Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases ROCK BOTTOM and SOLID AS A ROCK

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, rock bottom. Now, when we talk about someone's life, and if we say that they've hit rock bottom, it's kind of a sad thing. It usually means they're out of money and maybe they've lost their job and they don't know what to do next. They don't have anything to use to buy food and they don't know how to earn a living. Sometimes we'll say that they've hit rock bottom. Sometimes when we talk about someone whose life has gone kind of off the rails, we would say maybe they're doing drugs or something that's just ruining their life and at a certain point they might hit rock bottom. That would be the point in their life where they just aren't doing anything healthy anymore. They've hit rock bottom. This does have a bit of a positive meaning as well. You can talk about prices when they hit rock bottom, that's good for you at a store. If you could say, this store has rock bottom prices, that means you can buy things there really, really cheap.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase solid as a rock. When something is solid as a rock it's just that, it's immovable. If I was to lift weights all summer my muscles would get really big and they'd be very firm and you could say, Bob is solid as a rock. Maybe you are, let me see, maybe you're buying something like a wheelbarrow for your garden and the wheelbarrow is made out of metal. You still might say, yep, this thing is solid as a rock. That means it's well built and it will last a very long time.

So to review, when someone hits rock bottom it means they're at the worst part of their life, not a nice time for them. And when you say something is solid as a rock, it means that it's built well or that it's just, well here's an example, this tree right here is solid as a rock. It's a very solid tree, solid as a rock.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Abdula. Now they changed how names work on YouTube, so it gives me a very long name with numbers at the end. So hopefully from this point on, I say names right. Thanks Bob, it's really useful. What is the meaning of off-white? And my response, it means that something is white but has a tiny shade of another color in it.

We often use the term off-white. Thanks for the comment by the way, Abdula, we often use the term off-white to talk about paint in a house. When Jen and I paint a room, sometimes we'll paint it off white and it'll have a little shade of blue in it, a little tint of blue, or we'll paint something off-white and it has a little bit of gray in it. So it's very difficult to have pure white in the flower world. Sorry, I've switched subjects here slightly. Jen and I grow a number of white flowers, but most of them are off-white. So when someone calls and says can I have a bunch of white flowers? We usually say we have some off-white, towards green. We have some off-white with a tinge of pink in it or a tinge or a shade of pink in it. We have off-white that has just a little bit of purple in it, so it's very difficult to find pure white in the natural world. I think almost everything is off-white to some degree.

Anyways, I'm just walking out here in the shade, trying to get outta the wind again. I feel like I'm always trying to get outta the wind. It's a very nice day. It's a Thursday right now. I'm just wrapping up this lesson and I'm going to be heading off to market. Jen is already there with one of my kids selling flowers and I had a fe

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Learn the English Phrases "rock bottom" and "solid as a rock"