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  • So, E, I'm going to read this passage to you and...

  • "I'm all ears"?

  • Hi. James from engVid.

  • Today I'm going to use "all" in phrases and idioms, and teach you how you can use them

  • in common speech.

  • And I'm going to try and put them into sections that you will find most useful to help you

  • remember.

  • E writes...

  • Is saying right now: "He's all ears", and I bet you want to know what that means.

  • I'll explain that to you, and I have another seven other idioms.

  • Let's go to the board.

  • So, E's all ears.

  • Before we even start, let's talk about: What is "all"?

  • What does it mean?

  • Well, generally, it means as much as possible, or it can mean complete or whole.

  • The whole thing; all thing; complete.

  • Excuse me.

  • Or the parts of it.

  • Now, we understand that, what does an "idiom" mean?

  • An "idiom" is basically...

  • It could be a phrase or a clause, but it's a bunch of words that are together that when

  • you hear them, they don't actually make sense by themselves; but if you have the history

  • behind it, you get it.

  • One of my favourite ones to tell people is: "It's raining cats and dogs."

  • Clearly, dogs and cats don't fall from the sky, so you have to say: "What does that mean?"

  • Well, it means it's a lot of rain.

  • Okay?

  • So, there's a lot of rain coming down.

  • Now, it has an ancient...

  • Not ancient roots.

  • From, like 1600/1700s that there would be so much water coming down that dogs and cats

  • might, like, float away or, you know, be swimming down the streets, so that's: "It's raining

  • cats and dogs."

  • What does that have to do with what we're doing now?

  • Well, today, we want to look at "all" and how "all" can be used in different idioms

  • to have different meanings.

  • You probably won't know what they mean right away; but by the time I'm done, it shouldn't

  • be a problem.

  • So, let's look at the number one, the first one: I want to talk about emotional states.

  • So, it's a mental state or an emotional state; how you think or feel.

  • So, number one is: "It's all in your head."

  • That means imaginary; it's not real.

  • If something's all in your head, you go: "Oh, I think I have, like", I don't know.

  • I...

  • I don't want to say it because I don't want to give myself a disease.

  • People might say: "Oh, I think I'm growing four heads."

  • It's like: "It's all in your head.

  • It's your imagination.

  • It's not real.

  • It's not happening.

  • It's not going to happen."

  • Okay?

  • Or: "I think...

  • Oh, I think Beyoncé is going to leave her husband and meet me, because she was on a

  • TV program and she winked twice.

  • That was her code that she wants me."

  • It's in my head; it's not going to happen.

  • Okay?

  • Your friends will say: "You're crazy.

  • It's not happening."

  • What's another one?

  • We'll go down to number two.

  • Oh, sorry.

  • Before we go here, we'll go here: "All shook up".

  • Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm all shook up.

  • Those of you who like Elvis, that's an Elvis song: "All Shook Up".

  • What does "all shook up" mean?

  • Well, it's to shake...

  • "Shake" means to...

  • To disturb something.

  • In this case, to make it extremely excited.

  • You could be extremely excited if you win the lottery.

  • If I won 20 million dollars, I'd be all shook up, I'd be like: "What am I going to do?

  • I...

  • I...

  • I...

  • How...?

  • How do I get...?"

  • I'm excited.

  • I can also be very worried or disturbed when I'm all shook up.

  • If you get very bad news...

  • My baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, they lost again - I'm all shook up; I'm emotionally

  • disturbed.

  • Okay?

  • And you can be worried as well.

  • So that's emotional state with "all".

  • "All in your head".

  • Remember we said completely?

  • It's completely in your head.

  • "You're all shook up", it means as much as possible you've been disturbed.

  • Let's look to the other ones.

  • So, we talked about mental state, your emotional state; let's look at knowledge - how much

  • you can know.

  • All right?

  • So, if "somebody's not all there", you're not all there, it means it's not working properly.

  • Imagine if you had a car with four wheels, but only three tires.

  • They're not all there; something's missing.

  • You need one more tire to make four tires, four wheels.

