and this

is brad

who as you may have noticed is a horse

today

fred and I are going to be helping you to improve your English

I been you’ve never been taught by by a horse before

hungry isn't it

In fact he eats all the time

He eats like a horse…of course, he is a horse

in English

if someone eats a lot

we can say that he eats like a horse

too

eat

like a horse

to eat a lot

What’s that you say Fred?

Anyway I heard it straight from the horse's mouth

we use this idiom when we've got some information directly from the person

responsible for it. For example

my boss is going to fire me

yes it's true, I've heard it straight from the horse's mouth

it means my boss told me directly

i didn't hear it from anyone else

Sad news I’m afraid

Fred's died

Which means there’s no point in trying to get him to work anymore

and how do we get a horse to work?

that's right

by hitting it

or as we say

Flogging it

Our next horse idiom

to flog a dead pulls which as you can see is completely pointless

to

flog

a dead

horse

this means

to waste effort at something that we have no chance of succeeding at

i sometimes feel like i'm flogging a dead horse when i'm teaching

my students

they never seem to learn, I don’t quite understand what the problem is

Very frustrating