Anna: 58yrs, Upstate NY. All 30 of these idioms are common 'round here, save perhaps "2 shakes of a lambs tail". I'm fascinated by English! Gracias, tommy
Sadly I don't need to watch this channel as I'm 100% English, but gosh, what a fantastic speaking voice you have, and what a gorgeous, charming girl! Little wonder you have so many subscribers! If only you could encourage more British girls to speak like you! :-)
Hello Anna! I recently found your channel and I'm delighted. You make amazing videos here dear! I studied English for a year with a native UK female teacher and since then I have fallen in love with your country and the pronunciation and accents. I'm not fluent yet, but I'm always learning more and more. And your channel fits like a glove for me. Babe, you are amazing and I became your fan! I need to tell you THANK YOU SO MUCH! Brazilian hugs and kisses.
"A dog's breakfast" = an awful mess / You made a dog's breafast out of that "A pigs ear" = a confused mess (not always as bad as a dog's breakfast) "the bee's knees" = something is amazing
To have ants in someone pants: means someone is so restless, specially kids. To have butterflys in your stomach: someone that is in love and can not hide it. Is quite notorious lol
I liked the video you made.You have explained different varieties of idioms.I did not hear them except one or two.These are more useful to the students writing competitive exams.You did a nice job.I could not but appreciate you.P Siva Rao,India. .
What a wonderful selection of animal and insect idioms there! Some more? What do you mean 'no.?' A bull in a china shop.(A clumsy person) To have butterflies. (To be nervous) To be dog tired. (Very tired) A dog with two tails. (To be very excited) The dog's woof woofs! (Perfection) The cat's whiskers.. (Something that is awfully nice) Don't be catty! (catty - to be nasty) A fly in the ointment. (A problem in the plan or a defect) A flea in the ear. (To be given a telling off) A pig in a poke. (Something that looks good at first glance but is in fact hopeless. - Example - A car with a knackered engine, but it did have nice bodywork. To be sheepish. (To be scared) And finally - What did one camel say to the other camel? Answer - 'Don't get the hump!'
@@EnglishLikeANative Thank you, Anna. We could also throw in these ones: 'Stop monkeying around' and To make a monkey of something' (Messing around and messing up). Let's also not forget this one - 'To have a frog in one's throat' (To have a sore throat and to be a bit croaky).
1) A fly in the ointment : it means a minor irritation or drawback, that spoils the enjoyment of something. 2) there's more than one way to skin a cat. 3) a pig in a poke.
"It was like hugging a bear completing the presentation in the environmental protection meeting. However it was completed in the end." The idiom 'Like hugging a bear.' In Norwegian is used to describe a task that is near impossible or EXTREAMLY hard. I liked this video and idioms are rather fun actually yes!!!!👍😅
I read somewhere that the idiom "to rain cats and dogs" is not used any more. That it is old fashioned. Is it true or do people still use it? Thank you a lot for your video's. They are brilliant ❤️
1) Fly on the wall 2) Bee's knees 3) To make a beeline 4) To kill two birds with one stone 5) Sitting duck 6) To chicken out 7) A wild goose chase 8) To take the bull by the horns 9) To horse around 10) Until the cows come home 11) Dark horse 12) Hold your horses 13) Straight from the horse's mouth 14) In two shakes of a lamb's tail 15) To go the whole hog 16) The cat's pyjamas 17) To let the cat out of the bag 18) Cat got your tongue? 19) Raining cats and dogs 20) To let sleeping dogs lie 21) In the doghouse 22) Dog eat dog 23) Ants in your pants 24) To smell a rat 25) Fishy 26)To have bigger fish to fry 27) Another cattle of fish 28) Crocodile tears 29) Elephant in the room 30) To have the lion's share
A great lesson! the cat's whiskers - sth is the best in the world to have a whale of a time - to enjoy oneself to have butterflies in one's stomach - to be nervous a night owl - a person who prefers to stay up late at night an early bird - someone who prefers to wake up early a lame duck - a loser an odd duck - a loony a fair cow - sth terrible a little bird told me - when we don't want somebody to know the source of the information a cash cow - the part of a business that makes a lot of profit for donkey's years - for a long time Oh, there are so many (I've just thought of a sacred cow and a guinea pig) :D Greetings! M.
