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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 220. The idiom today is to get out

  • while the going is good or to get out while the going is still good. Sometimes

  • you might hear both ways. All right. Let's look at that the note here. If someone gets

  • out while the going is good. All right. We can also say the getting is good too. So

  • if someone gets out while the going or getting is good, decide to leave a

  • place or situation before conditions get worse or it becomes too difficult to

  • leave or too difficult to get out. Okay. Let's take a look at several examples

  • here. We should sell our house now while the going is good . If we have an economic

  • crash, we may go through a housing slump that could last for many years. So if you

  • thought housing prices were still high enough you know, if you thought it was

  • near the top of the market or you thought housing prices were high enough

  • and you sensed that a major crash was coming , well you might want to get out

  • while the going is still good. If you have a huge crash like 2008 or worse

  • maybe you could spend a lot more years it may take years before the housing

  • market could recover or many years you never know depending on the size of the

  • crash. Okay let's look at number two here. The price of that stock has really

  • gotten into bubble territory. Yeah . Anybody who's ever bought or sold

  • stocks you know this could happen to a particular stock and if you own that

  • stock well that is the time to sell. Sometimes, sometimes you let greed take

  • over and you think I'll just keep going higher and higher but sometimes you

  • should listen to a little voice in your head said you should get out while the

  • going is good. We should sell our shares while the going is good or while the

  • going is still good. Yeah. You know take your profit. Take your profit while you can.

  • All right good . And number three here. Well this one's more about a place. These

  • two were more about situations. This one's more about a place. Many German

  • Jews sensed danger and got out of Germany

  • while the going was still good. Before World War two and before the Nazi Party

  • gained too much power. Remember the Nazis they were actually

  • elected into power and you know Hitler he had a book that was called Mein Kampf ..

  • Mein Kampf I think, and if you read it you would know a lot of things that you

  • know they they kind of had plans. So there were some famous people that got

  • out. I know Albert Einstein got out while the going was still good. While, while

  • he still could leave. Sigmund Freud left Austria while the going was still good.

  • Because they were both German Jews. Both of them could have been in trouble and

  • they were there were a number of others who did they were they sensed the danger

  • and they got out while the going was good. There came a point where you

  • couldn't get out anymore or was almost too difficult to get out. So this is an

  • example that refers to like a place where you know you want to get out while

  • you still can get out, before it gets too difficult to leave. Okay. Anyone, I hope you

  • got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 220. The idiom today is to get out

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英語家教Nick P成語(220) 趁勢而出 (English Tutor Nick P Idioms (220) Get Out While the Going is Good)

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