Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases BACK-BREAKING WORK and TO BREAK OUT

In this English lesson, I wanted to teach you the English term back-breaking work. Now, this is your back, and it's something that gets really sore when you do back-breaking work. Back-breaking work is any kind of physical labor. If you see behind me here, we have the dahlia patch, and it is pretty much done for the season. Now, what makes dahlias different than other flowers is that there is a root that we have to dig out in the fall. We have to start digging out the roots, and that is back-breaking work. We have to go in, and we have to dig out every single root with a shovel. So I know it looks like there's lots of flowers here. They aren't actually in that good a shape if I zoomed in. These flowers are almost done for the season, and there's going to be a lot of back-breaking work in the next few weeks as we dig them all out.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to break out. Now, this has a lot of different meanings, but I'm gonna use it in this way. In order to dig up these dahlias, we are going to have to break out the shovel. In English, when you say you're going to break something out, it means you're going to get it out, okay? It's just a funny phrase we use. Maybe you are going to go to someone's house for a party, and they're celebrating something, you might want to break out the champagne if you drink champagne, but definitely, in order for us to dig up all of these dahlia roots, we're going to have to break out the shovel. We're gonna have to get in here and just dig them up by hand. There's no nice machine... Oh, the shovel just fell. There's no nice machine to do this in a nice, easy way. Actually, there is one, but it's really expensive, and this patch isn't big enough for us to afford that.

So to review, any kind of work where you might hurt your back is work that we would say is back-breaking work. So this is definitely going to be back-breaking work, and to break out means to get something out, to use it or, if it's something like champagne, to drink it.

Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Reza. The comment is the phrase that I learned from this video was swatting a mosquito, and then my reply is the secret is that you have to swat them before they bite you.

Thanks, Reza. That was from the previous video where I was being attacked by mosquitoes as I was making the video. Thankfully, it has really cooled off here, particularly at night. The days are still quite warm. You can see I'm still wearing a short-sleeve shirt, but it has really cooled off at night, and it seems like most of the mosquitoes are gone for the season. I was out last night, and it was very, very nice. There were not very many mosquitoes at all. It was very pleasant.

Wow, that sun is really bright, though, isn't it? Let me turn a little bit. So anyways, yes, let me give you a better view of all of these dahlias. They are beautiful, but at the same time, it's hard for you to see, maybe. I'm not sure if this will focus, but they're all slightly imperfect. We had some frost last night.

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Learn the English Phrases BACK-BREAKING WORK and TO BREAK OUT