{"id":1768,"date":"2015-05-04T06:36:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T10:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachel-smith-live.prev21.rmkr.net\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2024-04-01T19:29:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:29:39","slug":"halloween-2012-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/halloween-2012-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween 2012 &#8212; Idioms!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I decided not to dress up for Halloween this year, so I made a video going over some idioms like \u2018party pooper\u2019 and \u2018wet blanket\u2019. \u00a0Can you figure out what they mean?<\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span class=\"entry-tags\">Tagged With: <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/culture\/\" rel=\"tag\">Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/holidays-parties\/\" rel=\"tag\">Holidays &amp; Parties<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/idioms\/\" rel=\"tag\">Idioms<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/or-reduction\/\" rel=\"tag\">OR Reduction<\/a><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">YouTube blocked?<\/span> <\/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=a39KLbiPSl4\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"Halloween 2012 -- idioms! 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That&#8217;s Halloween.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent4\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">A couple of years ago I made a video on how<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent5\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">to pronounce Halloween, and showed some scenes from<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent6\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">a Halloween party, and all of my friends in costume.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent7\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">In the US, Halloween is a holiday in which little<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent8\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">kids dress up in costumes and go around,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent9\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">house to house, and say &#8216;trick or treat&#8217;,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent10\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">in order to get candy. Trick or treat.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent11\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Are you noticing how I&#8217;m reducing the word &#8216;or&#8217; there,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent12\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">to just the schwa-R sound? Rr, rr, rr.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent13\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Trick or, trick or. Now, I&#8217;ve already made a<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent14\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">video on how to reduce the word &#8216;or&#8217;, I do suggest<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent15\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">you take a look at it. Trick or treat. Trick or treat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent16\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">But sometimes, even adults will dress<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent17\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">up in costume. Now, I find this a little odd.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent18\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I&#8217;m not quite sure why an adult would<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent19\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">want to dress up to look like a scary<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent20\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">person or a dead person. I, personally, never do it.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent21\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Now, my friends are having a Halloween<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent22\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">party this year, and I told them I was<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent23\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">not going to dress up because I<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent24\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">just think it&#8217;s silly. And they said,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent25\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Rachel, don&#8217;t be a party pooper. So let&#8217;s<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent26\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">go over that idiom, party pooper.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent27\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">First, note that the T in &#8216;party&#8217; is a Flap T.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent28\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Now, you know that because it comes after an R<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent29\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">consonant and before a vowel. Party, party. Pooper.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent30\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">This is a two-syllable word, stress is<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent31\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">on the first syllable. It begins with the P consonant,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent32\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the &#8216;oo&#8217; vowel: poo-, poo-. Now, since<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent33\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">that&#8217;s the stressed syllable, make sure it has<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent34\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">some shape in it, poo-, poo-. The second,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent35\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">unstressed syllable is the P consonant, and then<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent36\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">schwa-R sound, -per, -per, -per. Now that&#8217;s going to<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent37\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">be flat and lower in pitch because it&#8217;s unstressed.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent38\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Party pooper, party pooper. So, what is a party pooper?<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent39\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">A party pooper is someone who spoils other<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent40\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">people&#8217;s fun by not participating, or by saying,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent41\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Oh, that&#8217;s stupid, that&#8217;s a dumb idea.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent42\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So basically, that&#8217;s me, because I&#8217;m going to<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent43\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">a costume party, and I&#8217;m not going to dress up.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent44\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Because I just think dressing up is silly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent45\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Another idiom that has a similar meaning is<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent46\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">wet blanket. So this, again, is someone who<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent47\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">will spoil other people&#8217;s enjoyment by not<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent48\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">participating in general, withdrawing a little bit.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent49\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">For example: Mary had a great party last night,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent50\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">but her new roommate is sort of a wet blanket.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent51\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Meaning, maybe she didn&#8217;t participate, she sat<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent52\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">in the corner, wouldn&#8217;t talk to anybody, or<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent53\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">maybe even just stayed in her room. So,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent54\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">let&#8217;s go over the pronunciation. It begins<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent55\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">with the W consonant sound, where the lips<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent56\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">will be in a very tight circle. Then, the<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent57\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">EH as in BED vowel, we-, we-. The final T<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent58\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">here is a stop consonant. Usually final T&#8217;s,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent59\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">are, unless the next word begins with a vowel.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent60\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">We don&#8217;t have that here. So, it&#8217;s going<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent61\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">to be a stop. Wet blanket. What does that mean?<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent62\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">That means I put my tongue up into position for<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent63\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the T, wet, wet, but I don&#8217;t release the sound.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent64\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I just go into the next word. Here, the next<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent65\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">word begins with the BL consonant cluster.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent66\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Wet bl-. Make sure your tongue tip is up here<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent67\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">for the L. Bl-, bl-. That&#8217;s how you know you&#8217;re<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent68\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">making that sound correctly. Bl-, bl-, wet bl-.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent69\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Now, the next sound. If you look it up in the<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent70\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">dictionary, it will say it is the AA as in BAT vowel.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent71\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">But as you know, when the AA vowel is<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent72\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">followed by the nasal consonant NG, it&#8217;s<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent73\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">not really the AA vowel. It&#8217;s much more like<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent74\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the AY as in SAY diphthong. Bla-, bla-, blan-.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent75\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Then the tongue comes up back here to touch for the<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent76\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">NG sound, right where it needs to be for the K, so<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent77\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">it just simply pulls away there to release.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent78\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Blank-, blank-. And finally, the schwa-T<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent79\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">sound in the unstressed syllable. Blanket, blanket.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent80\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Notice I&#8217;m not releasing the T at the<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent81\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">end of &#8216;blanket&#8217;. Again, I&#8217;m making it a stop T.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent82\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Blanket. Wet blanket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent83\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">And one last idiom with a similar<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent84\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">meaning, stick in the mud. Again, this is<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent85\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">someone who spoils the fun by not participating.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent86\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Rachel, why don&#8217;t you dress up for the Halloween party?<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent87\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It&#8217;s a costume party. Well. Because I&#8217;m a<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent88\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">stick in the mud. So how do you pronounce this?<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent89\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It begins with the ST consonant cluster, opens<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent90\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">into the IH as in SIT vowel. Sti-, sti-.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent91\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Now, the next word begins with a vowel. So<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent92\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the ending consonant here in the word &#8216;stick&#8217;<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent93\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">will link into that. Stick in, stick in, stick in.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent94\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">That will help us to connect the words and make them<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent95\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">very smooth. Stick in, stick in. The next word, the,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent96\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">has the TH sound and the schwa. Now, it&#8217;s unstressed.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent97\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So, along with &#8216;in&#8217;, it&#8217;s going to be low in pitch<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent98\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">and flat, in the, in the, in the. And finally,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent99\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the word &#8216;mud&#8217;. M consonant, UH as in BUTTER,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent100\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">and the D sound. Stick in the mud, stick in the mud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent101\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So, even though I won&#8217;t be dressing up this Halloween,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent102\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I&#8217;m still going to have fun.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent103\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">And I hope you will to. 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