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hello I'm Emma from English hmm
English idioms can you think of some
examples the early bird gets the worm
bite your tongue do they drive you crazy
idioms are really common English
expressions that can be used in formal
and informal situations they're quite
challenging to learn because the meaning
of the whole idiom all of the words
together often doesn't relate to the
literal meaning of the individual words
the idiom as you're painfully aware has
its own unique meaning so in this lesson
I'm going to teach you a few useful
idioms that will help you to talk about
your holidays now I'm sure that you'll
be able to think about a holiday that
you've had in the past and use the
idioms that I'm going to share in this
lesson to help you talk about them now
there are lots of English idioms but
learning to use some of them will help
you to sound creative interesting and
fun when you're using English and of
course it will definitely help you to
understand more of what native speakers
say using idioms correctly in your
English speaking exams like IELTS or
TOEFL will definitely impress your
examiner so it's worth spending some
time learning a few idioms that you can
use to talk about holidays that you've
had now a quick note remember that the
tense changes can affect the verb in the
idiom if there is one for example we're
going to travel light we traveled light
we are traveling light
so pay close attention to how I'm using
the idiom in these examples now let's
look at that same example again in more
detail to travel light or to pack light
now if someone travels light or packs
light they don't take a lot of luggage
with them on a trip they don't take lots
of bags we have to walk a fair way from
the station to our hotel so try to pack
light we only stayed for three days so
we packed light do you need some help
collecting your luggage or are you
traveling light to hit the road this
idiom means to leave or to start a
journey we're going to hit the road at
8:00 a.m. we're going to leave at 8:00
a.m. we hit the road
early so that we've reached the village
by lunchtime now this idiom is just as
easily used when you're at a barbecue
with friends and you decide it's time to
go home you can say okay it's time to
hit the road or it's time I hit the road
to catch the Sun this idiom is used to
say that someone is sunburned burnt by
the Sun we spent the whole day at the
beach so we all caught the Sun - someone
who looks some bit you could say you
look like you caught the Sun today try
not to catch too much Sun today keep
your hat on
notice how this idiom can change
depending on the tints same with the
next one - live it up or to live the
life this idiom is used to say that
someone is really enjoying themselves
and their
having a really good time without
worrying about anything including money
we're going to live it up in a five-star
resort for a few days we're going to
live the life on a beach in Mexico we
were living the life and having
cocktails by the pool when the cyclone
hit to do something on a shoestring or
to do something on the cheap now this
idiom is nothing like the last one if
you do something on a shoestring or on
the cheap you do it without spending a
lot of money staying in hostels is a
good option if you're traveling on a
shoestring budget we traveled through
France last year on a shoestring we plan
to spend a month in Bali on the cheap
and then live it up in Singapore for a
few days before we fly home at the crack
of dawn this idiom describes the
earliest time in the day just as the Sun
is rising we were up at the crack of
dawn to watch the Sun Rise it's a long
drive so we set off at the crack of dawn
Paul got up at the crack of dawn every
day to hike around the island bright and
early
now this idiom is similar to the last
one it's used to explain that something
happens early in the morning it's not
quite as early as at the crack of dawn
though we had to get up bright and early
to catch the train to Paris another
idiom that similar is first thing it
means before anything else is done in
the morning we need to check out first
thing tomorrow you need to call and make
a reservation first thing we don't want
to miss out wuff to call it a day
or caller denied this idiom means to
stop doing an activity for the rest of
the day or to finish what you're doing
at night and go home to bed we were so
exhausted that we decided to call it a
day and ordered room service in our
hotel room let's just call it a day and
go to the pub I need to call it a night
I've been dancing for 12 hours its feet
okay so this idiom is used when someone
feels the need to travel they don't want
to stay still my friends always tell me
that I have got itchy feet after being
away from work for so long it's really
difficult to sit at my desk for eight
hours a day
I've got itchy feet already I noticed
that Ben is really distracted at the
moment do you think he's got itchy feet
so there were quite a few idioms there
weren't there can you think of any other
ones that you could use to talk about
traveling or holidays if you can add
them to the comments below this video
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