60 Incredibly Useful Phrases for Fluent English Conversation (Binomials)
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Here we have 60 binomial pairs (and trinomial pairs) which are useful phrases that you can use in everyday conversation to increase your fluency. Native English speakers use them all the time and if you want to reach an advanced level you should start using them too.
Binomial pairs are just as common is English as phrasal verbs so do learn them
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Definitions from
Macmillan Dictionary
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Collins Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Learner's Dictionary
Dictionary.com
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I'm sick and tired of all the mumbo jumbo on the internet, with all the hustle and bustle and people fighting tooth and nail in the commands. But this video was live and learn to me. First and foremost I liked your presentation which was loud and clear. The nitty gritty part was that you kept it pure and simple. I was born and bred in the Netherlands and with this teaching little by little and step by step my English will become good and proper until sooner or later I will so much sound like a native speaker that even my own flesh and blood won't recognize me. But all in all and by and large, to make this command short and sweet, I've tried and tested the binomial pairs in this command far and wide but maybe I've overdone it a little 😋
@shivashankaripasupathy6451
5 жыл бұрын
Great job Wilma 👍 Please note. The word comment is better suited than command.
@wilma8326
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback, I see the mistake now and will probably remember the difference now 👍
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
Amazing. That's far and away the best comment I've read on binomial pairs
@aktanakhmetov
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent!
@tomaszstefaniuk9449
4 жыл бұрын
...comment...
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. THE MOST PLEASANT AND EFFECTIVE TEACHER ON KZread EVER. Pure and simple !
Dear Gideon, I get mesmerized by your lessons! I used to be teacher, retired now, but with you it’s life-long learning!
Sir,now I understood that there is no meaning in roaming here and there for learning English Binomial phrases.I think its better to learn from you now and then.Thank you so much sir.
Your 15 minutes lecture was awesome. I understand each one of 60 binomial/trinomial loud and clear. Thanks
Technology will keep evolving but NOTHING CAN REPLACE THE POWER OF A TEACHER'S INSPIRATIONAL WORDS !!!!! You will always be my pride and joy honey !!!!!!!
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
Comments can be inspiring too.
@rrasgar
5 жыл бұрын
Well said.
@madhusingh6266
5 жыл бұрын
Lovely
@MrGeorgefans
5 жыл бұрын
honey kya teri thoo
@karthikthiagarajan2331
5 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely true! Imagine having a transcription of this video and releasing it as a pdf. Just reading it would be so boring, like reading a list of sentences.
As am American lawyer and one who deeply admires our absolutely best British friends , this post is great, as are all of yours. Great language. Great presentation. Good stuff.
Language teaching at its best. I'm perfectly fluent in English already but these classes make me want to go the extra mile beyond fluency ...with tried and true binomials and whatever else you're explaining to your eager learners.
Thank you! Very useful. I am not native English speaker but realized that I have been using about 30-35 binomial pairs out of 60. Have to watch again and memorize rest of it! Cheers from Kazakhstan!
*All in all* this was very informative - thank you and all the best!!
You were absolutely loud and clear in making us rise and shine through this video.
I am fascinated by characters like You who have the best of both worlds: an academic using the most current platform to spread his knowledge. Thank you, pure and simple.
Your lessons are really helping me to keep me tuned with English after years of not practicing! Picking up expressions is as useful as sliced bread! Thanks a lot!
Kudos to your ways of teaching English, by and large every single binomial is loud and clear... and good and proper...
This video was pure and simple, short and sweet. There is no ifs and buts all in all I loved it.
Dear Sir Gideon, what a privilege... You are such an erudite teacher as well as a jolly good comedian, I'm always "Feuer und Flamme" when listening to your lectures... Greetings from Berlin...🤩
I truly admire the way you teach. Your lessons are always clear and exciting. Cheers! You're the best!😊
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
No, YOU are the best.
through thick and thin i will always be there for my family members no matter what. this video is nice,i like it
I say it loud and clear, this tutorial is one of the most useful and interesting ones you offered on your stunning KZread channel. Thanks indeed.. 🌟 🌟 🌟
This video was very exciting to watch. Properly used, the learning is for sure, to make one rise & shine👍
Thanks to you sir, my english is improving by leaps and bounds
@peterhouston161
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks to you sir, my english is improving IN leaps and bounds.
Precise and concise 👏
This is one of the most interesting lesson I've ever seen. you have made it very sound and clear. Thank you
This is the kind of video I was looking for since too long and fortunately here you are explaining the nitty gritty of it in a good and proper way!!!. Thanks a bunch!!
Please note the mistake on number 43. Correct binomial is "down and OUT" (not "down and about"). Apologies.
