Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO THROW SOMEONE UNDER THE BUS and THE WHEELS FELL OFF THE BUS

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to throw someone under the bus. Now, this sounds horrible, but it's not something you actually do. You would not actually throw a person under a bus, but if you and someone else do something, and the other person blames you for it, they would be throwing you under the bus. Sometimes this happens in workplaces. Sometimes people work on something, and something goes wrong. And the boss says, who did this? Whose fault was it? And maybe it's two people that did it, and the one person says he did it. They throw that person under the bus. They pretend that they didn't do anything wrong, and they basically say that the other person did it. It's not nice to throw someone under the bus, but it definitely does happen at some workplaces. And it sometimes happens with students too. They'll blame another student for something, they'll throw them under the bus.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the wheels fell off the bus. We use this to describe any situation where things start to go wrong. We sometimes use this to talk about a sports team when they're losing. You could say they were playing really great in the first half, and then the wheels fell off the bus. And in the second half the other team got way more points than they did. So anytime you describe a situation where something's going badly, you could say the wheels fell off the bus, or the wheels are falling off the bus as it happens.

So to review, to throw someone on the bus means to, sorry to throw someone under the bus means to blame them for something that went wrong, maybe at work, or maybe if you're a student doing a group project. And when you say the wheels fell off the bus, it means that something went wrong, and now things aren't going well. Sometimes we just say the wheels fell off too. You could say, oh, in the second half, the wheels fell off.

Let me get the comment out of my pocket here. Let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from IOT. Hello, dear teacher, wear a tuque, please. It seems it is cold there, and my response, I will make sure to wear one in the next video. I will make sure to wear one in the next video. Let me make sure I read that right.

Yes, I'm wearing one in this video, because it is severe winter out here right now. You can see that my van is covered in snow. Look how deep this is if I put my hand in here. I could even write on here if I wanted to. I could write hello. Okay, that's not the greatest, but you can see what I'm saying. If we walk along here, let me just do the little spinny thing.

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Learn the English Phrase TO THROW SOMEONE UNDER THE BUS and THE WHEELS CAME OFF THE BUS