Hi I’m Niharika and welcome back to a new lesson. Today we are gonna look at some idioms
related to human body. Now we’ve done a lesson before on body noises and different
parts of body. But to be fluent, I thought that idioms is a great idea. So here we have
some idioms for you and let’s get started.
The first one is, Beat ones head against the wall. Now what does that mean?
It means when you are trying something really hard to achieve
something and you’re not successful. It means that you’re wasting your time. You
are beating your head against the wall, so it means that all your attempts are failing,
so all your attempts are failing to achieve something and basically you’re wasting your
time. So for example, my cousin she’s just bought a new dog, a little puppy, whose adorable.
But she’s been trying to potty train him and it’s just taking forever. She’s just
wasting her time, because the dog is just not learning. So it means she is beating her
head against the wall. She’s wasting her time trying to potty train the dog. So that’s
how you can use this idiom. The next one that I have for you is , Sight for sore eyes. Now
sight for sore eyes means something that you find extremely pleasing. It’s like complete
treat for your eyes. You’re extremely glad, you’re happy to see something or someone.
So you’re extremely happy to see someone or something. So probably if you’re starving
and then someone presents a nice meal in front of you. Oh yes that sure is a sight for sore
eyes, because you’re already starving, you’re hungry and then you find some good food right
in front of your eye, so it is sight for sore eyes. That’s how you can use this idiom.
The third idiom that I have for you is Pain in the neck. There are so many people, who
end up using this idiom and trust me it’s quite interesting. It means that you are bothered
or being annoyed by someone. I’m sure you come across a lot of people, who love to annoy
you or bother you, so which means that they are being pain in the neck. To be annoyed
by someone, so if you have a colleague , where you’re working, you have a colleague, who
keeps bothering you, troubling you, when you are trying to get your work done. It means
that he’s being a pain in the neck, so you can use this idiom for such people, for such
annoying people. The forth one that I have for you is, Wash your hands off. Now wash
your hands off a problem or a situation. It means that you are just letting it go, you
don’t care anymore, you’re not bothered. It’s none of your business, so which means
that you’re washing off your hands of a problem or a situation. You don’t wanna
deal with it; you refuse to deal with it. So you refuse to deal with the problem. Now
most of couples, I have observed that they argue over something, so probably their son’s
behaviour, the mother is extremely upset and she keeps telling her husband, that you know,
please don’t wash your hands off the situation. He’s your son, so which means the husband
is least bothered. He like refuses to deal with his son’s problems, so that’s how
you can use this idiom. And then the fifth one is, Weak at the knees. When you go weak
at the knees. It means you are very nervous. So you might have come across people, who
say that, I’m just going weak at my knees. Which means they are extremely nervous? Probably
you see a very attractive man and if he comes and talks to you, you get really nervous,
you get those butterflies in your stomach, which means you are going weak at the knees.
Also if you have to do a presentation and you have to present it in front of a big crowd
and you get very nervous. So yes that’s when you can use this idiom. You can say,
Oh my god, this big crowd is making me go weak at the knees. Which means that you are
extremely nervous? The next one is Cast iron stomach. Well cast iron stomach means, you
have a very strong stomach. You can withstand that food, something that is just so unpalatable
and your stomach can still stand it. It’s just basically you never feel nauseated or
you never feel sick to your stomach, you just have this cast iron stomach. A very strong
stomach. So if you end up eating a lot of spicy food, hot peppers, jalapenos and still
you don’t feel sick. Which means you have a cast iron stomach? And then the last idiom
that I have for you related to the body human body is, Land on your feet. Now land on your
feet means that to recover quickly from a very bad experience or a very bad situation,
probably you failed in a business, you went into a big loss or probably you fell sick,
but you have recovered really fast. Which means you have landed on your feet? So I have
this friend of mine, whose extremely lucky, he always lands on his feet. The reason because
he works hard, it’s not that he gives up easily even after a big downfall, he’ll
just recover quick. So which means he lands on his feet, so that’s how you can use these
idioms, this would help you to speak fluently, so go ahead please use
them and I’ll be back with a new lesson soon. Till then you take care....