Learn the English Phrases "to bottom out" and "from the bottom of my heart"
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- In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to bottom out. So whenever something is going down, like the price of a stock on the stock market, eventually it will bottom out and then it will start to go back up again. So to bottom out means kind of to hit the bottom. This can also happen with a car. If you drive an old car over some railroad tracks or a really big bump,

Sometimes the shocks compress, but they compress all the way and then it's just this really loud bang. And we usually say that's when a car bottoms out. I used to have a car where if I drove it too fast over a bump, it would bottom out. You would just hear it go bang. In fact, my blue van is starting to do that as well. The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is from the bottom of my heart.

This is usually a way to thank people. It usually goes with the phrase thank you. So I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for watching my English lessons. Sometimes we associate the heart with gratefulness, thankfulness, love. I am just extremely grateful. So thank you from the bottom.

of my heart for watching my English lessons. So to review, to bottom out means when the price of something or a graph is going down, eventually it hits the bottom and starts to go back up again. Well, hopefully. And then from, oh, and a car can do it as well.

bang, that's what it sounds like when your car bottoms out. And then from the bottom of my heart is usually a phrase we say when we say thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Constantine.

Not only Canadian technique though, that's the pulling glove on with mouth. We all use it now and then. Well, teeth are for chewing after all. Sticking, are not only for chewing after all. Stick and carrot policy is common at school. The challenge is to find a balance. Oh, you know the ropes, sorry. Any chance of sharing your teaching of stick?

And my response, my main stick is to put a zero in the grade book and then message the student and parents and say, it's not too late. I can always replace the zero if you hand something in. So I'm not sure if the words matched what you saw on the screen because when I printed, it didn't print everything. So there might be a little bit of a discrepancy. So Constantine, thank you, fellow teacher for sending that comment. Yeah, what am I gonna do next? Well, you see that big,

thing back there that's a water tower. I'm actually here with my water jug because I need to go to this tap here and I need to fill up this water jug. We fill our water jugs up in town. That didn't work so good. I think that's what this little, whoa, that is frozen solid. There we go. Hopefully you're able to see that. Now I can do this and then I can flip this tap here.

and it will fill up my jug. We do not drink the water from our cistern. It's collected from the rain that falls on the roof of our house. So we get our drinking water from town here. There's a filling station. You can pause and read that if you want. If you wanna read the fine print. There's also a camera on me right now somewhere. Oh, it's almost full. I need to stop it.

Oh, it overflowed a little bit. That's probably why there's so much ice on the ground here. People haven't stopped it in time, but now I have in my pocket, if I didn't lose it, my little blue lid. This is really hard to do with one hand. And then I will put it in my car. Ugh!

There we go. That was Bob getting water for the family. Hope you enjoyed that. I'll see you in a few days with another short English lesson. 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.