and they are like oh yeah you remember Sally we saw her at the party last spring and you would say not sure if I know her but the name rings a bell okay so this is someone you just can't quite place but the name sounds familiar okay grace the little hearts that you sent are so cute thank you so much um let's learn idioms now students to use when you don't know something okay so let's look Leila my sister's friends I didn't see your sentence thank you Leila my sister's friend name is has a familiar ring to me okay so we are going to do a correction here let's just add we'll insert a quick slide here I don't normally do this but we're just going to do this here Leila's this is Leila's my sister's friend name is okay so here is Leila's sentence we are going to correct it okay let's see if we can get this corrected my sister's friend okay so you're talking about your sister's friends name because name name is the noun sister's friends name sister's friends describes whose name we're talking about so my sister's friends name has a familiar ring to me but you have it as a question my sister's friends name has a familiar ring to me that's more of a statement if you wanted to do a question you'd say um my sister's friends name may have a familiar ring to me so let's see how that works out for you guys can you see that okay yes yeah you get to see my typing I can type pretty quickly but when I know that people are watching I tend to make errors in my typing okay my sister's friends name may have a familiar ring to me okay it still sounds kind of awkward right um my sister's friends name my sister's friends name may hmm I just I'm having a hard time with that sentence so Leila I think the best thing to do is to turn that into a statement rather than a question please let me know in the chat if that makes sense and Samira the answer was on the tip of my tongue but I couldn't respond and my teacher got angry oh Samira I keep hearing about your educators and it just makes me wonder I'm not going to speak poorly about your teachers though because I don't know them okay so let's get back to our presentation so let's learn idioms to use when we don't know something okay so we've talked about the things that we can use when we know something now let's talk about idioms that we can use when we don't know thank you so much everyone for being here today I want to stop this is the halfway point want to remind everyone thank you for supporting the channel learn English live Robin has done an amazing job and if you would like to participate in his whatsapp chat groups please the link is below you can request to be a part of that several students who are here are already participating if you would like to as well please check that out there's also a website shawenglish.com where you can take a test to see what your level is and both Robin and myself have resources and information there you're welcome Layla perfect also I am on Instagram and TikTok learn English with Sherry and I have my own YouTube channel learn English with Sherry as well hello Chris nice to see you so now let's take a look at the idiom when we can use when we don't know Michelle that's a great one it's a mystery for me I don't know it's a mystery to me don't have a clue don't have a clue I don't have a clue on how to get to New York I don't have a clue on how to get to New York okay make sure you're practicing these out loud okay we're being active learners in the classroom dwee says I don't have a clue about USA because I have never been stayed okay so let's fix that sentence dwee I don't have a clue about the USA because I've never stayed there before or I've never visited I think it would be better to say I've never visited I don't have a clue about the USA because I've never visited or I've never visited there before I don't have a clue on how to get to New York and this is true I really don't know how to get to New York if I were to get in my van to try and drive there I would have to get on google maps to find how to get there I don't have a clue how to be good at English give me some tips oh grace you're doing fantastic I don't have a clue on how to be good at English or on how to be a fluent English speaker grace keep practicing you're doing fantastic I know Robin always tells people read read I tell students listen to audiobooks on tape watch YouTube practice your speaking as much as possible talk as much as you can speak speak speak Samira I don't have a clue is my constant speech when I don't like to replay okay and angel welcome angel thanks for stopping in and thank you for being a channel member as well I don't have a clue on what I should wear today that is ding ding ding that's the gold star sentence that sentence is uttered many times I don't have a clue on what I should wear today yes that is a great sentence dwee you are you are so welcome Leila I don't a clue about traveling abroad alone because I never did it before I don't have a clue about traveling abroad alone because I've never done it before and Reham let me go back and see at your post I know that I know that movie before but I'm not remembering it this time that that sentence is correct am I clear Reham I don't see what sentence you're referring to so please let me know I will really I want to make sure that I'm assisting you with that so Leila I don't have a clue about traveling abroad alone because I've never done it before I've never done it before don't have a clue another example of an idiom that you can use Chris I don't know either I don't think I've ever met you before Chris I don't have a clue on how I got to this live stream that's a funny sentence I don't know uh my guess is you must have received a notification but thanks for being here I appreciate it that was a great sentence I don't have a clue if I should go there or not okay angel now I would like to take apart angel sentence I don't have a clue if I should go there or not this can be used a couple of different ways we have the literal translation and we have more the figurative translation if we were to say I don't have a clue if I should go there or not we may mean that we don't know if we should physically go to a certain location let's say you've been invited to a party but you know the people at the party may do illegal things that you're not comfortable with then you could say I don't have a clue if I should go there or not meaning you have no idea you're not certain if you should go you can also say I don't have a clue if I should go there or not let's say here's a good example okay I say to my husband does this outfit make me look fat my husband can then reply I don't have a clue if I should go there or not what he means is that he doesn't think he should even answer my question if I asked does this outfit make me look fat he's thinking maybe I shouldn't respond because I'm not going to win in this situation I hope that example helps you understand how you