Learn the English Terms "heavy hitter" and "heavy heart"
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In this English lesson, I'd like to help you learn the English term heavy hitter. When you say someone is a heavy hitter in a certain area, it means they are like the most famous or most powerful person in that area. If I was to have a guest on my YouTube channel, if I could convince Lucy from English with Lucy,

to come on my channel, she would be a heavy hitter. She would be one of the most successful and a pretty awesome English teacher to have on my channel. I should send her an email and ask her if she wants to do a collaboration again, but she would be a heavy hitter.

If I needed to find a guest speaker for my class, someone to come and talk to students, if I got Matt Damon to come in, that would be a heavy hitter. That would be a pretty cool and impressive person to come and speak to my class. So a heavy hitter, a very important person or a very famous person or a combination of the two.

The other term I wanted to teach you today is heavy heart. When you have a heavy heart, it means you are sad. We often use this phrase after someone passes away, after someone dies. You might say something like, I have a heavy heart since my grandmother passed away. I am sad. I am feeling grief. I have a heavy heart.

So to review, a heavy hitter is someone important or famous or powerful. And when you have a heavy heart, it means that you're sad, really sad because something in your life didn't go the way you thought it would. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Joy.

The comment is, we also had a snow day a few days ago. Might as well stop all tasks and build a snowman like a kid. And my response, I wish we had the right kind of snow for that. Unfortunately, it is too cold for snowman snow. So yeah, you need, thanks Joy for that comment. You need a certain kind of snow. Oh, you should have a look at this. This morning has been pretty cool. Everything's just a little bit, I don't know how to describe it.

But it's like we had frost overnight a little bit and it has formed on the trees and branches. So pretty cool. Anyways, yeah, we don't have the right kind of snow to build a snowman. In order to build a snowman, the snow has to be

not melted, but it has to be like zero degrees or one degree or minus one, somewhere in that range. And then the snow will stick to itself. Right now, the snow will not stick to itself. The snow is very, very cold. I'll give you a look at the snow in a moment. I'm just distracted by these trees. The snow is very, very cold. And so it's

For some reason, when the snow is that cold, the snow will not stick to itself. When you make a snowman, you have to roll the snow and as you roll the snowball, it gets bigger and bigger. And that's where the phrase comes from for something to snowball. If you start rolling a snowball when conditions are right, as you roll it, the snowball sticks to itself.

to the snow you roll it onto, and then it slowly gets bigger and bigger. It's a pretty unique thing. The next time we have snow that is the right kind of snow for making a snowman, I should make a snowman for you so you can see how it works. By the way, when you make a snowman, when the weather's right for that, it's also a good day to make a snow fort

Snow forts are fun. I built a lot of snow forts when I was a kid. A snow fort's like a little mini house that you build outside out of snow. It's not an igloo, that's something different again. But yeah, snow forts. And then we would have snowball fights. I miss those days, it was a lot of fun. Anyways, thanks for watching this short English lesson. I'll see you in a couple days with another one, bye.

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