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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "That's getting old!" Now I should mention, I think I did this phrase a couple of years ago, but I did just hear this the other day again. It's something we say when someone tells the same joke over and over again, and it's not funny anymore. Or they're saying something, that's getting old, the geese flying by making noise. That's getting old. It's when you refer to something that was maybe nice, or amusing or funny, or didn't bother you at one time, but because it happens over and over again, you're getting tired of it. You would then say that's getting old. I once worked with a guy that always called me Bub instead of Bob. It was kind of a funny thing that he did, but eventually I just said, hey, you know what? That's getting old. My name's Bob, not Bub, just use my real name.

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Anyways, oh, I'm losing track of where I am. The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, "Old enough to know better". So we use this phrase when someone, usually a younger person who is a teenager, or maybe in their twenties, when they do something and they should have known not to do it. Maybe they drive their car too fast and they go in the ditch or something like that. We would say, man, they were old enough to know better. They did something that they were old enough they should have been wise enough as well not to do that thing. Sometimes I see teenagers do things like that. They do things where you're like, you know what? You're old enough to know better. You're old enough to know what you're doing is wrong or that you shouldn't be doing it.

Anyways to review, when you say that's getting old, you're referring to something that is no longer funny. Like those geese going by, that's getting old for me. I mean, I like the geese. It's cool to hear them honk sometimes, but they seem to do it every time I start making a video and that's getting old. And when you say that someone is old enough to know better, it means that they have gotten to the age where, when they do certain things, they should know whether it's good or bad to do that.

Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Dúlio. Blackbirds singing in the dead of night. It's what they sing in the song Blackbird by the Beatles. And my response was great reference to a great song.

So Dúlio was referring to a song called Blackbird where they have that line in the dead of night, which is a lot like the phrase I taught you in the previous video, right? In the dead of night or in the dead of winter. So thanks Dúlio for that.

I'm not gonna walk around too much today because it's extremely windy out here. And if I was to say something about something that's getting old, I would also say that trying to make videos when it's windy is getting old. I do love going outside, but sometimes it's just a little too windy.

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