Dear Anna, you are a great English teacher!! I am an italian student , unfortunately we do not learn a lot of things you explanained at school, I wonder why! Sorry for my English! Thanks for your lessons!
Your school was teaching you the important fundamentals of the English language. I teach the day to day language which is used in the UK, hence the name of my channel (English like a native). Both versions are valid and compliment one another. :)
Great video - not animal related - Love the old scottish one my nana used to say if we were close to getting into trouble - "your coats on a shoogily peg" 🤣
Hi, I am living in London for about 2 years now, and I am looking to do the IELTS exam. I was wondering if you could recommend me a book that I could use to help me out. Thank you.
We say “and pigs might fly” in response to hearing something we don’t believe will happen. For example - Dad: If we ask our son nicely he might do the washing up. Mum: and pigs might fly.
Ok, I've just reminded myself of these: to rabbit on - to talk a lot to pig out (is it an American phrase?) - to eat a lot, to gorge oneself to rush around like a headless chicken - to run frantically neither fish nor fowl - something indefinable like the cat that got the cream - to be proud (as proud as a peacock) :)
Fly on the wall Bees knees To make a beeline To kill 2 birds with a stone Sitting duck To chicken out A wild goose chase To take a bull by its horns To horse around Until the cows come home A dark horse Hold your horses Straight from the horse’s mouth In two shakes of a lambs tail To go the whole hog The cat’s pajamas To let the cat out of the bag Your cat got your toung It’s raining cats and dogs To let sleeping dogs lie In the dog’s house Dog eat dog Ants in your pants To smell a rat Fishy To have bigger fish to fry Another Kettle of fish Crocodile tears Elephant in the room To have a lion’s share
I love how many idioms are the same in my native language, or slightly different. Like two birds with one stone is in the Dutch: to catch two flies in one blow
Hi Anna, I hope you and your family are well. I would very much like to give my 11-year-old son a reader for the summer holidays. Would you please recommend what to buy? By the way, your new-born baby is very cute and the older as well. Kind regards from Argentina.
Hi i need to know sth. pls. I watch a series and there someone did hit a guy and he fell down and does not stir anymore. Than the other person says to him "You'd better not have killed him." What means the abbreviation " 'd " in that case? would? had? did? I can't figure it out help me pls.
@@EnglishLikeANative Thanks! This sentence is really illogical. It says "You shouldn't have killed him" but means "I hope you don't killed him". Is a little confusing. :)
Wow::beautiful teacher ..So I'll gives you my new idiom: when someone delivers to you a final result like (research, homework or yearly report ) what I say to him? "your work like an ants- a bee-" meaning every thing organized and a result so interesting and he make a great effort to accessing to success. So what is your opinion in my own idiom...
Special greeting from India you are the best English teacher
Anna: 58yrs, Upstate NY. All 30 of these idioms are common 'round here, save perhaps "2 shakes of a lambs tail". I'm fascinated by English! Gracias, tommy
I liked the way you addressed the lessons to your followers! Please do keep it up !
Sadly I don't need to watch this channel as I'm 100% English, but gosh, what a fantastic speaking voice you have, and what a gorgeous, charming girl! Little wonder you have so many subscribers! If only you could encourage more British girls to speak like you! :-)
Hello Anna!
I recently found your channel and I'm delighted.
You make amazing videos here dear!
I studied English for a year with a native UK female teacher and since then I have fallen in love with your country and the pronunciation and accents.
I'm not fluent yet, but I'm always learning more and more. And your channel fits like a glove for me.
Babe, you are amazing and I became your fan!
I need to tell you THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Brazilian hugs and kisses.
Thanks mam.
Love from Bangladesh. 🇧🇩
Thank you Anna! They are new idioms for me.
Fantastic! Thank you
Thank you
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Great, thanks
you are like a breath of fresh air., amazing
So glad I found you this was my wish for a long time. I’m a foreigner and want to improve my vocabulary ❤️❤️thank You
Great video!! Thank you
Thank you...Anna..!!! I love your videos..and your accent..
Nice, Lots of love from Pakistan.....
