Today, I want to talk to you about some fall idioms that you can use in everyday conversation.
Hey everyone. My name is Wes. This is interactive English,
which is where you want to be to practice and improve your English skills.
And today since it is fall I wanted to talk to you about some common idioms and
expressions that you can use in everyday conversation and this will really help
improve your, your comprehension and overall English fluency.
So the first idiom that I want to talk to you about is to turn over a new leaf
and this just means to start fresh. To start new.
You really want to to change your attitude or your circumstances.
So for example, maybe somebody might lose their job and they say, okay,
I need to turn over a new leaf.
I need to start fresh and I need to change these circumstances.
I need to start looking for another job, start anew, start fresh.
Maybe a road trip is exactly what I need right now.
Starting tomorrow, I am turning over a new leaf. Time with you is my number one priority.
I'm turning over a new leaf and my good luck starts now.
The next idiom is the autumn years and well,
autumn is another word for fall and if somebody is referring to the autumn
years, they're talking about the later point in someone's life.
They would refer to it as the autumn years. When somebody gets older and yes,
this, this is not your autumn years, it's our little girl Emmy.
but when you're talking about later on in somebody's life, you may hear,
you may hear them refer to it and say the autumn years.
You're getting a little philosophical for me.
I suppose so. They say it happens in the autumn years.
I make teach. I may write a book whenever the hell one does,
when one approaches autumn of one years.
Then we have the idiom to drive someone nuts and this is relevant.
I think of fall. I often think of nuts.
You can find them on the ground and nuts is also an informal word,
a kind of slang. That means the same as crazy. So if you drive someone nuts,
it just means that you are making them crazy.
Perhaps a person could be driving you nuts or maybe a situation is just driving
you nuts. It's making you crazy.
Hey, I'm not go ing to mince words Mitchell. You're kid is driving me nuts.
You better thank your lucky stars.
I'm not in this competition because I would eat you from breakfast.
Babe, your mother drives you nuts.
Then we have one of my favorite idioms cause I like,
I like using it from time to time when especially when I feel sick and that
idiom is under the weather and you say that somebody maybe feels a little bit
under the weather and what it means is that person is kind of starting to feel a
little sick so it's not like they're really sick.
It's just maybe they're a little sick or they're starting to feel sick and say,
yeah, I'm feeling, I'm feeling a little bit under the weather right now.
Yeah...heard you were under the weather.
Oh, I didn't think I was going to get to see you until tomorrow.
Yeah. Well, Bernadette is a little under the weather.
Well, I've been feeling a little under the weather, but I'm feeling much better now.
And if you hear somebody talking about like, Oh, for example,
what are you doing in my neck of the woods?
They're talking about a particular area or maybe even a particular neighborhood.
So that's what it means, neck of the woods.
And oftentimes yet people might ask a question like I just did. And they say,
Hey, you know, you see somebody in your neighborhood and you say, Hey, what?
What are you doing in my neck of the woods?
Or perhaps in the office that you work at,
somebody in another department comes and visits you in your department and you'd
say, yeah, what are you doing in my neck of the woods? What are you doing in,
So what brings you to my neck of the woods? Just a few errands,
I'm going to be in your neck of the woods soon. And, um,
it would be very nice to see you.
Well, if you ever get down to my neck of the woods, you got a place to stay.
Another idiom with woods is not out of the woods because when I think of the
fall,
I often think of the woods and if you say that you are not out of the woods,
it just means that you are not out of danger.
So out of the woods is talking about out of danger.
And I think most of the time you hear it with the word not.
Somebody is trying to say that they are not safe.
They are still in a dangerous area. They are not out of the woods just yet.
I think you might hear this in like TV shows and movies.
If somebody is being chased by another person or a group of people and they,
they haven't lost that group, they're still being chased. They say, you know,
We're not, we're not in the woods just yet. We need to keep running.
Mike's going to be okay. Can we see him? He's not out of the woods yet?
I guess one of you could go in for just a minute.
Heartbeat is stronger, but we're not out of the woods. You need to get things going now.
The cord is wrapped around the neck.
The next idiom is shaking like a leaf and if somebody is shaking like a leaf,
it's a way to describe somebody who is trembling.
This person is shaking the trembling mostly because of fear. You can say, Oh,
they shaking like a leaf. The same way that an autumn leaves, they tremble,
they shake, and then they fall to the ground. And again,
then you could say they are shaking like a leaf.
I'm setting your chair, dearie. You're shaking like a leaf.
He's going to be on muscle. Muscle?
He's shaking like a leaf. How's he gonna do anything?
He wanted to talk about his father's symptoms.
He Skyped and there he was shaking like a leaf.
Then we have to get wind of something and if you get wind of something,
it just means that you hear some rumor about something.
It could be a rumor about something or a rumor about someone and you get wind.
Of this information, you learn about it, you hear about it, you could say, yeah,
you know I got, I got wind of that,
I heard about that rumor or I heard that piece of information to get wind of something.
Thought the publicity would really helps ZipCouch.
Once the press gets wind of this.
You know what they're to say. They're going to say you wear pissy pants.
If the pervert community gets wind of morning jogging, Oh God, help us.
Then we have the Apple of someone's eye. And if,
if you're talking about the Apple of someone's eye,
it just refers to a person who is love the most by someone else.
So for, for example, yes,
I could say that that Emmy right here,
you are the Apple of my eye. That yes,
she is loved the most by me. She is the Apple of my eye.
Um, as well as you want to send things, the Harpo,
they are the apples of my eyes.
So if you described someone as the Apple of your eye,
it just means that they are loved the most by you.
Aw, look who it is, my husband, the apple of my eye.
Oh apple of my eye. Love of my life.
I mean his household was a joyous place.
And his wife Dolly, well she was the apple of his eye.
Then we have the idiom cold turkey. And you just got to include this because
turkey...Thanksgiving...it is a very,
very popular word around around fall. So if somebody,
you might talk about quitting cold Turkey and what that means cold Turkey is
that somebody stops a bad habit immediately and,
And you would quit something cold Turkey often I think of smokers.
They've been smoking for years and then they just suddenly quit.
They would say I quit cold turkey.
So any kind of bad habit that somebody might have,
whether it's smoking or drinking, and then they suddenly stop,
you could say that they quit cold turkey.
because I made you quit cold turkey.
Love isn't about fixing someone. I'm just going to give her up cold turkey.
You need to prove to Tara that you can be trusted.
I'm cold turkey Jacks. No booze, no weed. I'm serious.
The world just can't quit on oil and nuclear power cold turkey.
You'll dismantle our entire economy overnight.
So there you have it. Those are some great idioms that you can use in everyday conversation.
They are all related to the fall,
but you can use them in a variety of different situations and context.
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