It was excellent that you mentioned the actual origin of some of these expressions, for example "the world is your oyster" and "to go dolally". Quality is what characterises your lessons.

IMHO,the best channel about English language ... whenever I click on the video I know that it would be practically usefull and no time wasted !

@LetThemTalkTV

6 жыл бұрын

That's very kind. I'm pleased to hear that

@mylin1979

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is no brainer :)

@nildabatistaneto257

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@khalilmubarakmohammed9174

2 жыл бұрын

Lp

@khalilmubarakmohammed9174

2 жыл бұрын

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It’s a treat watching you in action- your business!it’s my cup of tea.😅

in love with your lessons and your perfect accent and voice

Really Really helpful each and every single one of the videos . It is an amazing contribution to the English speakers. I personally appreciate your work. Greetings from this side of the world. Panama city Panama.

1)to have a whale of a time-have a great time 2)to paint the town red-go out and have a crazy night there. 3)wakey-wakey, smell the coffee-see be aware of what is happening. 4)mumbo-jumbo-nonsense 5)(it is a ) no brainer-it is so obvious and you dont even need to think about it. 6)the world is one's oyster-have undless possibility, so you can do whatever you want. 7)better than a kick in the teeth-better than nothing. 8)gotta see a man about a dog- is used when you go somewhere but the reason is vague or not interesting. 9)go doolaly-go crazy 10)red tape-uneccesary administration.

@KenzoAngel

4 жыл бұрын

English vibes you have also a channel ☺️

@KenzoAngel

4 жыл бұрын

English vibes I think it is not undless but endless 😅😅😅

@Tedinator01

4 жыл бұрын

Many of those expressions are identical in American English. We would say, “Wake up and smell the coffee” instead of “wakey-wakey” though. Also, I’ve heard, “I’ve got to see a man about a horse” used by an actual cowboy in Texas - he was using the expression to indicate an immediate need to find a toilet.

Greetings from Santander, Spain. I can't find words to thank you for your forceful way to teach us. I'm speechless. My English has strikingly enhanced since I started watching your videos. You never cease to amaze me! Cheers!

You're an incredible teacher. Really going to the next level with these idioms. And the English language has a lot of them. Thanks again. To answer the question, I once heard about “crying like a church on sundays” which means complaining excessively. Not very common said to me a welsh teacher, but terribly idiomatic.

The best English learning channel

You know the ropes of teaching quite well. I flatter myself that you are the best online teacher of English language.

@LetThemTalkTV

6 жыл бұрын

You are flattering me. Thanks (offline too, by the way)

@DK-zi4xh

6 жыл бұрын

Not in the slightest sir. I do mean it.

@nattidove7491

3 жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV I'm nuts about your subtle humour and irony.)))

Essential, No. Curious, yes ? and as usual, seasoned with history and general knowledge.

Just love this video!!! You're an amazing teacher!!!

My favourite expressions are "Speak of the Devil!" and "Cat got your tongue?" Many thanks for the good video!

Thank you for your classes, always enjoyable and high level. There's a lot of good Engllish teachers in YT, but you're the best. Well, to honour my beloved deceased mother, I'd like to remember something funny that she liked to say in some situations (in Spanish): "That's not that Maria was washing and ran out of soap," to refer to a problem that was not simple.

So interesting lessons,always! Thanks for letting me know that ' what a pitty' is very old fashioned! I used to say it always because my English teachers did when I was a student 40 years ago....

Superb lesson, Gideon! Thank you kindly!

Very good video, I used some of these idioms regularly and yet I learned their origins and meanings, thanks!

Hi Sir, Huge thank you. I have got hope now that my english will be perfect soon. It is because of you! No nonsense, straight forward and easy to remember. Its a no brainer to follow your teaching!

Great job! From Brazil 🇧🇷

Thank you for sharing these wonderful expressions with us.

I’ve just discovered your channel and I’m learning a lot with you . Thanks teacher 👍

You are amazing mate. You are perfect. First time in my life i really want to learn English. Regards from Cyprus.

I really enjoy your videos. I watch one everyday, even if I've seen it previously. I feel happy as a clam at high tide, after watching it.

This is beyond perfect . Please do more of these .

Thankyou so much sir. God bless you.

Your lessons are amazing! Thank you!

