20+ English Idioms, Slang Words and Phrases from Just ONE Episode of an American Sitcom
For this lesson, I watched a single 25-minute episode of one of my favorite American TV shows thinking about watching it from an English learner’s perspective. I took notes on all the words and phrases I thought would be difficult for non-native speakers to understand and this is what I discovered:
There were over 20 English idioms, phrases, and slang words that you would never find in an English textbook!
I’m sure I even missed some. This video is packed with advanced English vocabulary words not only from the idioms I will teach you but from related idioms and the explanations and examples I teach!
This lesson is probably best suited for intermediate to advanced English learners.
I talk at a native English speaker's pace for most of the explanations, so it's great practice for listening to fast English. If it's too fast, remember you can always slow the video down in the YouTube settings.
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American English Idioms, Slang Words, and Phrases I teach in this free English lesson:
01:36 It's showtime!
02:06 I'm here to coast.
02:30 Coasting through life.
03:07 Bed head
04:04 Major b-word vibe
04:50 I'm out. / I'm out of here.
05:30 I wash my hands of this.
05:48 Talk a good game
06:11 All talk and no action
06:59 No one gives a rat's ass
07:33 Drive home a point / Drive in a point
08:05 Make a point
08:30 Beating a dead horse.
08:50 Have you met me? / Have you met (someone)?
10:08 A fiver / Not going to cut it
10:27 (Something) won't cut it
10:50 Has the right / What gives him/her the right?
11:10 (Someone) stepped over the line.
11:32 Draw (someone) in. / Pull them in.
12:35 Live life to the fullest.
12:45 Throw me a bone. / Give me a bone.
12:57 Give me a break.
13:29 Cutting class / Skipping class
14:00 All up in your business/ All up in (someone's something)
15:03 A fallback / fallback plan / Plan B
15:38 Leave the nest.
16:03 Empty nesters/ empty nest
16:10 Empty nest syndrome
16:23 I know a (something) when I see one.
17:08 Get what's mine / Get mine
17:45 Get what's coming to you
18:19 That's a wrap.
Do you know what sitcom I got all of these phrases from? The hints are at 18:50 if you want to guess! Leave a comment with your best guess and I'll let you know if you're right or wrong!