  • Makes sense.

  • When somebody's not all there, something's wrong in the cabeza.

  • In the head, there's something missing.

  • Maybe half a brain.

  • You know?

  • You got to be careful.

  • If somebody goes: "Hey, watch out for E. He's not all there", it means he could be crazy.

  • Okay?

  • He could be not focused on the work.

  • And the other one, sometimes people say it, like: "That guy's not all there."

  • You stupid, you's very stupid.

  • Okay?

  • Because you only have half a brain so you can't think like other people.

  • Sorry, that just seems mean, but in case people say it, that's what they mean.

  • Now, the next thing about knowledge we're going to talk about is this one.

  • Okay?

  • If somebody says: "For all I know", it means: "For the knowledge that I have currently,

  • right now at this moment, all the information I have, this is what I believe will happen."

  • So I'm talking about knowledge, and it's like...

  • It's, like, my opinion on something that might happen.

  • So: "For all I know, that girl's going to get married to somebody else because she left me."

  • What do I know?

  • She left me, so then I'm guessing: "For all I know, based on my information of she left

  • me, she might get married."

  • Doesn't mean it's true; it's kind of my opinion based on what I know now.

  • "For all I know, this might be a great opportunity."

  • It means: All the information I have says it, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's true.

  • Usually when people say: "For all I know", it's used in a negative sense.

  • People don't go: "For all I know I could be rich."

  • Not usually.

  • It's usually negative.

  • "For all I know, that guy should be killed."

  • Okay?

  • Or will be killed.

  • "Know-it-all".

  • Hmm, that seems pretty good, right?

  • You're a know-it-all.

  • Actually, no.

  • A "know-it-all", and I did the short version, but I'll give you the long version to know

  • what a know-it-all is.

  • A "know-it-all" is someone who seems to have a lot of knowledge, tells everybody that they

  • have all the knowledge, and it irritates everybody that they have so much knowledge because not

  • everybody thinks they have all the knowledge that they have.

  • Do you want me to repeat that?

  • I'm not going to because I don't know how to say all of that again.

  • That is what a know-it-all is.

  • It's somebody who thinks they know all the answers, and they make sure they let everybody

  • else know this, but not everybody agrees.

  • So, if someone calls you a "know-it-all", it's not a compliment.

  • So, if you're like...

  • I go: "Hey, you're a know-it-all", you go: "Yes, it's true; I know everything.

  • That's what all the people say to me, I'm a know-it-all because I know all" - they're

  • insulting you.

  • It's something we don't like.

  • Okay?

  • So, we've gone from mental state, emotionally, imagining things, and being, you know, excited

  • or worried about something, to amount of knowledge you have.

  • And let's see how this would play into work as we shift over her, and we talk about work

  • and "all".

  • Okay?

  • Now, when "somebody pulls an all-nighter", it means to go from the evening, say about

  • 5 o'clock, all the way through the night to the next day.

  • It means to continually work through the night; not to stop.

  • Usually you do this in high-...

  • Not high school.

  • Yeah, high school and university.

  • You've got an essay to do, it's due the next day, you're like: "I'm never going to get

  • this done.

  • I've got to pull an all-nighter."

  • That's when you get a Red Bull or a coffee, you drink it, and you work all night to the

  • next day.

  • Cool?

  • Now, if something was an "all-nighter", it means it took all night.

  • So if you went to a party that was an all-nighter, the party didn't end at 2 o'clock in the morning;

  • it went from 5, 6, 7, it went on into the next day into the morning; it was an all-nighter.

  • Okay?

  • So, it's all night.

  • So, we've got "night".

  • Let's go to the opposite of "night", which is "day".

  • Okay?

  • "It's all in a day's work".

  • What does it mean: "It's all in a day's work"?

  • I heard one person say: "'All in a day's work' means easy."

  • That's not quite correct.

  • So, if you ever see that person, you should think carefully what they're saying.

  • It means that there's a job that's a usual job in my work which is actually quite difficult

  • or unpleasant.