Thank you for sharing these nice expressions

Sir, I really appreciate your teaching skills and expreressions.Looking forward for more videos.Learning was never this fun.Thanks a lot.

Dear sir your videos are awesome I'm getting fluency day by day by watching your videos thanks sir

@LetThemTalkTV

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, that inspires me to continue

@kdtravelvlogs139

6 жыл бұрын

LetThemTalkTV it's my pleasure I'm from India

@nicolereneau5140

5 жыл бұрын

Kishan Devnath Morning

@lorenasmartevents5354

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, you are so polite! Congrats. Is it that you're very well educated, or you are over 60? You are sooo polite. 👍

i like this channel it has an oasis of knowledge

Fantastic! it is getting better day by day...I admire the special atmosphere that makes you look like a bilingual ( at least) philosopher building up an English course in his spare time

Dear Gideon! You are bloody brilliant!!!!!!

Thank you Gideon. These are useful expressions!

@LetThemTalkTV

6 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you think so

@andreamanteca2790

5 жыл бұрын

It's not the sea to drink ! ( not so difficult..) The king was not my cousin ! ( I WAS the king !) To have fly's thigh ( not fat !!) It was like a day without any bread... To speak French like a Spanis cow..... French sayings...I don't dare to tell some others..

These are the best english lessons ever…!!!

@onlyysigma

3 жыл бұрын

🤓Hire me at discord=peufyfx i will teach english

Wonderful! Thank you!!!

My favorite expressions: “I gotta hit the hay”, “What is this hullabaloo?” and “I’m in your neck of the woods” 😂

Some of my favourite expressions in English from the top of my head: 1) I failed my exam for the 4-th time. When I finally told my mother, she really *went ballistic* . 2) He was already angry, but when he learned that his wife is having an affair he *went postal* . [The phrase refers to the 1970s workplace rage mass shooting in the US postal offices] 3) *Prospects look promising* 4) *Reciprocal benefit*

I am really hooked on your sessions. Really informative and not boring. I wish my elementary/secondary English teachers were as funny and entertaining as you are. Grammar is kind of boring, but you make it so informative and interesting. Thank you so much. Yasmeen

Thank you. I enjoyed your lesson!

Interesting expressions! I look forward to learn more from you Mr. Gideon. Although I live in the US; I'm always finding new ways to enrich my Vocabulary. Thank you for this video! It's been very instructive!

I love your etymological approach and also your doubts!

It's so useful! Thank you ever so much!

I adore this man !!! Amazing, inteligent and very useful...great job sir :)

Hellllooooooooooooooo...... After encountering red tape and my boss's political mumbo jumbos all day long, I am not kind of a person with much bent towards painting the town red so i watch your videos and i always have a whale of a time. Somedays,I cant practice many expressions but still even few are better than a the kick in teeth It is a no brainer your videos are helpful. Confident about my linguistic skills, I feel the world is my oyster. I m happy about it but have surely not gone dollaly. Anyway, i have got to see a man about a dog! Regards!

@pussycatlover6522

4 жыл бұрын

Hamaka

@keerthyraja8301

4 жыл бұрын

Wakey wakey smell the coffee😛

@madinaalimova3143

4 жыл бұрын

Lovely jovely

@onlyysigma

3 жыл бұрын

Nice but gettouta here i have to a eat cup of coffee 😎😎 hire me at descord =peufyfx i will teach english live🤓🤓

@kerrylosi1595

3 жыл бұрын

Kay Chaudhry o

Hey, Gideon! Thanks for your work. Amazing stuff! Funny fact: I usually replace "I've got to see a man about a dog" with... ... "I have to return some videotapes". LOL

Thanks Gideon, I am collecting this kind of expressions and my favorite is: "the light is on, but nobody is home". Not very friendly to say it about a person who is not "the brightest candle on the cake".

I've been learning a lot with your videos and I do try to use everything I have learned so far. You are very creative and have the kind of sense of humor that I like. Thanks for your lessons.

@LetThemTalkTV

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Indeed very dolally course. Thank you very much.

You 're too good man Thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge More power to u

U r really important in people's lives🌹

A really awesome video! I enjoy watching your content, keep up the good work.

