{"id":148574,"date":"2021-04-13T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/?p=148574"},"modified":"2024-06-09T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T23:10:10","slug":"english-phrases-lowering-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/english-phrases-lowering-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"English Phrases | LOWERING EXPECTATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Want to try the BEST donuts in the world with me? Learn numerous English phrases specifically focused on describing how exceptionally GOOD something is.<\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: right; padding-left: 570px;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; padding-left: 570px;\"><strong>YouTube blocked? <\/strong><a href=\"#video\">Click here to see the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aANEvqI7bhk\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"ENGLISH CONVERSATION | LOWERING EXPECTATIONS\" title=\"Play video &quot;ENGLISH CONVERSATION | LOWERING EXPECTATIONS&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aANEvqI7bhk<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aANEvqI7bhk\" title=\"ENGLISH CONVERSATION | LOWERING EXPECTATIONS\">ENGLISH CONVERSATION | LOWERING EXPECTATIONS (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aANEvqI7bhk)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><h2>Video Transcript:<\/h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Do not get in the way of a pregnant lady and her donuts. That is the moral of this video. Along the we&#8217;ll will talk about expectations in English and how to describe how good something is. Is it mediocre? out of this world? Stick with us, learn useful English phrases, and English vocabulary and a cute toddler makes an appearance too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Important: I am not pregnant again. This is footage from a couple of years ago. We visit these friends every year. And for 3 years, we&#8217;ve been trying to get these donuts. We&#8217;d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">heard such good things about them each year. For whatever reason, it didn\u2019t work out to go until this trip. So at this point, our expectations were pretty high. An expectation is a belief that something will happen. Our high expectations meant we were expecting these donuts to be amazing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We&#8217;re on our way to try what we&#8217;ve heard are some of the best donuts in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So Tara just said she hope she wasn&#8217;t talking about it too much because we have been wanting to come here for 3 years and sometimes when you talk something up too much, then you get let down because you blew it up in your head into something more than it could ever be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Talking something up: a phrasal verb. When you talk something up, you talk about how great it is. \u201cThese donuts are the best donuts you\u2019ll ever have. People come from all over the state for these donuts.\u201d Think about something you\u2019ve heard great things about. A movie, a restaurant, a place to work. Got it? Now make a sentence with it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I\u2019ll do one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The critics really talked up Parasite, but I never saw it. Now you make a sentence, out loud, for your example, using \u2018talk up\u2019. Go ahead and pause this video if you want to take your time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And before I forget, if you like this video or you learn something new, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe with notifications. I\u2019d love to have you as my student here on YouTube. Now, let\u2019s hear just that phrase again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So Tara just said she hope she wasn&#8217;t talking &#8217;em up too much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Talking\u2019em up. What\u2019s \u2018em? This is one of common ways we pronounce the word \u2018them\u2019. In this case, \u2018them\u2019 refers to \u2018the donuts.\u2019 And what we do is drop the TH sound, we also change the vowel EH, THEM, to the em, em, em the schwa. And we say it really quickly. Em,em, em. We link it on to the end of the word that comes before it. Talking\u2019em, talking\u2019em, talking them up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So Tara just said she hope she wasn&#8217;t talking &#8217;em up too much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Now, I also said \u201clet down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sometimes when you talk something up too much, then you get let down because you blew it up in your head into something more than it could ever be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">You get let down. Disappointed. Like the Beatles song \u201cDon\u2019t let me down\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">You get let down because you blew it up in your heard into something more than it could ever be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Because you blew it up in your head. Blow up, a phrasal verb, it has a lot of different meanings. The way I used it here, it means to make something bigger, better in my mind. You think about something so much, so positively, that you kind of blow it up into something bigger or better than it can actually be in reality. It also means to explode. They\u2019re going to blow up the old building to make space for new houses. It also means to get really angry. My boss blew up at me for being late again. It also means to enlarge, like a photo. We\u2019re going to blow up a family photo to hang in our dining room.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">You get let down because you blew it up in your head into something more than it could ever be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As we said, talking something up is to speak very favorably of it. What\u2019s the opposite? To belittle something, to disparage it. In other words, to say it\u2019s not very good. Talk down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So David said we\u2019re going to talk\u2018em down. How to we talk&#8217;em down? These donuts are kind of stale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Well they\u2019re just, they&#8217;re average.