शैडोइंग अभ्यास: B2 English Listening Practice - Idioms in English - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

Hey everybody, welcome to this B2 English listening practice video.

You can use this video to train your listening and comprehension as I speak.

You ready?

So today I'm going to talk about a few common idioms that we use in English.

Idiomatic expressions play such an important role in any language, and so it's good to always be learning new ones.

So without further ado, let's look at our first one.

Once in a blue moon.

I'm sure some of you have come across this expression at some point in your life, but But maybe you didn't quite understand it when it was said.

If we say that something happens once in a blue moon, it means that this thing very rarely happens.

So, for example, I could say, this type of event only takes place once in a blue moon.

That just means that this type of event almost never happens.

Alright, here's another idiom.

To feel under the weather.

This is an essential one that you should definitely learn.

It simply means that you're feeling a little sick.

You wouldn't use this expression if you were really sick or you had some really serious medical condition or something, but you can use it if you have a cold or something like that.

So I might say, I'm going to have to skip tonight's party because I'm feeling a little under the weather.

In fact, I'm actually feeling a little under the weather right now, because I've been having some issues with my throat and sinuses.

Okay, the third idiom that we're going to look at is this one, stab someone in the back.

This is another expression that you'll want to get down.

It's universal, and I'm sure the expression is pretty similar in other languages, but it might be worded a little differently.

So when you stab someone in the back, you betray them, more often than not in a pretty dramatic or brutal way.

So for example, let's say I tell a really embarrassing personal secret to my good friend

and then my good friend goes and tells a bunch of other people my secret.

This would be considered him stabbing me in the back.

Pretty straightforward, right?

Alright, the next idiom is cold turkey.

This is one of my personal favorites.

The phrase cold turkey is used to show

that someone quits a harmful habit immediately without any program or weaning off process to help.

So if a man's been smoking a pack of cigarettes every day for the last 30 years and then just stops immediately, he quit cold turkey.

Or if a drug addict suddenly throws away all his drugs and quits completely, he quit cold turkey.

Don't ask me where this expression came from though.

Alright, one more idiom.

Born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Of course you can substitute his with any other possessive pronoun here.

This idiom is often used to negatively describe someone who was born into a wealthy family.

You wouldn't want to say this to somebody's face though.

People usually say this when they're making disparaging remarks about somebody else.

So you might hear someone say something like this.

He doesn't even know what work is.

He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

So hopefully some of these idioms were new for you, so now you've got a few more native phrases in your arsenal.

Okay, that's all for today.

Leave a comment and try to use one of these idioms in your own sentence.

I'll see you next time.

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