  • I don't...

  • You know, so anybody else would go: "Ugh".

  • So, when you're a garbageman, okay?

  • You pick up garbage - sometimes it has dirty nappies.

  • It means little babies have went poo-poo and pee-pee in this, and you got to pick it up

  • and throw it in the truck.

  • And I go: "Oh, geez, oh, god, man.

  • Oh!

  • I'd kill myself if I had to do that."

  • You go: "Hey, dude.

  • It's all in a day's work.

  • It's just what I do."

  • It doesn't mean it's easy; it means it's a regular task or a regular thing I got to do

  • every day.

  • It's just in my day.

  • Okay?

  • Sometimes you have a stupid boss.

  • Yeah, you got a stupid boss and you got to look at the boss every day, and you go: "[Laughs]

  • It's all in a day's work.

  • It's all in a day's work."

  • It's an unpleasant task or an unpleasant thing to do.

  • By the way, the word "task" means job.

  • It means something that you have to do.

  • Okay?

  • It's not: "I have a task" meaning I'm working for somebody, they're paying me.

  • "I have a task", it means I have some work that I must do.

  • Like, cleaning your dishes is a task.

  • Right?

  • It's not a job; it's a task.

  • You don't get paid to do it.

  • All right?

  • Cleaning your toilet is a task you have to do.

  • Well, we've got that out of the way.

  • I have one over here.

  • I couldn't fit it in-sorry-but it's up here: "Pull out all the stops".

  • Notice with an "all-nighter" we had to stay up all night to do the work.

  • "All in a day's work", it means: "Hey, this may not be a good thing or it may be difficult,

  • but it's part of the job; you just got to do it."

  • All right?

  • All is done in the day.

  • When "you pull out all the stops", this means to put your heart and your mind, everything

  • into something - everything.

  • You want to put everything in there to get a result.

  • Okay?

  • So: "I want to meet a pretty girl."

  • You know, she's like walking down the street, she's really cute and I want to meet her,

  • and I go: "Pull out all the stops, man.

  • I'm going to get my car clean.

  • My car.

  • Get my hair cut.

  • Get some new shoes.

  • Get some pants, got a shirt.

  • I'm going to pull out all the stops.

  • Got the tie on.

  • Okay, I'm ready.

  • I'm pulling out all the stops.

  • She's getting the good stuff.

  • I even got the suspenders.

  • Look, got suspenders.

  • Yeah.

  • Pulling all the stops out."

  • You're like: "Whoa."

  • I'd be like: "I have to do everything."

  • You will do everything you can to get this person.

  • Okay?

  • So, you pull out all the stops.

  • At a job interview, you're like: "I went to the best schools.

  • I know the best people.

  • I know the best people.

  • I know the most terrific people."

  • Okay?

  • Pulling out all the stops at all times.

  • You shouldn't do it all time.

  • If it's once in a while, it's okay; but otherwise, it's hard to, you know, take and understand

  • Donald.

  • Next, the last one.

  • Now we've done mental state-dah-dah-dah-I want to work out to chaos; when things go

  • crazy.

  • Remember when it says: "complete" or "whole"?

  • That means the whole thing; all of it.

  • Okay?

  • A "free-for-all".

  • Some of you right now are going: "Free, like the lesson you're teaching."

  • I go: Yes, this lesson is free for all, but this is not "free-for-all".

  • A "free-for-all" is, like, a fight.

  • It means there is no rules; it just goes crazy.

  • Okay?

  • In Canada we have...

  • What's it called again?

  • It's Boxing Day sales.

  • Oh, no, no, no.

  • Let's talk about America - they have Black Friday sales.

  • Once you're done this video, go watch Black Friday sales in America; happens in November.

  • Then what I want you to do is come back, and I want you to watch our video or my video

  • here, and when you watch it, I want you to look at what a free-for-all looks like.

  • You'll see people grabbing, hitting each other - all to buy a pair of shoes.

  • It's a free-for-all.

  • There are no rules; it's crazy.

  • Okay?