Thank you for a practical lesson! A direct translation of a Finnish saying: "I rather do/eat/go/etc X than get beaten up badly"

Collection and thanks again

I love and I really appreciate it.

This is fantastic you really went out of your way to come up with this video idea ! I must admit I have never heard the expression-"To paint the town red".

@LetThemTalkTV

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Maybe you haven't heard the expression but I'm sure you've done it.

YOU ARE A WONDERFUL TEACHER I AM REALLY LERNING WITH YOU

Amazing lesson I liked your way to explain wakey wakey smell the coffee thanks a lot Teacher for this lesson.

I've never seen how Toto Cutugno speaks English. Thanks!

I love and respect you!

I always watch your videos, save, and download them. All your lessons are interesting. Thank you for the effort. CHAPEAU

"Don't go doolally" it's my favorite!

Thank you very much, great video

Gideon, sir - your videos are outstanding - no fluff, pure substance! I am supposed to get some work done but your videos are too entertaining. Some of my favourites: 1) it's gone tits up/ gone to pot 2) as good as a chocolate teapot 3) being off one's trolley 4) around the bend and up the spout 5) having a bit of how's yer father 6) in donkey's years 7) it's six of one or half a dozen of the other 8) having good old natter / chinwag 9) Bob's your uncle (reply: Fanny is your Aunt) 10) Oopsy daisy 11) to poo poo an idea 12) Excuse my French 13) being a few sandwiches short of a picnic 14) being bog standard 15) something being a dog's dinner 16) to have gone dotty 17) someone being a top geezer / diamond bloke 18) to get plastered / legless / pissed 19) to be pants / the pits 20) one big malarky 21) to be quids in 22) just sod's law 23) to be unable to organise a piss-up in a brewery 24) being a wind-up merchant 25) being a ponce 26) not having two bobs to rub together 27) chop chop! 28) to take the biscuit 29) something being tickety-boo 30) being crawling the walls Back to work now....

Thank you teacher

Learned so much..thank u sir

No doubt all your videos are worth watching and not one time! But reading your replies to some of the comments is even more worthwhile!

I love your videos. They are so funny and I also adore your British accent. You just made yourself a fan of yours. I'm going to 'pester' my students with all those proverbs. Thanks a lot - or understating it - ta!

@kirstenfarr7877

5 жыл бұрын

...myself.... I wanted to write :(

Sir,you are doing a lot of service by providing varieties of lessons in English.I thank you very much for all you are doing.p Siva Rao,India.

Hi Gideon, I've just tried today the expression "whale of a time" with my native language English teacher. She said "I never heard before this expression and I'm English", then I said "Maybe... you are Irish" :) Yes, I know, it is not a British answer , but I couldn't resist....:)

@danielkurtovic9099

Жыл бұрын

: ))))))))

Very interesting expressions, some of these I’ve just heard , like mumbo jumbo or red tape. Good job !

Great effort, Sir. BTW, in Arabic we have the same expression " better than a kick in teeth " " افضل من لا شئ " Or in Slang Egyptian Language. " احسن من مفيش " I know it's hard to read them but l really liked the video and loved to share them with you.

@xirilla

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomascepicky5830 in polish we say 'lepszy rydz niż nic' which means the mushroom is better than nothing.

@streetfelineblue

2 жыл бұрын

In Italy we have several but the closest one would be "meglio di un calcio in culo" (better than a kick in the ass)

@cristinarasines8985

Жыл бұрын

En español se dice "menos da una piedra"

You are doing awesome job sir

I'm a New Yorker and we have enough English, Yiddish, Dutch, Spanish, etc expressions to cover most everything, but one I like to borrow from British English is "bumf." There really is no other word to elegantly express "irritating and useless papers or paperwork created by a worthless bureaucracy." It's not quite the same as "red tape," which usually means paperwork and processes you need to go through to get something done. "Bumf" is more just paperwork for the sake of paperwork, as I understand it. Unfortunately, I can't use the term much here, since no one here speaks British English!