"A dog's breakfast" = an awful mess / You made a dog's breafast out of that
"A pigs ear" = a confused mess (not always as bad as a dog's breakfast)
"the bee's knees" = something is amazing
To have ants in someone pants: means someone is so restless, specially kids.
To have butterflys in your stomach: someone that is in love and can not hide it. Is quite notorious lol
Thanks again for your help and good job
Good morning and thanks for your help
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Nicely taught
I liked the video you made.You have explained different varieties of idioms.I did not hear them except one or two.These are more useful to the students writing competitive exams.You did a nice job.I could not but appreciate you.P Siva Rao,India.
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Thank you 🙏
Great Job. I am a teacher of English Too. I am from Morocco.
wish you could visit me
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Thank you for this video 😊
What a wonderful selection of animal and insect idioms there!
Some more?
What do you mean 'no.?'
A bull in a china shop.(A clumsy person)
To have butterflies. (To be nervous)
To be dog tired. (Very tired)
A dog with two tails. (To be very excited)
The dog's woof woofs! (Perfection)
The cat's whiskers.. (Something that is awfully nice)
Don't be catty! (catty - to be nasty)
A fly in the ointment. (A problem in the plan or a defect)
A flea in the ear. (To be given a telling off)
A pig in a poke. (Something that looks good at first glance but is in fact hopeless. - Example - A car with a knackered engine, but it did have nice bodywork.
To be sheepish. (To be scared)
And finally -
What did one camel say to the other camel? Answer - 'Don't get the hump!'
Absolutely brilliant, and a joke as well. It’s always a pleasure to read your comments. Thanks for your input.
@@EnglishLikeANative Thank you, Anna. We could also throw in these ones: 'Stop monkeying around' and To make a monkey of something' (Messing around and messing up). Let's also not forget this one - 'To have a frog in one's throat' (To have a sore throat and to be a bit croaky).
1) A fly in the ointment : it means a minor irritation or drawback, that spoils the enjoyment of something.
2) there's more than one way to skin a cat.
3) a pig in a poke.
Brilliant thank you.
Brilliant thank you
Which font is professional looking?
"It was like hugging a bear completing the presentation in the environmental protection meeting. However it was completed in the end." The idiom 'Like hugging a bear.' In Norwegian is used to describe a task that is near impossible or EXTREAMLY hard. I liked this video and idioms are rather fun actually yes!!!!👍😅
I love that idiom. I’ve never heard it before. Thank you for sharing.
Love it!
Thank you, I learn many need words!
🌷🙏🙏❤🙏. special greeting from Morocco. thank you my teacher.
I read somewhere that the idiom "to rain cats and dogs" is not used any more. That it is old fashioned. Is it true or do people still use it?
Thank you a lot for your video's. They are brilliant ❤️
Thanks for such informative vedio....
1) Fly on the wall
2) Bee's knees
3) To make a beeline
4) To kill two birds with one stone
5) Sitting duck
6) To chicken out
7) A wild goose chase
8) To take the bull by the horns
9) To horse around
10) Until the cows come home
11) Dark horse
12) Hold your horses
13) Straight from the horse's mouth
14) In two shakes of a lamb's tail
15) To go the whole hog
16) The cat's pyjamas
17) To let the cat out of the bag
18) Cat got your tongue?
19) Raining cats and dogs
20) To let sleeping dogs lie
21) In the doghouse
22) Dog eat dog
23) Ants in your pants
24) To smell a rat
25) Fishy
26)To have bigger fish to fry
27) Another cattle of fish
28) Crocodile tears
29) Elephant in the room
30) To have the lion's share
Ok thank you so much
These videos are the bees knees👏👏
Your videos are the bee's knees :)
I also adored animal loved to learn with❣😘
A great lesson!
the cat's whiskers - sth is the best in the world
to have a whale of a time - to enjoy oneself
to have butterflies in one's stomach - to be nervous
a night owl - a person who prefers to stay up late at night
an early bird - someone who prefers to wake up early
a lame duck - a loser
an odd duck - a loony
a fair cow - sth terrible
a little bird told me - when we don't want somebody to know the source of the information
a cash cow - the part of a business that makes a lot of profit
for donkey's years - for a long time
Oh, there are so many (I've just thought of a sacred cow and a guinea pig) :D
Greetings!