  • So, it may be free for all, but it's not a free-for-all, here.

  • There are rules, and there are hyphens, so I'm going to put them in there.

  • Okay?

  • So, when it's...

  • When there's crazy and it's just madness, you go: "It's a free-for-all in here."

  • No rules.

  • Now, the next one is: "all hell broke loose".

  • And you might go: "Well, aren't they the same?"

  • Because it says: "suddenly".

  • But when all hell broke loose...

  • A "free-for-all" means, like, you could probably see this happening.

  • When "all hell breaks loose", it's sudden; it just: "Boom!" from nowhere.

  • And, you know, and people are talking and everything is going on, and then the bomb

  • went off, and all hell broke loose.

  • It was sudden change of craziness or madness.

  • So, they're similar but not exactly the same.

  • When you say: "all hell broke loose", completely everything changed but it happened in an instant;

  • when it was a "free-for-all", maybe there was a slow fight, like one person punched

  • another one.

  • Because usually, honestly, we use "free-for-all" for fighting, but if there was a "free-for-all"

  • in the bar, the drinks were not free for everybody.

  • All of a sudden people in the bar started fighting; one person hit one person, that

  • person got hit, and went: "What?"

  • Hit that person, and then all of a sudden the whole bar is fighting and kicking.

  • It was a free-for-all.

  • So, you might say: "All hell broke loose, and there was a free-for-all."

  • What?

  • You can put them together: Suddenly it went crazy and there were no rules; people were

  • fighting.

  • Cool.

  • See?

  • That's what you get when you learn English properly; it's what natives would say.

  • So, we've taken the idea of as much as possible, or complete or whole, and I've shown you how

  • in each case this is true.

  • Complete, like an "all-nighter"; it took the whole night, the complete night.

  • Right?

  • "All in a day's work", when you take the whole day, that's what has to be done in the day.

  • Okay?

  • "Pull out all the stops" - as much as possible, you do everything you can.

  • "All hell broke loose", right?

  • Complete chaos or madness.

  • And a "free-for-all", the same thing.

  • So we notice how "all" and its meaning can be used in these idioms, and it changes the...

  • The...

  • The structure so that you can get a fuller meaning.

  • Right?

  • You like that?

  • I do, too.

  • But, of course, you know what we have to do, right?

  • I have to test to make sure you really got it, so we'll do our test.

  • I'll give you a bonus and some homework.

  • And yeah, we'll do it right now.

  • Are you ready?

  • [Snaps] Okay.

  • So, once again, it is our time to do our little test to make sure you understand all that

  • I have taught you.

  • See?

  • I used "all".

  • Okay, so let's go to the board and look.

  • "Chan was very worried and disturbed when he woke up.

  • He believed there had been a big earthquake in China where his best friend Mr. E was staying.

  • Chan thought: 'Based on what I know, Mr. E could be seriously hurt.'

  • He knew that there would be a sudden...

  • There would be sudden chaos if the earthquake were bad enough.

  • He did everything possible to contact Mr. E. Then he suddenly woke up and realized it

  • was only his imagination."

  • It's not a bad story, but we can do better.

  • And the first thing we can do to do better is to underline or outline what needs to be

  • changed, and what idioms... "all" idioms or idioms with "all" we can use to change it.

  • So, what I want you to do is...

  • I'm going to wait a second.

  • Those of you guys who, you know, you think you pretty well got it, I want you to underline

  • quickly the points that you think should be changed.

  • And by the time I'm done speaking, you should be able...

  • You'll be done, and then we can check to see how well you did it.

  • Okay?

  • Give you a second or two.

  • Now, you can always fast-forward this video to the next part if you've already done this,

  • because I'm about to start now.

  • Okay, good.

  • So: "Chan was very worried and disturbed"-I'm going to say right here we learned an "all"

  • idiom for that one-"when he woke up.

  • He believed there had been a big earthquake in China".

  • That's okay. "...where his best friend Mr E. was staying.

  • Chan thought: 'Based on what I know'", okay, there.

