[Music]
today we’re doing some scary expressions
that we use all the time if you’re
scared of skeletons too bad did you know
that there’s a scary skeleton living
inside you right now to have some
skeletons in your closet or to have a
skeleton in your closet this expression
suggests that you have killed someone
and put the body in your closet but now
of course a skeleton in your closet just
means you have a very bad hidden secret
if anyone found out it would be very bad
for you it might ruin you so typically
if you think someone has a very bad
secret maybe they killed someone
something they’ve done is very bad I
don’t trust this guy you might say hmm
but that guy has a few skeletons in his
closet it’s super interesting how
expressions evolve over time this
expression might sound familiar because
it’s quite similar to to be in the
closet to be in the closet means you’re
gay but it’s kept a secret you are in
the closet and if you tell people for
the first time that you’re gay you’re
now open about being gay you come out of
the closet more simply you come out and
at that stage you are out to be out
that’s the expression then to out
someone means you reveal someone’s
secret that they did not want people to
know not necessarily about being gay but
something that they didn’t want anyone
to know so if you tell someone secret to
everyone you out them for example
Allen didn’t want anyone to know that
he’s secretly an alien Janet his
co-worker told everyone in the office
that he’s actually an alien thanks Janet
as dead as a dodo the dodo has been dead
since around 1690 so definitely this
animal is not alive anymore so when
something is no longer an issue it’s no
longer relevant everyone knows this
thing is dead literally or figuratively
it is as dead as a dodo or more fun as
dead as disco for example did you kill
my husband Lakha asked showed it man
he’s as dead as disco a bucket list
a bucket list is a list of things you
want to do before you die so for example
swimming with dolphins going skydiving
seeing the Grand Canyon these are things
that might be on your bucket list let me
know in the comments what is on your
bucket list next one is the graveyard
shift working a graveyard shift
typically means you work the very very
late shift at work if you work the
midnight to 8:00 a.m. shift you are
working the graveyard shift have you
ever worked the graveyard shift
do you now work the graveyard shift this
goes nicely with Saved by the Bell okay
class today we’re doing presentations
does everyone have their presentation
finished
timmi you are next will you please do
your presentation for the class
okay I’m sorry Timmy we don’t have time
today tomorrow you’ll do your
presentation Timmy just got Saved by the
Bell he escaped a difficult situation
because something interrupted and in
that situation you say you are Saved by
the Bell who no more time Saved by the
Bell
so usually time interrupts like the end
of class the end of a meeting something
like that one possible origin for this
expression comes from the 1500s
apparently people were buried alive
quite often they would sometimes find
scratch marks on the lids of coffins
which made people think oh maybe we
should check if people are really dead
or not
I mean medicine in the 1500s wasn’t
exactly amazing and apparently it
happened so often that Chopin’s last
words were swear to make them cut me
open so I won’t be buried alive
so they started tying string to the
wrists of dead people burying them
having the string go through the coffin
through the ground and up above the
grave attached to a bell so if they woke
up two days later Romeo and Juliet style
they could ring the bell
someone could quickly dig them up and
save them Saved by the Bell and of
course someone had to be there in the
very late hours from about midnight to
8:00 a.m. to watch the graves to listen
for bells to save people who had been
buried alive that person was working you
guessed it the graveyard shift now it
has been argued that this story is
bollocks it kind of sounds like bollocks
and in fact this expression comes from
boxing when a boxer is fighting and he’s
almost knocked out but then all of a
sudden ding-ding-ding end of the round
the boxer is saved literally by the Bell
this one makes more sense the bell above
a grave thing just sounds more fun
though I I don’t know I prefer to
believe the grave one because it’s
verifying but I’m not a historian if
your historian please tell me what
really happened because that the Belwood
the great thing that’s just crate thanks
for watching I hope that lesson didn’t
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today we’re doing some scary expressions
that we use all the time if you’re
scared of skeletons too bad did you know
that there’s a scary skeleton living