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Notice that \u2018them\u2019 reduction. Talk\u2019em down, talk\u2019em, talk\u2019em. Talk down does have another definition. It\u2019s when you think someone can\u2019t understand what you\u2019re saying, so you really simplify it. It\u2019s a little insulting. If you\u2019re arguing with somebody and you feel they\u2019re doing this to you, you can say, don\u2019t talk down to me. But here we\u2019re talking about trying to lower our expectations. They\u2019re really high, and we don\u2019t want to be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">High expectations, low expectations, no expectations. If you have no expectations, that means you have no idea what to expect, you\u2019ve heard nothing about it. If something\u2019s been really talked up, of course, you\u2019ll have high expectations. If it\u2019s been talked down a little, you might have low expectations. Your expectations might also be based on previous experience. For example, if you went to Disney world last year and had the time of your life, and now you\u2019re going back, you probably have pretty high expectations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So we decided, to lower our expectations, we\u2019re going to come up with a bunch of ways to say the donuts just aren\u2019t that good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So David said we\u2019re going to talk\u2018em down. How to we talk&#8217;em down? These donuts are kind of stale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Stale. You do not want that in a pastry. It\u2019s a few days old. Eww. You want the opposite. Fresh. What else?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We\u2019ll they\u2019re just, they&#8217;re average.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Average. Not terrible, but not very good. If you\u2019re selling something, this is not what you want people to say about it. You want them to give it a glowing review \u2013 that is, to say how much they loved it. You want them to say it\u2019s out of this world. Out-of-this-world, out-of-this pronounced \u201coutta\u201d, means excellent, the best of the best. Way better than average.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We\u2019ll they\u2019re just, they&#8217;re average.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Stoney: Yeah. They just (mumbling)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">They\u2019re just average.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Stoney, can you talk them down a little bit?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Say I bet these donuts aren\u2019t that great.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Not that great. Again, that\u2019s sort of like average. What else? How else can you describe something as being not very good? Let\u2019s hear what Stoney has to say about the donuts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yummy,yummy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Oh, you think they\u2019re going to be yummy? Stoney\u2019s talkin\u2019em up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Talkin\u2019em\u2019up! He didn\u2019t want to talk them down. He was too excited to have donuts. But David and I had lots of other phrases to say something is just not very good. Stoney, as you\u2019ll notice, was really into repeating what we were saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">David, you said they we\u2019re kind of average and then you had another phrase for that. What did you say? Yeah, I\u2019ve heard these donuts we\u2019re just run of the mill. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yeah. They\u2019re just. They\u2019re just run of the mill. They\u2019re nothing special.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Nothing special.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Run of the mill, nothing special. The idiom run of the mill means exactly what we\u2019re talking about here. Average. Not especially good, not especially bad. Just ordinary. Notice the stress there, just like when we reduced \u2018them\u2019 in \u201ctalking \u2018em up\u201d. RUN uhthe MILL. \u2018Of\u2019 and \u2018the\u2019 are unstressed, said very quickly. They SHOULD NOT have the same stress as \u2018run\u2019 and \u2018mill\u2019. I even reduced \u2018of\u2019 by dropping the V. uhthe, uhthe. Run of the. Run of the mill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We also said they were nothin\u2019 special. Changing the ING ending, nothing, to the IN ending, nothin\u2019. This is something we do sometimes in familiar phrases like this. It makes it a little more casual. Nothin\u2019 special.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yeah, I\u2019ve heard these donuts we\u2019re just run of the mill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yeah. They\u2019re just run of the mill. They\u2019re nothing special.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Nothing special.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What else?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mediocre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Stoney: Mediocre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(Laughing) Stoney thinks so too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I bet he won&#8217;t think so when he eats them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Eats\u2019em. Again, reducing \u2018them\u2019 to \u2018em\u2019. We also said \u2018mediocre\u2019. Just not very good. You never want to hear your boss saying about you, \u201cHis performance is pretty mediocre.\u201d Let\u2019s hear three more ways to say something is not good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">These donuts leave a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yeah. They\u2019re falling short of expectations. Anybody else got one? They suck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Stoney: Yes!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The final one there, \u201cthey suck\u201d is very informal, maybe a little bit crass, not a cuss word but sort of. It\u2019s used a lot in the US, but you probably don\u2019t want to use it in a professional setting. Casually, you can use it to describe something that\u2019s not good at all, like \u201cthese donuts suck,\u201d \u201cthe weather sucks\u201d, \u201cthat movie sucked.