  • "Mr. E could be seriously hurt.

  • He knew there would be sudden chaos if the earthquake were bad enough.

  • He did everything possible to contact Mr. E." Okay.

  • "And then he suddenly woke up and realized it was just his imagination."

  • Okay.

  • So, we've got one, two, three, four, and five things to look at.

  • Okay?

  • Now, "worried and disturbed", we...

  • We have an idiom for that.

  • We have one for: "based on what I know", "sudden chaos", "did everything possible to contact

  • Mr. E", and "his imagination".

  • I'm going to give you a couple of seconds to figure out or think.

  • Go over your list.

  • You can rewind the video right now, go back to the first screen and you'll see all the

  • ones I point out or indicated which would be appropriate substitutions for what's on

  • the board.

  • Now, there might be a word "chaos" - if you don't know what "chaos" means, it means when

  • things are not organized; it's just crazy.

  • It could be madness.

  • Okay?

  • All right.

  • Good job.

  • So, let's take a look at the board and see what we're going to do here.

  • Let's do the first one: "He was very worried and disturbed".

  • I'm going to erase that because we don't need this at all.

  • And you might remember something.

  • I did an Elvis impersonation, if you know what Elvis is - a singer from America.

  • "Oh, thank you.

  • Thank you very much.

  • Elvis.

  • I'm Elvis.

  • I'm all shook up.

  • Yeah, baby.

  • I'm all shook up."

  • It goes...

  • You're going to go on YouTube and go: "Elvis Presley.

  • He doesn't look anything like James."

  • He doesn't, okay?

  • So: "...was all shook up".

  • "Chan was all shook up when he woke up."

  • Remember?

  • He was disturbed.

  • He was like: "Ah!"

  • It was like he had a nightmare.

  • "He believed there had been a big earthquake in China"-Chan's from China-"where his best

  • friend Mr. E was staying.

  • Chan thought: 'Based on what I know...'"

  • What's another word...?

  • Way of saying: "Based on what I know"?

  • "For all I know".

  • Remember?

  • "For all I know", and that means based on the information I have, I think this might

  • be...

  • This could be true.

  • Right?

  • "For all I know this could be true", so we've got that one.

  • Next one: "For all I know Mr. E could be seriously hurt."

  • Okay.

  • "He knew there would be sudden chaos".

  • "Sudden chaos", what's another way of saying there?

  • "He knew that", look at all these words we have to get rid of.

  • Whoosh.

  • So many go.

  • "...that all hell would break loose".

  • "He knew that all hell would break loose if the earthquake were bad enough."

  • Do you remember what we talked about "all hell breaking loose"?

  • It's sudden, and there's craziness; no organization, no rules.

  • Just: Boom - madness.

  • So, then he thought that would happen if it was bad enough.

  • Now, what's the next one we have?

  • "He did everything possible to contact Mr. E." Well, we're going to look at that one.

  • Okay?

  • So we're going to put something back there.

  • "But he"...

  • "Stop".

  • I put "spot", and I meant "stop".

  • I didn't need to put this part out; I'll put the "contact".

  • So: "He pulled out all the stops to contact Mr. E." Remember when you pulled out all the

  • spots?

  • It means to do as much as you possibly can.

  • Everything you can do to do something.

  • Right?

  • Put all your energy, your mind, and your heart, and your soul into something.

  • And the last one.

  • Another way for saying: "his imagination" is...

  • Sorry.

  • Now, sometimes people say "mind".

  • I put: "...all in his head".

  • I'm going to put "mind" there, because sometimes people say "mind".

  • It's all in your mind; it's all in your head.

  • So: "...it was all in his head".

  • So, now we read the story here and it changes to: "Chan was all shook up when he woke up.

  • He believed that there had been a big earthquake in China where his best friend Mr. E was staying.

  • Chan thought: 'For all I know Mr. E could be seriously hurt.'

  • He knew that all hell would break loose if the earthquake were bad enough.

  • He pulled out all the stops to contact Mr. E. Then he suddenly woke up and realized that

  • it was all in his head."