@monicas.9407
5 жыл бұрын
Okay sweetheart , we all got that ......but don't make " a song and dance about it"....
@monicas.9407
5 жыл бұрын
Hello Sweetheart , sorry to disturb you ....but you know , i wish " i could care less" about you but i'm afraid i can't ....so i was just wondering : Is there any chance to know if you're okay, if everything is okay there and when you'll be back , please ? THANK YOU SWEETHEART !!!!!!!!Have a beautiful day !!!
@monicas.9407
5 жыл бұрын
Hi sweetheart ! You know i " have a bee in my bonnet" about you , don't you ? don't you? But you have no idea how it hurts to need someone that much .....
@SohailKhan-qd3sp
5 жыл бұрын
+Monica S. can you help me improve my English sohailkhan774@gmail.com
@UMBUBA
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe you should intro- bloody -duce your-bloody-self sir. How is that for a trinomial bloody lesson.
Sir, You are the professional what do you and I love the way you teach English. I noticed my English significantly improved in a bit short time in so many ways since I stick on your channel. You are my BEST teacher and all that I need is to be a MASTER in your lessons. I can't say Thank you enough for your brilliant ideas and inspirational words. STAY TURN and LET ME TALK.
Thank you so much Gideon! I’m just loving it and can’t wait to share it with my C1 students. It’s just the vocabulary issue we’re currently looking at! I really appreciate your efforts!
Neat and clean, Sir! Thanks for the precious lesson.
After listening to your marvellous teaching i reckon i know the ins and outs of binomials now
I can definitely say for sure now, after years of wandering to and fro in the ocean of tutors and textbooks, that you are far and away the best English teacher I've ever come across in my life. Your lesson is awesome and advanced. Thank you so much!
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
Lo and behold! A marvelous comment. YOU are the best, pure and simple.
@user-gj3fh4zx5t
5 жыл бұрын
@@LetThemTalkTV I am very much obliged for your kindness. And for a couple of new binomials respectively :-)
@drzavahercegbosnaponosna5974
5 жыл бұрын
@@LetThemTalkTV no list of "60 Incredibly Useful Phrases" ?!?
@smug8567
5 жыл бұрын
Say you got a big job interview, and you're a little nervous. Well throw back a couple shots of Hennessy and you'll be as loose as a goose and ready to roll in no time.
@antoniocastillo5382
4 жыл бұрын
I agree
First time in a real class of English. Thank you.
Thank you so much !!!! So kind of you to share these with us. Keep up the good work!!🙏🙏
"toss and turn" means to move around restlessly while sleeping or trying to sleep: I was tossing and turning all night. Thank you, teacher!
I really like this lesson; it's awesome, thanks a lot
Thank you sir. All of them written down and memorised, done and dusted.
Really simple, nice and effective with perfect pace and sentence formation. Well done ..!
I love the way you teaching us ..thank you sir and keep going 🌸
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
I love your comment. Keep watching. Thanks
this lesson is simply brilliant. really appreciate it, save me a lot of energy and time to summarize the topic.
@BrennanYoung
Жыл бұрын
or even "a lot of time and energy" (most common sequence) :)
@nedlin7934
Жыл бұрын
@@BrennanYoungThank you🙏
This is one of my favourite videos of yours, Gideon. It has made me aware of how widespread these expressions are and how many there are. All of a sudden they seem to everywhere. Done and dusted, waifs and strays, they just keep popping up:)
Thank you. I'm from East Europe. No one ever mentioned binominals at school or in English books. So great. I'll start using them.
The English language is Unique Ambiguously rich in idioms and Sacasm I absolutely love the English language
He is phenomenal ❤️
I enjoyed it very much. You brought back memories of when I will listen to a program entitled Everyday English on the radio in the morning before going to school when I was a teenager. I will come back to your channel to continue to learn from you come rain or shine!
Time and again I searched and searched and finally found this meaningful video. Thank you sir. Binomials make a sentence interesting.
Incredible pedagogue, awesome skills,wordless regarding your way to deliver. "Crème de la crème" perhaps made for the guy like you. A lot of love and respect from Pakistan
@111danish111
5 жыл бұрын
By pedagogue you mean a teacher right?
@jawadmoktadir2797
5 жыл бұрын
@@111danish111 "Pedagogue" in French and the word exists in English as well. And that means someone who uses a pedagogy( in education generally ) in doing something. The teacher is using the pedagogy of "using the expression in the mean time he's explaining them ".
@MuhammadShoaib-cd9jm
5 жыл бұрын
111danish111 Yup brother
Dos and dont's !
