Learn the English Phrases "to push through" and "to push it too hard"
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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to push through. This past weekend, Jen was sick and I was a little bit sick, but I decided to push through. I took one day off work and I probably went back to work one day too early because I decided to push through. When you

push through. It means you do something when you're not quite strong enough or have enough energy to do it. When you're training for a sport, when you're lifting weights, the last 10 or 11 times you do the weight, you might have to push through. You have to give a little extra energy. And sometimes when you're sick, you just decide to go to work and push through. And sometimes that's a bad idea. It actually led to me not getting as much work done as I wanted to this week. So to push through simply means to...

Kind of just dig deep, find the energy somewhere to do something maybe you don't have the energy for or you're just a little bit too sick to do. The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to push it too far. This is what happens when you push through. Sometimes you push it too far. Let's say...

This past week, if I had done everything that I wanted to do, I probably would have lost my voice. I would have pushed it too far. When you push it too far, sometimes things go wrong or sometimes things break. Let's say your car is making a funny noise and you're like, oh, I'll get that fixed in a week or two. Maybe you are going to push it too far and the whole car is just going to stop working.

So to review, to push through means to find the energy somewhere to do something, even though you don't have the energy for it, or maybe you're a bit sick, or you just don't have the enthusiasm. You just decide to push through. And to push it too far means to simply push

Keep doing something or keep using something beyond when you should have stopped or gotten that thing fixed or if it's like your throat looked at by a doctor. Anyways, I feel great now, by the way. I took the hood off because can you hear the... I just thought it was probably making a funny sound with the microphone. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video from Brent from American English with this guy.

And then my response.

It's age-related here. The lower grades must stay at school. The older grades, grade 11 and 12, are allowed to go to town. So my school is in a town, but it's on the edge of town, and sometimes we refer to the center of town as the town. But thanks, Brent and Constantine, for giving me a bit more insight into how your schools work. Yes.

our older students are allowed to go. In Canada, when you are in grade 11, or what the Americans would probably call junior year or the 11th grade, that's usually the year where you get your driver's license. At some point, you get your learner's permit or beginner's around grade 10 into grade 11. And some students in grade 11 right around now are starting to get their driver's license. So their age...

I think age 16 and then eight months if you went to driver's education school. At age 16 years and eight months, you can get your driver's license. So that's when we usually start to see students in grade 11 starting to go to town for lunch. So, but anyways.

Did it say almost four minutes already? Have I lost track of how to make these lessons and keep them contained into a certain amount of time? Possibly. Anyways, thanks for being here. Thanks for watching. I'll be back in a few days with another short English lesson and I'm feeling great. I'll see you at the live stream as well. If you're watching this before 7.30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on a Friday, I'll see you in just a bit. Bye. Bye.

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