M.
Fantastic thank you for your input.
Dear Anna, you are a great English teacher!! I am an italian student , unfortunately we do not learn a lot of things you explanained at school, I wonder why! Sorry for my English! Thanks for your lessons!
Your school was teaching you the important fundamentals of the English language. I teach the day to day language which is used in the UK, hence the name of my channel (English like a native). Both versions are valid and compliment one another. :)
@@EnglishLikeANative I get it Anna, in Italy we say crocodile tears to mean fake tears too
We have this one too
I love so much every lesson.... Thanks a lot for supporting us all the time... God bless you, be safe.... 😇😘😀😷
Correct your order: I love every lesson so much. ;) Thank you for your kind words.
@@EnglishLikeANative thank you.. Lovely, I appreciate your help all the time.... good bye 👋 👋 😷😷😷
In English language daily,do the people or somebody not confuse if we talk with the idiom,Mz.Anna?
Absolutely not. English conversation is full of idioms, that’s why it’s important to become familiar with the most common ones.
@@EnglishLikeANative Thanks Mz.Anna..🤗🤗
Hello Anna, would you please enlighten me if OUT is necessary when a dentist tells us to rinse our mouth? 'rinse out' or just rinse?
A dentist may say “you may rinse” but wouldn’t say “rinse your mouth”. Alternatively they could use rinse your mouth out.
muchas gracias bella señorita Anna!
I've listened to dozens of videos of English lessons but you are the best ... Love!
You're so sweet. Dear teacher
Love from Bangladesh
I adored animal loved to learn with
Thank's so much for this video. I am from Indonesia 👍💗
Great lesson, great music at the end.
Great video - not animal related - Love the old scottish one my nana used to say if we were close to getting into trouble - "your coats on a shoogily peg" 🤣
Hey Anna!your classes are absolutely bee's knees!!did I say it right?thanks a lot for everything you teach us!
Your classes are absolutely THE bee’s knees. :). Thank you.
Thanks for the correction Anna!
Two shakes of a lamb's tail is so funny and I love to use this idiom.
Hi, I am living in London for about 2 years now, and I am looking to do the IELTS exam. I was wondering if you could recommend me a book that I could use to help me out. Thank you.
Keep up the good work n I must say u help many people by these videos
"When pigs fly" - meaning "never"
We say “and pigs might fly” in response to hearing something we don’t believe will happen. For example - Dad: If we ask our son nicely he might do the washing up. Mum: and pigs might fly.
Ok, I've just reminded myself of these:
to rabbit on - to talk a lot
to pig out (is it an American phrase?) - to eat a lot, to gorge oneself
to rush around like a headless chicken - to run frantically
neither fish nor fowl - something indefinable
like the cat that got the cream - to be proud (as proud as a peacock)
:)
Brilliant additions. To pig out is common here in the UK too.
@@EnglishLikeANative Thanks for a reply :)
Fly on the wall
Bees knees
To make a beeline
To kill 2 birds with a stone
Sitting duck
To chicken out
A wild goose chase
To take a bull by its horns
To horse around
Until the cows come home
A dark horse
Hold your horses
Straight from the horse’s mouth
In two shakes of a lambs tail
To go the whole hog
The cat’s pajamas
To let the cat out of the bag
Your cat got your toung
It’s raining cats and dogs
To let sleeping dogs lie
In the dog’s house
Dog eat dog
Ants in your pants
To smell a rat
Fishy
To have bigger fish to fry
Another Kettle of fish
Crocodile tears
Elephant in the room
To have a lion’s share
#17, Congratulations!
Great video.
I love you so much
Cool
Great Teacher
love and respect from Pakistan
Dear Madam
I want to ask
Dark Horse is for male or both male and female?
Both male and female :)
@@EnglishLikeANative Okay Madam. Thanks
Glad you are back. What about your music channel?
I have limited time for making music videos at the moment
I love how many idioms are the same in my native language, or slightly different.
Like two birds with one stone is in the Dutch: to catch two flies in one blow
Or my favorite one in russian is: to kill two hares with one shot
Hi Anna, I hope you and your family are well. I would very much like to give my 11-year-old son a reader for the summer holidays. Would you please recommend what to buy?