I am SICK AND TIRED of this bloody PANDEMIC but happy that my entire family is SAFE AND SOUND. Can't wait to see the HUSTLE AND BUSTLE in my city when this is behind us so we can all go OUT AND ABOUT following our normal routines !! SOONER OR LATER I want to meet you in person to thank you for making me a better teacher! Hope you are keeping safe Gideon! God bless.
I just discovered this channel, this is gold. Plain and simple.
Your videos are the bees knees! "Love dogs but love the pigs too!" I see what you did there ;) You are one heck of an empathetic and intelligent human. Much love and success to you
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
Many thanks. I love the expression "the bees knees". Love and success to you too.
I'm a native speaker but I watch these videos and love them :)
@saltanatpatsayeva2170
3 жыл бұрын
Why? What's is wrong?)
Now THIS is a great lesson! Thank you.
I caught myself just smiling all throughout the video. I really really love this one! It just sounds so nerdy and elegant!!
You are Great 👍🏻
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
You are great
Hi Gideon! How are you doing? I'm the first viewer today and putting the comment into your comment section. This video is really useful and wonderful. Great job!
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
A wonderful comment. Great job on being first! Thanks
@rezza2507
5 жыл бұрын
My pleasure. Anytime.
@kubaemang7856
5 жыл бұрын
LetThemTalkTV daddy
@rezza2507
5 жыл бұрын
hello
He's such an inspirational and successful English teacher. He made his fortune, lock, stock and barrel, only by teaching English!
It is loud and clear that there is dearth of teachers like you. Superb Sir!
I am DONE AND DUSTED with this video!
I was praised for idioms n I guess binomials, I just let it flow. I used to be the best . Mumbo jumbo. Must admit this is the thing...🎯 tried n tested. Maybe I still am......? I know these. Beautiful . Safe n sound , happy on the ground...you name it
@raphaelbishota5727
5 жыл бұрын
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These crisp and short binomials will certainly make one sound natural when speaking English! Your explanation of them was clear and unambiguous! Thanks!
You are a good teacher. Thank you for making this so easy to understand.
Whoa! I only know binomials as a mathematical term. But binomials, also known as Siamese twins, binomial pairs, (irreversible binomials, nonreversible word pairs or freezes) in the English language refer to a pair or group of words used together as an idiomatic expression or collocation, usually conjoined by the words "and" or "or."
Alive and Kicking !
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, you are!
@lpr5269
5 жыл бұрын
"Stay UNTIL your LOOOOVE ISSSSSSSSS." I love that song.
I wish I had had an English teacher of your caliber when I was in school. You are brill. Please keep up your good work.
Best video ever! There are of course pros n cons of such videos but I will surely watch them time after time. Thanks for the binomials n trinomials too.
so nice lesson thx
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
Such a nice comment.
10:32 it is not Down and About, it is down and out.
Oh man amazing!... I think no one can beat you in terms of learning of native British English.. good job.
I've been studying Japanese for a while, would like to have a teacher as inspirational and as competent as you sir.
The term "binomial" reminds me of the famous theorem from sir Isaac Newton. Newton's binomial expansion theorem and Pascal's triangle theorem are kind of flesh and blood. In my imagination, the two great mathematicians wine and dine together pretty often in heaven to give birth new formulas. Oh I think I have enough mumbo jumbo already. Anyway, I enjoyed the lesson very much. Thank you so much.
@cyberoptic5757
5 жыл бұрын
better: flesh and blood.
@BlackMamba1985
5 жыл бұрын
Flesh and blood
@vasosvacios7694
5 жыл бұрын
You do know bi stands for 2 and tri for 3 right? Binoculars, triangle, etc. Then comes tetra, penta, hexa, hepta, octa, and so.
Curious fact, we use many of these phrases in Russian, and they mean literally the same.
@rivoireb
3 жыл бұрын
Same for french ! For example "tooth and nail" is "bec et ongles" in french. "Ups and downs" ==> "des hauts et des bas" "Time After Time" ==> "jour après jour" "Safe and sound" ==> "sain et sauf"
@AshrafKhan-nw4ku
3 жыл бұрын
Hi how re you
@bronahaspicova1443
3 жыл бұрын
In Czech as well
Just suscribed to your channel; I knew most of this expressions, but not only I enjoyed learning new phrases, but also liked a lot the way you take your time to give examples for every case. Greatings from Chile and keep the good work.
When all is said and done this is one of the most important lessons I have ever taken
The hurly-burly of the binomial and trinomial pairs is over and you have won fair and square in it
@kathleenanne7868
5 жыл бұрын
... binomial pairs and trinomial triplets... ;-)
bits and pieces
@mohab752
5 жыл бұрын
Also, bits and bobs.