\u201d You can also use it for situations. Let\u2019s say you run out of gas and you\u2019re stranded on the side of the road. You might say, \u201cWell this sucks.\u201d You can also use it for sympathy. If a friend is disappointed, for example, \u201cmy computer crashed and I lost a bunch of work\u201d you could say, \u201cAw, that sucks.\u201d But you would not want to use this for sympathy in a more extreme situation, like \u201cMy dog died.\u201d Do not follow that with \u201cThat sucks.\u201d Let\u2019s listen to these three again. We all laugh because of how informal \u2018sucks\u2019 is, and to be honest, that\u2019s probably not a word we want Stoney using yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">These donuts leave a lot to be desired. Yeah. They\u2019re falling short of expectations. Anybody else got one? They suck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Stoney: Yes!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We have one more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">These donuts have nothing to write home about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Another idiom, that again means, just nothing special. Not particularly good. You wouldn\u2019t write home to family. Back in the days of writing letters, to tell them how good the donuts are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ordinary run of the mill donuts, we hope that\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ok, so, we\u2019ve used a lot of phrases to describe the donuts NOT being good. We\u2019ve tried to lower our expectations. Let\u2019s go try these donuts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Rise\u2019 n Roll. They took the and reduction and they wrote it. They&#8217;ve made just and n. Rise\u2019 n Roll.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It\u2019s overrated?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Overrated<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yeah<br \/>We\u2019re trying to lower your expectations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yeah, thank you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">They\u2019re still trying to lower our expectations. Saying something is overrated means you don\u2019t think it\u2019s as good as other people say it is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Is it good? Is it meeting your expectations?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Stoney ate a free sample. Let\u2019s go ahead and put in our order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He\u2019ll have one of the Cinnamon caramel and I\u2019ll have one too. So two of those.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Three of those.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Three of those.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A glazed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I\u2019ll have a glazed. You want a glazed too? Well, let\u2019s split the glazed and then let\u2019s just split the chocolate covered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Lucas and Tara should come with us. We got a dozen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One glazed, one chocolate covered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We finished putting in our order and pay. Now, let\u2019s try these donuts!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Here Stoney, put on your smock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A smock is something kids wear to keep clean while doing messy art projects, or in this case, eating. We also have lots of bibs, which just go around the neck. With a smock you put your arms through.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So you love it. Do you think it\u2019s as good as the Krispy Kreme fresh off the conveyor belt?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As you know I never have that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">You haven\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A Krispy Kreme fresh off the conveyor belt. Remember fresh, the opposite of stale, which we talked about earlier in this video. I grew up in Gainesville, Florida, where there is a Krispy Kreme donut shop. And when you drive by, if they\u2019re finishing up a batch of donuts, they turn on this neon sign to let you know they\u2019re hot, super-fresh, just made. And, when they\u2019re that fresh, they\u2019re truly the best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A conveyor belt is something you\u2019ll see in a factory, moving things from one place to another, so if it\u2019s coming off the conveyor belt, it\u2019s done, it\u2019s hot, it\u2019s perfect. And David has never had one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I didn\u2019t know that I forgot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But yeah, there\u2019s no chance. I mean nothing could be better than this. So that\u2019s not bad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I\u2019m just saying get a glazed off the conveyor belt. It\u2019s better than that glazed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So there it is, my opinion. These donuts were good, but they were not the best donuts I\u2019ve ever had. However, I did say this about them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Definitely worth the drive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What did you say?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Definitely worth the drive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Oh good. Okay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Worth the drive. Worth it. We use this phrase when we\u2019re talking about something that was expensive, or took effort. Even with that expense, we\u2019re glad we did it. It was \u2018worth it\u2019. \u201cIt\u2019s a long hike to the top of the mountain, but the views are so great, it\u2019s worth it.\u201d The necklace was very expensive but my mom likes it so much, it was worth it. In this case, we had to drive about 30 minutes to get there, but it was good, so it was worth it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I try to make great videos for you so that each minute you spend with me feels worth it. I make new videos here on YouTube every Tuesday and I love being your English teacher. Keep your learning going right now with this video, and don\u2019t forget to subscribe with notifications. I\u2019ll see you back here next week. 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