can use that sentence I don't have a clue if I should go there or not go there could be physically going to a location or it could also mean go there in a figurative manner. I apologize if I'm not saying your name correctly I don't have a clue on how to drive a car I don't have a clue on how to drive a car Layla I don't have a clue how to be good at driving I just started okay okay and Javier I don't have a clue when the pandemic will come to an end let's fix that I don't have a clue when the pandemic will come to an end thank you Javier I know you're working hard he doesn't want to answer it no he doesn't if he was a smart man which that's up for debate no I think he's probably pretty smart if he married me right um so it's best for not to answer a question like that I don't have a clue about how to fix my car Gertrudis my van is not working currently I have to take it to a mechanic Grace life is unpredictable I don't have a clue which is better just do what you want yes you're that's great advice if someone asks you um they ask for your opinion on something and you don't really know that would be a great response angel says I don't have a clue if that dress fits on you to that to go to the party okay I don't have a clue I don't really know if that dress fits you if it if it works for the party that we're going to he doesn't want to say something that yes would maybe make me mad at him that is correct that is so true yes okay so let's talk about don't have the faintest idea Samira I don't have the faintest idea how to make a sentence for this idiom well you just did I don't have the faintest idea how to solve this math problem it means I I don't know I don't know how to solve the math problem I am not a skilled mathematician we can also say I haven't the foggiest idea it means the same thing I have no clue I haven't the foggiest idea I don't have the foggiest idea how to say that in Spanish I don't have the foggiest idea how to say that in Spanish I'm talking about since I'm learning Spanish there are times when I'm like mmm I want to say something but I don't have the words to say it Javier yes I am I'm not laughing at your comment thank you Javier I am very fortunate I waited for about two hours outside in the cold but I'm really lucky that I was able to get that I don't have a clue about your channel if it will be successful let's change the word order around I'm laughing at that because Leila I don't know if my channel will be successful either ah Robin has been really helpful for me but it's not going as quite as well as I'd hoped so far I don't have a clue if your channel will be successful I don't have a clue if your channel will be successful I don't have a clue whether your channel will be successful just changing the words around a little bit can't for the life of me same thing it means when you really don't know I can't for the life of me remember what year we went to Russia okay angel I can't for the life of me remember what year we went to Russia so again this means that I have no idea I really don't know I can't remember what year we went to Russia yes Samira that's a great sentence I don't have the faintest idea how to calm down those noisy children yeah that's my life some it used to be some days when my kids were little I had three children that were all within two years of each other so when they were like three four and five whoa that was those were some difficult days for sure I haven't the foggiest idea how to set up this dishwasher yes Gertrude if you can afford it pay someone to set it up for you or I can't for the life of me when I have a boyfriend okay Grace I think we need to change that around a little bit I can't for the life of me remember when I had a boyfriend is that what you mean I can't for the life of me remember when I had a boyfriend again the next idiom we have is doesn't ring any bells that goes back to mmm I can't really recall the idiom doesn't ring any bells is often used with names trying to remember or recall a name of a person of a place okay Leila that's why we're here working and you can always rewatch the lesson that's actually a learning technique that I use with some of my private students and that's to watch a lesson and you actually watch it four or five days in a row once every day and you do a different thing each day I'm sorry that name doesn't ring any bells with me so what that means is it doesn't sound familiar to you at all okay an additional one that I wanted to throw in here is that there is a saying that you use when you've come to a conclusion and that is put two and two together put two and two together I can put two and two together what that means is you can make a conclusion based on the information that you have observed or things you have seen I use this often with my kids when I have caught them either in a lie or I found out that they've done something wrong and they act innocent they act like they did not do anything wrong and I can say I can put two and two together right because moms we are smart we can figure stuff out okay so let's see rehab I don't have a clue why kids have to be screaming when they are playing I just added a couple of words in there I don't have a clue why kids have to be screaming or have to scream when they play Samira I saw a beautiful flower in the garden but it doesn't ring any bells for me it doesn't ring any bells for me and that means that you saw the flower but you can't recall the name it's hard to make sentences with that idiom okay angel I understand and Leila I saw a picture of him but his face doesn't ring any bells with me yes yes okay so guys let's move on to our exercises in this exercise we are going to work to correct the mistake so I am going to give you a sentence that is incorrect that uses an idiom and we're going to fix it and that would be I don't have even a faint idea where he is today you'll have to ask somebody else I don't have even a faint idea where he is today you'll have to ask somebody else two and two together is a saying that's used when you make a conclusion based on information you've seen so Samira I think your sentence might be a little off Dewey says I can put two and two together because I have been busy all day faintest Samira says faintest let's see if anyone else responds we're on the home stretch students that means that we're almost done with the lesson hang in there Michelle I have not seen you for a while I don't know if you're still there I hope you are having a great day gratuitous yes let's see if anyone else has any responses mm-hmm Leila okay I don't have the faintest idea where he is today you'll have to ask somebody else I'll type it here actually no I don't want to type it because students will watch the playback I want them to be able to answer I don't have the faintest idea where he is today you'll have to ask somebody else so if I were to fix this we can do it here I don't have the faintest idea where he