Hello, sir nice to see you, j'adore votre videos , comme vous parlez le français chui d'Algerie , Bonne continuation.

thank you! great! I love your videos

Very nice!!!!😊

Here in western Canada, we say "wake up and smell the coffee" instead. Interesting difference. I also haven't ever really heard the one about seeing a man about a dog

@KingWilliamI

3 жыл бұрын

Also, replace "better than a kick in the teeth" with "don't look a gift horse in the mouth"

Stay mellow ...wow

awesome sir 🙋

Thank you so much sir :)

To go doolally, great expression!. Similar to 'to go bonkers' , 'péter un plomb' in French, to blow a fuse. About 'red tape', how interesting!. It seems that Charles V of the German Empire aka Charles I in Spain, made some interesting contributions to the European culture. The Belgian city of Charleroi is named after him and it literally means Charles-King. He also defended Viena from the Ottomans. He did not burn Luther straight away, as was usual with divergent views then, but asked him to explain his theology first, which gave Luther time to evade and write his bible in German, signalling the emergence of modern German. Charles V also declared the natives of America as worth evangelizing and tried to protect them. His father was the great Maximilian, also German emperor, a fine Renaissance man. Then, Charles V gave a king to England, his son Philip II, yes he was king of England during the reign of Mary I, as a consort King without political powers, and his portrait hangs on the walls of the British Parliament. This English King persuaded Mary I not to kill Elizabeth I during the reign of the first. This is the same Philip II that later tried to invade England with the Armada. Finally, the word 'dollar' came to the Caribbean 'Spanish dollar' through the German word Thaler during the XVI century, as Charles V was also king of Spain. The thaler was silver coin and the Americans took the term for their coin because it was the most know term for coins in America due to the Spanish dollar.

@StuffMadeOnDreams

Жыл бұрын

By the way, I forgot to explain that the know cocktail 'Bloody Mary' is named after Mary I, Queen of England, as she was a catholic and persecuted Anglicans very violently, killing many. When her half-sister Elizabeth I became Queen, she did the same with Catholics...but there is no 'Bloody Elizabeth' cocktail...

thank you very much I enjoy your lessons very much I am french a french expression for you : par monts et par vaux -

Your lesson are quite good.

Great video! Thank you very much for interesting expressions, explanations, and wonderful teaching method. I am putting effort into learning these expressions and using them. I personally find another interesting thing: you make an example mentioning Vietnam, my original country.

fantastic!!! i love it!!!! abbraccio...

I want to paint the town red, I love this expression

Hello Gideon, thank you very much for this video and the others. It is a very helpfull stuff. I'm living in France. You even can't imagine how much red tape we use here! I imagine we are close to the wordwide shortage of it🤣🤣🤣. One can easily gone doolaly with it! It is more than mumbo jumbo! Regards from rainy Nice

I love the expression "to go doolally", it's so funny! Thank you for your videos, sir!

Thank you for this video. I was wondering if any of these expressions were usable in America?

Finally I know what " going to see a man about a dog" means. Edward Petherbridge says it in one episode of his fascinating interpretation of Lord Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers detective- your lessons on English expressions are my cup of tea. thank you.

Thank you

@LetThemTalkTV

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

Thanks! Nice one. After trying to do business in East Africa i certainly know what red tape is. So, one of my favourite expressions is GET LOST.

THANK YOU! :)

U GOT TO EXCUSE ME AS MY ENGLISH IS NOT GOOD. BUT, I COULD LEARN MUCH MORE FROM U. I PERSONALLY FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOUR VIDEOS BECAUSE U DON'T SIT WITH A BOARD WITH A PEN IN HAND. U TEACH QUITE NATURALLY. I REALLY RESPECT U SIR....THNKU SO MUCH..

Thanks for your always interesting lessons. A favorite expression of mine is "Not my circus, not my monkeys".

Thank you for sharing so useful expressions, I have a few ones. Get off your high horse. Milking the situation. I'll be back in a jiffy . Where there's a will there is a way.

I'm having a whale of a time just by watching your videos Gideon. Thanks very much indeed!

Gideon is the best English teacher on the web! No brainer 😊👍

@LetThemTalkTV

5 жыл бұрын

That's the best comment on the web. Thanks

Thank you for the video it has been extremely useful and I especially liked the explanation of the origins of the expressions. My favourite is "as easy as abc " and " it is not brain surgery". Now I know another one with the same meaning.

@Tedinator01

4 жыл бұрын

June Summer there’s also, “it’s not rocket science.” I have a friend who works at NASA who says that all the time.

I.thank.you.so.much.for.your.help.sir.