I really like the way you explained the topic, and your sense of humor.
I visit your KZread videos now and then, by and large I can say you are my best english teacher. your way of teaching is for sure tried and tested.
First and foremost, I want to say that many students don´t improve their English because they practice every now the then.If you want to master your English, you have to repeat new phrases time after time.I understand that people have to learn new things step by step.I´m sick and tired of people who never try to improve anything in their lives.
Also "beg, steal or borrow," should be "beg, borrow or steal".
This is one of your best. Very inspirational for what I'm woking on . . . . thank you.
Gideon explains everything loud and clear, so that sooner or later, little by little, the learners obtain the biggest part and parcel of the language.
This guy reminds me of "hotel transylvania"
@avenuesharringtonroad1460
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you from india
@prasadwaghmare6308
5 жыл бұрын
Right bro
@simplysyaira1567
5 жыл бұрын
Yup i feel it too
@pixie89
5 жыл бұрын
Omg yess, "mavy wavy my little mouse" 😂
@prakritisingha6906
2 жыл бұрын
yup same!
2018 is done and dusted. So, let's be hopeful for hunky- dory 2019.🤣🤙
@harixav
5 жыл бұрын
@@bensmith9253 it's hunky-dory. Source : Google
@katherined800
5 жыл бұрын
@@bensmith9253 No, it definitely is not. Native speakers are often wrong.
I believe in you and have convinced me "hook, line and sinker".
I understand loud and clear what you taught us! I will try my best using them!
I wish if you were my English teacher.
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
I am
@1953emo
5 жыл бұрын
Hi,Fuad, let me correct you: I wish you were my English teacher. :)
@fuad9603
5 жыл бұрын
@@1953emo Thank you☺
@fuad9603
5 жыл бұрын
@@LetThemTalkTV I am proud with that☺☺
@1953emo
5 жыл бұрын
Small correction again: I am proud of that. :)
I have to get band 7 at IELTS by hook or crook.
@Love_Honor89
5 жыл бұрын
No ifs and buts! I am sure you will succeed! Best of luck to you!
Thank you Sir Excellent exposition of various binomial pairs and in-depth analysis thereof.
I had tried and tested many ways to learn English, and maybe it looks like I repeat after you, but it's true: Pure and simple... The best teacher of English Is You!
As an American, I've never hear "tried and tested" before... The American pair would be "tried and true".
Sink or swim - пан или пропал
@user-gj3fh4zx5t
5 жыл бұрын
From rags to riches - из грязи в князи
@Love_Honor89
5 жыл бұрын
Sink or swim - или грудь в крестах, или голова в кустах 😉
@user-gj3fh4zx5t
5 жыл бұрын
@@Love_Honor89 не знала такое интересное выражение!
@Love_Honor89
5 жыл бұрын
@@user-gj3fh4zx5t моя учительница любила нам это повторять перед экзаменом 😃 но я запомнила это виражение, потому что мой отец родом с кубанских козаков и он тоже любил это выражение
We just watched this video with my son, it is pure and simple tried and tested English lesson. Thank you 🙏
Thank you Sir. My deepest appreciation. Over and out.
Down and out or down and about? Or both are correct?
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
Down and out. means poor and homeless.
@abdobouchareb6791
5 жыл бұрын
@@LetThemTalkTV but it's written down and about? And you read it down and out! We are confused.🤔
@hintergarten
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I noticed the mistake in the transcription too. "Out and down" should be written instead.
@hintergarten
5 жыл бұрын
Sorry. " down and out"
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, I just checked it. It is a mistake. It should say DOWN AND OUT ....sorry my fault
I've heard "bits and bobs" is that a real one?
@JOGAMIGMOG
3 жыл бұрын
Yes! It means to have a little knowledge of something or to have only partly done something. Eg 1. I know a few bits and bobs of Spanish, enough to get by. Eg 2. Did you manage to fix the car? Not totally, I repaired a few bits and bobs but it really does need a new engine.
You are loud and clear. Great work sir... Thanks.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I'm gobsmacked! you keep releasing original and extremely useful content. Thanks Gideon!
@LetThemTalkTV
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your extremely kind comment.
For good or worse
@discedoce1827
5 жыл бұрын
Gerardo Mendoza S. For better or for worse
I just realised the Cockneys are actually more advanced in binomials
@howtocutatreewithaherring82
5 жыл бұрын
Yes. You've got to adam and eve it!
@arwahsapi
5 жыл бұрын
Let's rub-a-dub and get brahms and liszt!
Time after time, truth has overcome the most difficult times. Enjoyed listening to your video, Sir.