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So in this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, he talks the talk, but does not walk the walk. When we say this about someone, when we say someone talks the talk, it means that when they're talking, they say they're going to behave a certain way, they say they're going to do certain things in the proper way or in the right way, so we say that they talk the talk, but when they walk the walk, it means that they actually do what they said they were going to do. So you might know someone like this in life. There are people in life that talk the talk, but they don't walk the walk. A good example would be someone who says I have been a criminal my whole life, and I am now a different person, I am no longer going to steal things from people. We know now that when people talk the talk, they don't always walk the walk. Sometimes they do. So if someone did say that, you would hope that they wouldn't just talk the talk, you would hope that they would also walk the walk. And that would mean that they would actually stop doing the bad things they said they were gonna stop doing.

The other phrase I wanted to look at today is the phrase all walks of life. When you say that people come from all walks of life, it means they come from all different levels of society and from all different parts of society. A good example would be if you were talking somewhere and people came to listen to you, and one of the people that came was a plumber and one of the people that came was a really rich person, and one of the people that came was a bit of a poor person, you could say that people from all walks of life came to listen to you talk. So to review, when someone talks the talk, but does not walk the walk, it means they say they're gonna do something, but their actions are actually different from what they said they were going to do. And when people come from all walks of life, it means that they come from all different backgrounds, different countries, different jobs, etc., etc. You could say this, people from all walks of life watch my videos on YouTube.

So anyways, thanks for watching, guys. I really do like that. Let's look at a comment from a previous video. And this comment is from Quaim Hussain, and Quaim says, "Today's phrases were very interesting." And my response was this, "I'm glad you liked them. Every phrase I teach is a phrase I actually hear at some point the day or week before the lesson." So I'm not sure if you know this, but first of all, let me thank Quaim, thanks for leaving the comment.

I don't know if you guys know this, but the phrases I teach on this channel are not from a book. The phrases are not from a long list of popular phrases or idioms that I found and that I'm teaching you them one by one. Here's what I do. I actually listen to all of the people around me at work, I listen to everyone in my family, I listen to everyone who talks on the television, and when I hear a phrase that I think would be a good phrase to teach all of you, I quickly write it down and I have a little list in a spreadsheet. So the phrases that I just taught you today were actually two phrases that I just heard at work earlier today. Someone actually used the phrase that people came from all walks of life, and someone actually used the phrase, well, yeah, he talks the talk, but does he walk the walk.

So again, the lessons you are getting here are pretty authentic. This is not some situation where I just go look up weird English phrases and teach them to you because I need a good idea for that day. This is actually me carefully listening all the time to every English conversation I have, and then making a little lesson out of it for you.

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