By the way, your new-born baby is very cute and the older as well.
Kind regards from Argentina.
Thank you. When you say a reader do you mean like a kindle?
@@EnglishLikeANative Here we call readers to the books that are not text books, those which tell stories. I don't know what a kindle is.
Amazing
I am a professor in English language but never heard of any of these idioms I must go back to school 😩😩😩
Please don’t worry. You can pick up idioms from TH-cam lessons no problem. :)
@@EnglishLikeANative you know that I am joking about being a professor, yes I must keep getting lessons from TH-cam ❤️
"the straw that breaks the camel's back" - the final event in a series of bad events that makes you very angry
Hi sweet🌻💖🌻
Some idioms I remember are: Cry Wolf, When Pigs Fly, A Wolf in Lamb's Clothes.
Brilliant additions thank you
you are so nice. I am obsessed with you.
Hey there. I have a question: to grab a bull by its horns or to grab a bull by it's horns? thanks in advance
Yes the first version is correct. There is a typo on the video.
Hi Anna, I heard we can say it for a baby before learning the gender of the baby is it correct? Also, Can I ask how old is ur baby?(I mean generally)
Its me first viewer of this video
Out of the 30 British idioms, which one does Ricky Gervais use? Is mostly impossible to understand. I like Ricky, but with support subtitles.
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AWESOME accent Anna😍🤗🇧🇷 I love your voice I gonna become member 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😍
Thank you. You know I do have a pronunciation course on englishlikeanative.co.uk :)
@@EnglishLikeANative wow this is amazing 🏃🏽♂️🏃🏽♂️🏃🏽♂️😍
Hello Darling, great video, i always loved your videos, i love the idiom, fly in the wall, bc of M.C song, greetings from Colombia.
One day my friend Richard called me a sneaky snake !!##!! and asked me to disappear ASAP. Today I realize, such a brilliant idioma
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" To feel like a canary in a coalmine" Meaning: It's the preamble something bad will happen.
Birds of the feather
By ITS horns
You are correct
Anna I love you Anna you more beautiful and more beautiful and more beautiful Anna i love you Anna
Not raining cats and dogs but cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey
Hi i need to know sth. pls. I watch a series and there someone did hit a guy and he fell down and does not stir anymore. Than the other person says to him "You'd better not have killed him." What means the abbreviation " 'd " in that case? would? had? did? I can't figure it out help me pls.
Had :)
@@EnglishLikeANative Thanks! This sentence is really illogical. It says "You shouldn't have killed him" but means "I hope you don't killed him". Is a little confusing. :)
idioms ha i like it.Thank u pretty!
Neither fish nor fowl means of indefinite character and difficult to identify or classify (similar with indefinite, indeterminate)
Yeah, I like animals ahah, a really interesting lesson Anna! Always so smart and gorgeous!
Thank you 🙏
By the way, there's a song by Alanis Morissette called Right Through You where she says: "Your shake is like a fish". Would that be an idiom?
It’s not really an idiom but I think she means that the person is slippery (dishonest)
@@EnglishLikeANative I got it... thank you, Anna 👍
Sseing you after a long time
Wow::beautiful teacher ..So I'll gives you my new idiom: when someone delivers to you a final result like (research, homework or yearly report ) what I say to him? "your work like an ants- a bee-" meaning every thing organized and a result so interesting and he make a great effort to accessing to success. So what is your opinion in my own idiom...
We have the phrase ‘busy bee’. You could say: someone’s been a busy bee = they have clearly been working hard.
I was told by an English friend not to use 'it's raining cats and dogs' because only English students and really old people say that. Is that true?
We say that all the time in the U.S. It’s common to use all of these in the States.
It’s used more often in creative writing but it’s such a commonly known idiom that it’s good to know it.
Thank you both.
To feel like a long-tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs
Wow I haven’t heard that one before
I've been here.
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When pigs fly.
Meaning : impossible to happen.
A: do you think he is going to.propose on her?
B: hhhhh.when pigs fly. I know him very well.
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It would be better if u put the definition on the screen with all words that u have taught