Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO DILLY-DALLY AROUND and TO ASK AROUND

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to dilly-dally around." Now, this is an older phrase, and you won't hear it very much anymore, but my mom said it the other day. My mom said that when she goes down for lunch, she lives in an old age home, she doesn't dilly-dally around. She just goes down as quickly as possible, because if she dilly-dallies around, she doesn't get there in time, and she doesn't get the good food, or something like that. So hopefully you can understand that to dilly-dally around means to not move quickly. It means to just kind of be lazy for a bit or not in a hurry. Jen and I don't often dilly-dally around when it's market day. We usually load the van and Jen gets there as quickly as possible. When my workday ends, I don't dilly-dally around on market day. I usually get there as quickly as I can to help Jen sell flowers.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "to ask around." When you ask around it means you need to know something, and you ask a whole bunch of different people about it. So you go and maybe you ask your neighbor, maybe you ask your other neighbor. Maybe you ask a relative. If I was at market again and if someone said, "Is someone here selling garlic?" I might say, "I don't know, "but if you ask around, maybe you'll find someone who is." So it just means to ask a whole bunch of different people.

So to review, "to dilly-dally around" means to be lazy, to not be in a hurry, to be in no rush to do something or get somewhere, and "to ask around" simply means you have a question and you just ask a whole bunch of different people.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. I'm not sure if I'm framed the way I normally am. Maybe that's a little bit more normal. It's taking some getting used to here. This comment is from Patrick. "I enjoy lessons like this, where phrases like 'back up to speed' pop out naturally. "My students enjoy them too." And my response, "That's why I like the last two minutes of each lesson, because even I don't know "what I'm going to say. "It's very natural."

Yeah, I haven't at any point sworn in a video though, have I, so that's pretty good. But hey, I wanted to show you something interesting about this time of year. If you look down here, you'll see the grass is turning yellow, and these flowers over here definitely are saying that it is fall. They're definitely saying that it's not summer anymore.

But if we go over here, it's kind of interesting, these dahlias, let's spin you around again, these dahlias are going strong we would say. In fact, they're doing so well that we aren't even harvesting all of them anymore to sell them. By the way, we usually don't harvest them when they're this big. We usually harvest them when they're like this, or like this, or like these over here. But definitely, the dahlias are going strong and doing well. There's another phrase that just popped out, and Jen and I are still harvesting and selling. It's kind of odd. It's almost the middle of October and we are still harvesting flowers and selling them, so that's nice, 'cause the year was a little weird earlier.

We also have things like this that were ready a little bit too late. This is a variety of broom corn, and you can see it's a little bit green. We like it when it is more, let me see if I can find one, more like this. And we didn't have a lot of this ready for the last market last week. By the way, in this lesson, I mentioned th

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Learn the English Phrases "to dilly-dally around" and "to ask around"