Idioms in English - 'All' - Free Transcription
Idioms in English - 'All' - Free Transcription
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Valen: Hello, my name is Valen and this is a lesson on âIdiomsâ. So an idiom is a phrase that uses English words, and itâs an expression, so the words still represent their literal meaning, which is why idioms are sometimes hard to understand for ESL learners.
So today I am going to take you through quite a few idioms that use the word, âallâ - All - okay, so all of these idioms that we are going to go through today are commonly used in English conversation, I am not going to teach you any of the really out there ones, these ones are all used quite often.
So the first one we are going to learn is âall your eggs in one basketâ - All your eggs in one basket. So when you hear the sentence, you are usually going to hear it as, in the negative, so âdonât put all your eggs in one basketâ. And what it means is because eggs are fragile and they break, if you put all your eggs in one basket and you drop it you are going to lose all your eggs at once. So the meaning of this phrase is donât put, like spread the risk out, donât put everything into - so if you are betting something, donât put all your money on one horse for example. So donât take a risk where you are going to lose everything, is what this means. âDonât put all your eggs in one basketâ.
Okay, the next idiom we are going to learn if âall earsâ - All ears; so, we hear with our ears, and if you are listening to somebody and you want to say, âI am listeningâ, a common expression that you would use is âI am all earsâ. So usually you use this one in reference to yourself, you wouldnât say, âheâs all earsâ, you would usually say âI am all earsâ, so if you are listening, somebody is telling you something, you say, âI am all earsâ, it means you are listening. âAll earsâ.
Okay. Alright, next idiom is âall in your headâ - All in your head; so if somebody says to you, that something is all in your head, it means that you are imagining it, so if you are really worried about something, and somebody says to you, âdonât worry itâs all in your headâ, what that means is that itâs not really real, you are just imagining it and creating it in your head. So you would use this in reference to somebody else, âall in your headâ; you could also say âI am sure itâs all in my headâ, so I am just imagining it or blowing it out of proportion, making it into a really big deal when itâs not really that big of a deal. âAll in your headâ.
Our next idiom using âallâ is âall in a dayâs workâ - All in a dayâs work; so what this one means is it basically means that something thatâs no big deal, so if somebody thanks you for doing something and you say âoh, itâs all in a dayâs workâ, it just means, âno problem donât worry about it, it wasnât that big of a deal, itâs all in a dayâs workâ, it was simple. That one is pretty easy, âall in a dayâs workâ.
Alright - this is the one I really like, âall hell broke looseâ. So obviously this one is a little more negative than some of the other ones, so if you said, âall hell broke looseâ, thatâs clearly not a good thing, it means there was chaos, so if you were in a situation and you said to somebody âand then all hell broke looseâ, it means and then there was chaos. âAll hell broke looseâ.
Okay, âall over the mapâ. So a map is a piece of paper that shows an area of land, and if you said that something was all over the map, for example, if a teacher was giving a lecture and it was really difficult to understand and hard to follow, and they were jumping from subject to subject, you would say, âthat lecture was all over mapâ, you couldnât understand it, you couldnât follow it like a path on a map, if there was no path, it was everywhere, it was un - like it was incomprehensible, it was âall over the mapâ. So you canât understand it, you are referring to something like a lecture, if someone was talking to you and you didnât understand, but, and they were saying, just they were jumping around all the time, âthey were all over the mapâ.
Okay, we have one more idiom. âAll eyes on meâ. So you could say, âall eyes on meâ, âall eyes on him/herâ, the âmeâ is replaceable, but basically what it means is that everybody is looking at you and sort of waiting for something to happen, so if you are about to give a speech, you would say, âand then all eyes were on meâ, and it sort of means that everybody is waiting for you to talk, waiting to see what you are going to do next and watching. So you could say, if the president was going to give a speech, okay, âall eyes are on himâ, and it sort of gives the impression not only that they are looking at them but that they are waiting for something to happen, they are anticipating something.
Okay, so we learned seven idioms using the word âallâ. We learned, âall eyes on meâ, âall over the mapâ, âall hell broke looseâ, âall in your headâ, âall earsâ, and âdonât put all your eggs in one basketâ.
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