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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, it's none of your business. So I was walking out of class today and there were two students in the hall and the one student said, what did you get on your math test? And the other student said, it's none of your business.
In English, when you say it's none of your business, it's very informal and it's a little bit rude, but you're basically telling the other person that they're asking a question you don't want to answer. They're asking for information that you don't think they need to know. A test is a great example. If I took a test and you said to me, if you were a friend of mine and said, hey, how did you do on your math test? I'd probably say, hey, it's none of your business.
Basically, what I'm saying is I don't want to tell you. Maybe I did really good, maybe I didn't do very good at all, but in any case, it's none of your business. So remember, it's a little bit rude, it's very direct. It's not a kind way of answering someone. The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase mind your own business. This means exactly the same thing, and I think I taught this already about four years ago.
If someone said to me, "Hey Bob, when are you going to buy a new car?" I would say, "Mind your own business." Again, a little bit rude, very informal, and very direct. Like it's not a happy way of saying it. If someone said, "Hey Bob, when are you going to buy a new car?" And I said,
I don't know, I haven't really thought about it, but I actually had. That's kind of a nicer way to do it. So anyways, to review, it's none of your business and mind your own business. They mean the same thing. It's a way of telling someone
that the questions they are asking are too direct. They're asking for more information than you're willing to give them. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Denny Pizza Hut. It's a product placement in Bob's Short. And my response, they should sponsor me. Yeah, I think in the last video, there was, I was walking around town, right? So you saw probably Pizza Hut and Gino's Pizza and Gino's Pizza.
No, not Gino's, Nino's. There's a Gino's pizza and a Nino's pizza in my town. But yeah, lots of pizza places. In fact, Smithville, the town of Smithville has five pizza places. A little bit strange. Anyways, you can see here, it's this time of year. It's the time of year when we put the little markers along the driveway. And we bought some extra ones this year. And there's some on this side as well.
We put these along the driveway because eventually it's going to snow and then eventually it gets very, very difficult to see where the driveway is, both when driving in and out when there's a bit of snow on the ground, but also when using the snowblower. I need to know where the driveway is so that I don't go off the driveway and into the lawn. So not sure if you can see them very clearly. We bought some bright orange ones. And then this type here,
We have a few of these. I think we have four of these now. This one is actually a reflector. So the light coming from your headlights or from your reverse lights lights that up. And by the way, if you didn't know what headlights were, the headlights are on the front here. We call those fog lights. I don't really always use them in the fog. And then on the back, you have these which are your reverse lights. So when you drive backwards,
or when you drive in reverse, you can see a little bit at least when you're going in reverse. Mine aren't as bright as they should be, or my eyesight is starting to fade at night. I think it's getting a little harder for me to see at night, one of those two things. Anyways, thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this little English lesson about reflectors and telling people that something's none of their business, and I'll see you in a few days with another one. Bye.
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