inside you right now to have some
skeletons in your closet or to have a
skeleton in your closet this expression
suggests that you have killed someone
and put the body in your closet but now
of course a skeleton in your closet just
means you have a very bad hidden secret
if anyone found out it would be very bad
for you it might ruin you so typically
if you think someone has a very bad
secret maybe they killed someone
something they’ve done is very bad I
don’t trust this guy you might say hmm
but that guy has a few skeletons in his
closet it’s super interesting how
expressions evolve over time this
expression might sound familiar because
it’s quite similar to to be in the
closet to be in the closet means you’re
gay but it’s kept a secret you are in
the closet and if you tell people for
the first time that you’re gay you’re
now open about being gay you come out of
the closet more simply you come out and
at that stage you are out to be out
that’s the expression then to out
someone means you reveal someone’s
secret that they did not want people to
know not necessarily about being gay but
something that they didn’t want anyone
to know so if you tell someone secret to
everyone you out them for example
Allen didn’t want anyone to know that
he’s secretly an alien Janet his
co-worker told everyone in the office
that he’s actually an alien thanks Janet
as dead as a dodo the dodo has been dead
since around 1690 so definitely this
animal is not alive anymore so when
something is no longer an issue it’s no
longer relevant everyone knows this
thing is dead literally or figuratively
it is as dead as a dodo or more fun as
dead as disco for example did you kill
my husband Lakha asked showed it man
he’s as dead as disco a bucket list
a bucket list is a list of things you
want to do before you die so for example
swimming with dolphins going skydiving
seeing the Grand Canyon these are things
that might be on your bucket list let me
know in the comments what is on your
bucket list next one is the graveyard
shift working a graveyard shift
typically means you work the very very
late shift at work if you work the
midnight to 8:00 a.m. shift you are
working the graveyard shift have you
ever worked the graveyard shift
do you now work the graveyard shift this
goes nicely with Saved by the Bell okay
class today we’re doing presentations
does everyone have their presentation
finished
timmi you are next will you please do
your presentation for the class
okay I’m sorry Timmy we don’t have time
today tomorrow you’ll do your
presentation Timmy just got Saved by the
Bell he escaped a difficult situation
because something interrupted and in
that situation you say you are Saved by
the Bell who no more time Saved by the
Bell
so usually time interrupts like the end
of class the end of a meeting something
like that one possible origin for this
expression comes from the 1500s
apparently people were buried alive
quite often they would sometimes find
scratch marks on the lids of coffins
which made people think oh maybe we
should check if people are really dead
or not
I mean medicine in the 1500s wasn’t
exactly amazing and apparently it
happened so often that Chopin’s last
words were swear to make them cut me
open so I won’t be buried alive
so they started tying string to the
wrists of dead people burying them
having the string go through the coffin
through the ground and up above the
grave attached to a bell so if they woke
up two days later Romeo and Juliet style
they could ring the bell
someone could quickly dig them up and
save them Saved by the Bell and of
course someone had to be there in the
very late hours from about midnight to
8:00 a.m. to watch the graves to listen
for bells to save people who had been
buried alive that person was working you
guessed it the graveyard shift now it
has been argued that this story is
bollocks it kind of sounds like bollocks
and in fact this expression comes from
boxing when a boxer is fighting and he’s
almost knocked out but then all of a
sudden ding-ding-ding end of the round
the boxer is saved literally by the Bell
this one makes more sense the bell above
a grave thing just sounds more fun
though I I don’t know I prefer to
believe the grave one because it’s
verifying but I’m not a historian if
your historian please tell me what
really happened because that the Belwood
the great thing that’s just crate thanks
for watching I hope that lesson didn’t
suck if you like that lesson and want to
see more definitely click Subscribe then
click the bell that means you’ll get
notifications whenever I upload a new
lesson you’ll be the first to see it you
can also support these lessons on
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lessons click here
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