Learn the English Phrases "scarred for life" and "That's going to leave a scar!"
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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase scarred for life. Now, this is a more serious phrase, and we use it to talk about when something traumatic happens to someone, and it's something that they will remember for the rest of their life. I guess the best example would be this. When I was a kid,

we were sitting waiting for a lift bridge to come down and a person hit us from behind. And in some ways, in a very small way, I was scarred for life. I'm always afraid when I'm stopped somewhere now that someone's going to hit our car from behind. Luckily, when I was a kid, when that happened, no one was hurt. We had a really big car. The people who hit us though,

were injured quite badly. And I do remember, I was probably nine or 10 years old, seeing the ambulance come to take those people out. So in a small way, I mean, other people have far more serious things happen to them, but in a small way, I was scarred for life. I don't teach serious phrases very often, but I think it's important. The second phrase I wanted to teach you is, that's going to leave a scar or that's going to leave a mark.

This phrase is sometimes used in a humorous way. Here's an example. Let's say you're watching a soccer game or a football game and someone kicks the ball and it hits another player in the face. You might react by going, ooh, that's gonna leave a scar or ooh, that's gonna leave a mark. Basically what you're saying is,

there's probably gonna be a bruise or something after that happens. You can also use this figuratively when something happens to someone that isn't an actual action. Maybe at work you get fired and you can say, you know, that's gonna leave a mark. That's gonna leave a mark for that guy or for you because yeah, losing your job is not fun. To review.

When you are scarred for life, it means something traumatic happened when you were younger and you still at times think about that in a negative way. You have negative emotions and then that's going to leave a scar or that's going to leave a mark. Simply means that something physical has happened or something, you know, an action has just occurred that will, you'll remember it for a long time. Um, uh,

Let's look at a comment from a previous video. I'm not in the right mood to teach serious phrases. It's a tough thing to do. You know, I want to do an English lesson about death at some point, but I don't know how to do it well. So I just never do it, but maybe someday. This is from Zervan. That old car needs a lot of gas. It's tough to have an old car. And my response for sure is,

I'm surprised how much better on gas our new car is. Although I am comparing it to my minivans, which are older and bigger. So maybe not a fair comparison. Thanks, Airvan, for that comment. But yeah, yeah, there was a car in a video the other day, a couple days ago. Whoa, that was a fast turn, Bob. And it was huge, it was enormous. What surprised me is many of you commented about the car, which was cool, but no one commented about the,

huge family of kids that walked by at the beginning. I didn't realize they were behind me. I was in the zone when I was making that English lesson. And then when I sat down to edit it, I was like,

How many kids are in that family? There was like one kid, two, three kids, four kids, five kids. It was a big family. So I'm glad my camera blurs people in the background out a bit because I don't want to inadvertently put people in a video that don't want to be. But yeah, it was a large family. Hey, how's everybody doing? I hope you're having a good day. I'm just trying to get some stuff done today because this weekend there is a trip. My school's going on a trip.

It's just an, like it's not an overnighter. I'm just, we're just going to a Blue Jays game. So, but I'm really looking forward to that. Jen's coming with as well to be a chaperone. So that should be fun. Anyways, I hope you're having a good day and I'll see you in a few days with another short English lesson. Bye.

Hi, Bob the Canadian here. Thank you for listening to this English podcast lesson. If you would like to support me in the work that I do as an online English teacher, please visit patreon.com slash bobthecanadian.