In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to hit the spot. Sometimes you are craving something. Sometimes you really want something to eat or to drink. And then after you eat or drink it, you say, "Oh, that hit the spot." When something hits the spot, it means it satisfies you. For me right now, this is kind of a bad thing. I've become a little bit addicted to diet soda.
I know it's not good for me and I know it has strange ingredients in it instead of soda or instead of sugar. But I find when I drink a diet ginger ale or a diet root beer, it tends to hit the spot. I feel very satisfied. Jen doesn't like it though. She doesn't like artificial sweeteners. So I only have one a week. But right now it's really seeming to hit the spot for me. I really, really enjoy it. The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is
tight spot when you are in a tight spot I should have put the word in there because you're often in a tight spot it means you're in a difficult situation let's say that I'm
I'm trying to think of an example here. You borrowed someone's car and you put a dent in it. You're kind of in a tight spot because now you have to tell them that you did something to their car. Let's say that you owe someone $1,000 and you also have to pay all of your bills and you're not going to have enough money. You are then in a tight spot. So you're in a difficult situation.
So to review, to hit the spot means something is very satisfying. When I have a chocolate bar, it really tends to hit the spot. And then when you are in a tight spot, you are in a very, very difficult situation. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from...
Rosario. And the comment is, "Great Bob. Sometimes I like to push it too far and I eventually get in trouble." And my response, "It happens to us all." I think we all at some point in our lives push it a little bit too far. We work a little too hard. We stay up a little bit too late. We maybe
Should rest and we don't maybe we work over the weekend. We push it too far And then you get into a little bit of trouble. Maybe you get sick. Maybe you're just exhausted For me when I push it too far it often results in me taking a sick day So it's like it's kind of counterproductive But hey someone asked I think in a previous video whether my town had Christmas decorations up yet There's some in this window
You can see there. That's not the town though. And if you look across the street, let's walk this way. I think you'll get a better look if I go this way. I think they look much better at night. I think there are these really tiny small snowflakes. If you look up on this pole, up by the green light there.
And then if you look at the other side of the road, I bet you guys can hardly see them. Let me flip around. I bet you guys can hardly see them, but I'll get as close as I can and then you'll be able to get a better sense. Again, I think they look much better at night. You can see right here there is a bit of a snowflake. There's a little chicken below it too because this town is known for having a lot of poultry farms around. In fact, we used to have
I'll walk backwards here. We used to have a festival called Poultry Fest in this town. We don't anymore. It used to happen every year in June. It was pretty fun, but I think they were having trouble getting organizers and so eventually we didn't have it anymore. So yes, there are some Christmas decorations up. Not a lot, but enough for it to feel festive at least at night. Hey, thanks for watching this English lesson. I'll see you in a couple days with another one. Bye.
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