Read along to practice your English and to learn the English term HUSH-HUSH and the phrase THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English term hush-hush. If I say something to you and then say, don't tell anyone else, it's hush-hush. Or if I say it's very hush-hush right now, it means that you shouldn't be telling it to someone else either. In fact, I probably shouldn't have told you in the first place. So when something is hush-hush, it means that it's a secret. Right now, we're talking at school about the possibility of having a longer Christmas break than normal. So the teachers are talking about it, but it's very hush-hush right now. We don't want to tell the students that we might be doing that because we don't want them to get too excited about it. But as teachers, we're starting to think about maybe having a longer Christmas break, but right now it's hush-hush. It's very hush-hush right now. As teachers, we're not supposed to talk to the students about it, because if we do, they'll plan trips and they'll plan to do things that they're not supposed to be doing. So it's kind of a secret. It's hush-hush.

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Why am I making a video about it then? Because it's something that might happen. It isn't for sure. So if you are my students, watching this video, Christmas break is the same length as normal, as of now, okay? It's not gonna be any longer. We don't think it will be. We'll see. Who knows what will happen?

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the long and the short of it. I used this in my video yesterday for my members only. I said, well, that's the long and the short of it. When you talk about something and you describe it in detail, you've described the long and the short of it. And we often, in English, will finish talking about something by saying, well, that's the long and the short of it. So if I was to teach you an English lesson on a certain topic, and if I was done teaching that lesson, I could end by saying, well, hopefully you understood the lesson. That's the long and the short of it. Basically what I'm saying is that's everything you need to know about this topic. So that's the long and the short of it for teaching you two terms today.

Again, hush-hush means that something is a secret. If something is hush-hush, or if you say it's very hush-hush right now, it means that it's a secret and you're not supposed to talk about it. And when you end talking about something by saying, that's the long and the short of it, you're basically saying, you've talked about everything that you needed to talk about.

Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Lay. And Lay says, I drank a lot last night and now I am paying the price. Is it correct? And my response was, yes. Great work. Totally correct. So yesterday's lesson was on paying the price, or when you pay the price for doing something. How it can mean more than just money. And Lay's example here is about drinking. So sometimes if you go out, if you are someone who consumes alcoholic beverages, if you drink too much, you definitely pay the price the next day.

Many of you gave examples in the comments of things you pay the price for. Some people said things like, I went to bed too late last night, and today I'm paying the price. Or, some people said I didn't study hard enough for a test, and now, today I'm going to write the test, and I'm gonna pay the price. So I think you understood the concept of paying the price. It doesn't always have to do with money. Sometimes it's just a matter of you do one thing in life and it ends up costing you in some way later.

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