is means I don't know I don't know where he is okay so we corrected the mistake now let's try this exercise my cousin knows the tax laws outside and in my cousin knows the tax laws outside and in so if you want advice on your tax he'll help you my cousin knows the tax laws outside and in so if you want advice on your tax he'll help you all right go ahead and type in the chat what is the correct way of using the idiom here perfect yes I'm seeing some responses here inside and out inside and out we'll give it a moment great so if we were to make some changes we could say my cousin knows the tax laws inside and out so if you want advice on your tax he'll help you yes he knows it like the back of his hand yes it's it's knowing enough to give advice inside and out yes kirtutas there's that train again they are pretty punctual they tend to come through about the same times but I I didn't even notice it until you typed that so now we're going to change the exercise we're going to write a sentence that is opposite so we need to come up with a sentence using an idiom to make the sentence have the opposite meaning of what we see here okay yes that name is very familiar to me I think I've met her several times so how can we change this sentence and use one of the idioms from today's lesson yes that name is very familiar to me I think I've met her several times wait for a moment see what students we have here I don't have a clue if I've met him before so talked about very familiar so the opposite would be you don't know you don't know you have no no no recollection not familiar I don't have a clue if I've met him before mm-hmm yes um that we could also say yet we could say no that name doesn't ring any bells and Michelle you are correct the literal meaning of the sentence would be I have never heard of this name but if we're going to use the idiom from the lesson we could say that name doesn't ring any bells that name doesn't ring any bells that name is not familiar at all to me I don't think I've ever met her okay so now let's write a sentence again that is opposite I don't have a clue if I've met him that's good I like that rehab and Layla great sentences so now let's take a look at this sentence and let's write a sentence that is the opposite I know this takes takes some thinking right you guys are doing great keep it up she knows absolutely nothing about history so let's think we need to take what the meaning of the sentence is and do the opposite and use the idiom as well she knows absolutely nothing about history Samira it's okay she knows absolutely nothing about history we could say Alicio hello welcome thanks for stopping by we could say Robin knows absolutely nothing about English so let's write a sentence that is the opposite using the idioms from our lesson today let's see if we've got I remember Angel we want to use the opposite okay so we want to say that the person knows a lot right a sentence that is the opposite Reham is thinking yes good great let's see if we have any anyone else kind of thirsty so if you guys want to buy me a soda you can do that Robin often asks for someone to buy him a tea I don't drink coffee this is my caffeine so Natalie welcome Natalie it's great to see you so for those of you who are just arriving we're talking about idioms and we are reading the sentence and we are writing a sentence that is has the opposite meaning of this sentence so the opposite and we're also using the idiom as well so you say she knows absolutely nothing about history the opposite would be to say that she knows a lot about history so we would say she knows history like the back of her hand she knows all the ins and outs of history that's one I don't think we talked about that's an additional one she knows history inside and out yes when you talk about history she knows her stuff that's exactly correct Leila yes so Natalie if we were to flip that and say you know the opposite would be she knows everything she knows history like the back of her hand she knows the ins and outs she knows history inside and out those are some of the examples from our lesson today Alicia how are you doing okay friends so those were our examples we completed our lesson today on idioms and I have an additional idiom that I wanted to share with you here the bitmoji yes she knows so much about history she knows a lot she knows history from top to bottom that's another way of saying that someone knows all the details about the history so look at the picture the bitmoji of me in the bottom corner so if you were to describe a person and say she is a hot mess um you could also say this situation is like a dumpster fire a dumpster fire is something that you see it and you're like what's going on you cannot not look at it but it's a messy situation it's a dumpster fire she's a hot mess is another way of saying that she's like a dumpster fire you can't not look at it you have to look at it but when you look at it you realize oh that's awful because some days are like that right some days when you're studying english you feel like it's a dumpster fire it's just a terrible situation and you're really frustrated but you are going to work through it you can do it okay we can all do it together okay so let's yes ream i can i can do that i will write that down um i would i'll take some questions from you guys i have a few minutes if you guys want to ask questions let me write this down any questions this isn't really an idiom it's just a saying i guess dumpster fire dumpster fire is something all of us want to we don't it's not good to see but you can't not look at it okay so what you can do is like samira said you can write idioms down to help you remember them actually physically writing down on paper has been found by research it's it's been found to help our brain remember better than if we were to type information so the process of writing with a pen it just solidifies those pathways in our brain to help us learn new information if you keep a journal you can write things down in a journal things that you've learned that day if you've learned new words or if you have new idioms you want to try that's a great great learning technique all right let's just check to here and see oh thank you so much angel that's so nice of you guys welcome thank you so much for coming um we are here every Tuesday learning together on learn english live at this same time and if you come back tomorrow i will post some more homework for you here on learn english live and if you complete it i will respond to assist you it's a dumpster fire there you go alicio sometimes when you try to say some words it's like a dumpster fire it's it's a mess you can't get it to come out i feel that way with spanish sometimes too thank you so much everyone i want all of you to be kind to one another stay safe and don't give up thanks so much for coming see you everyone goodbye have a great rest of your day night morning thank you