  • So, basically, he was in a dream, having a dream.

  • A lucid dream.

  • [Laughs] A lucid dream - that's another tale for another language lesson.

  • Maybe we could do one on dreaming and the states of dreaming.

  • You might like that.

  • Yes, you would.

  • Anyway, before I go, I have to do the bonus as per usual and then I want to give you your

  • homework.

  • Don't you feel like you're in school?

  • And then you're probably going: "Yeah, because I hate you just like I hate my real teacher."

  • [Laughs] Anyway.

  • Okay.

  • So: "to give your all" is similar to "pull out all the stops".

  • It means to...

  • To do your best.

  • When you give your all, you give everything you have; you do your best.

  • And you remember the diagram of complete and whole, and as much as possible - that's where

  • that comes in.

  • Do you remember Mr. E said he was "all ears", and I had that thing...?

  • Funny thing?

  • Well, those are his ears.

  • It means: "I'm completely listening".

  • So, once again, completely.

  • "I'm all ears.

  • I'm focused.

  • I'm completely focused on you.

  • I'm listening."

  • Okay?

  • "Don't put all your eggs in one basket".

  • "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" means if you put everything you have in one area,

  • it could be lost or destroyed, or you risk losing everything.

  • Now, you can imagine having a...

  • Say, a big glass bowl on the edge of the table-okay?-and you put all your eggs in it, and then somebody

  • bumps by.

  • Well, all those eggs are going to go on the floor, or crack and be gone forever, so it

  • might be better to put some eggs in one glass over here and over here, so if one gets destroyed

  • you still have something left.

  • We usually talk about this when...

  • In business, when businesspeople say: "Don't put all your money in one place.

  • You could lose all of the money."

  • It's better to spread it out and spread out the risk.

  • That's what this means: Spread out the risk.

  • And "risk" means to put something in a position that it could be lost and you won't get it

  • again.

  • All right?

  • And: "All yours".

  • Ah, I like this one.

  • L'amour.

  • When someone says: "I'm all yours", in romantic senses, it means: "I love you.

  • Do with me what you will.

  • I'm all yours.

  • Completely yours."

  • Or in a more friendship thing, if someone says they're busy working and they get up

  • from the table, and go: "Okay, I'm done.

  • I'm all yours."

  • It means: Now, whatever you need, I'm here to help you with.

  • All right?

  • So, you could say: "All yours".

  • Or you can offer...

  • Imagine...

  • I did imagine this.

  • Somebody gets keys to a brand new Porsche, 2018, and goes: "Hey, this baby is all yours."

  • Throws you the keys, it belongs to you completely.

  • Yeah, just like I do and so does engVid - it's yours; we're here because you're here.

  • Anyway, before I wrap up with this, I just want to say your homework is: Write a story-this

  • is cool-about a big exam that you have to take at school.

  • Okay?

  • I want you to include a party, I want you to include a fight, and I want you to include

  • working all night.

  • I said: "fight" and "night" because they rhymed.

  • Yeah, okay, it's kind hokey.

  • Kind of bad.

  • Kind of bad.

  • But yeah, try to do that, like: "There was a free-for-all going on, and then we had to

  • pull an all-nighter".

  • You know, all of that.

  • So you can just play with the language.

  • The beauty of language is you can play with it and make it all yours.

  • Right?

  • Cool.

  • Anyway, so I'm going to let you go, but before I do what I want you to do is go to engVid,

  • do your test.

  • Okay?

  • There's always a quiz there at www.engvid.com.

  • And don't forget to subscribe.

  • There's a little bell, ring my bell.

  • Ring it, and then any video I get comes straight to you.

  • Okay?

  • And as always, thank you very much.

  • Your...

  • Your participation in this little experiment is always appreciated and valued.

  • You have a great night, or a great day, or a great afternoon - wherever you are, whenever

  • may.

  • See you soon.

So, E, I'm going to read this passage to you and...

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15 English Expressions & Idioms using 'ALL'

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