Name: 8個英語成語要用心學! (8 English Idioms to learn BY heart!)
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Hi. I'm Rebecca from engVid and today
we have another lesson on idioms.

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Yes, because you can never
learn enough idioms.

They're at school, they're at work,
they're when you go out to parties.

Also, when you're watching TV, or watching
a drama, you're watching sports, you hear

The sooner you learn idioms, the more advanced
your English will be, the more comfortable

you'll feel around people because people use
them and you understand what they're saying.

So today we're going to focus on eight idioms,
not three, eight, eight-okay?-idioms that

All right? So, let's get started.
The first one: "by heart". Okay?

Now, first of all, I've written
all of the idioms here.

These are the meanings, but they are all
mixed up, so don't look there. Okay?

You need to listen to me, and then
we'll check later. All right?

What does it mean to know something or
learn something by heart, by heart?

It means from your memory,
to know it just like that.

For example, when you were a child-right?-you
learned nursery rhymes probably, little poems

that people teach children, and now if I ask
you, you probably know them even though you

might not have said them for years,
you know them by heart. Okay?

When you say that somebody made something
by hand, it literally means by hand, not by

machine, that's the main point, so whether
it's embroidery, whether it's making something

out of wood, or making something out
of stone, you made it by hand. Okay?

The next one, now, here there are two expressions
that pretty much mean the same thing, so you

might hear someone saying: "by
chance" or "by coincidence".

That means something happened accidentally,
without any planning. All right?

And you were walking down the street, and by
chance you met your old teacher, Rebecca,

Okay, all right, so that happened by
chance or by coincidence. All right?

And the last one here is: "by
mistake" or "by accident". All right.

So, have you ever called someone that wasn't
the person you meant to call, you were trying

So then you called that number
by mistake or by accident.

That means you didn't plan to do it, it wasn't
on purpose, it was a mistake. All right?

So, if you did something without planning,
just happened, then which one of these idioms

There was no planning involved, it
happened by chance or by coincidence.

You did it "by mistake" or "by accident"
so when someone says: "Hello. Yes?"

And you say: "Oh, I'm sorry,
I called you by mistake."

The next one, if something is not made by
machine, then it is usually made "by hand".

And if you know something from memory,
that means you know it "by heart".

What does it mean when someone is the
kind of person who goes by the book?

When they say "the book", they're kind of
referring to the book of rules, the book of laws.

So, a person who goes by the book is a
person who follows rules very strictly.

Some people are more relaxed about rules, and
some people are very strict about the rules.

And those kind of people who are very strict
or who are following the rules very strictly

or applying them very
strictly are called...

Now, another expression, it's a very
commonly used one: "by and large".

Is it a good day where you are,
is it sunny, is it rainy"?

"By and large" means on the whole,
very generally, in general. Okay?

So you can use it to talk about anything at
all, you can use it to talk about something

personal, something social, talk about the
weather, talk about your studies, talk about

"A leap" is like a big jump, and
"bounds" is also like a big jump.

So, this expression: "by leaps and
bounds" means tremendously, a lot. Okay?

If somebody improved by leaps and
bounds, they improved a lot.

You might have this expression in your own
language, and basically what it means is "by

word of mouth" means
through people talking.

Not through advertising, not
through marketing. Okay?

By word of mouth, through
people telling each other.

So those are the four down here, now
let's try to match them up. Okay?

So, how do you say that something happened
tremendously and quickly, very fast, very

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