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www.ListeningMethodEnglish.com Hello, here's another idiom in English: to be all thumbs. To be all thumbs. This is a thumb. Finger, finger, finger, finger, thumb. You have two thumbs on your hands. To be all thumbs means the same thing as clumsy, not graceful, okay? "I'm all thumbs! I can't do it very well." Something physical that I can't do, especially with my hands. "I'm all thumbs. I'm very clumsy. I'm not good at doing that with my hands. I'm all thumbs: I can't do it well." For example, maybe something like... Oh, I don't know. Fixing your bicycle. I want to fix my bicycle but I'm all thumbs; I'm not good at doing that. I can't do it well. I'm all thumbs. Because if you had all thumbs; if you had five thumbs instead of four fingers and one thumb, then it wouldn't work very well, right? Sometimes with an idiom you can think about the literal meaning and then it can help you understand the idiomatic meaning. This one, it will help you. All thumbs, if they were all thumbs, you would not be able to do things very well with your hands. Not all idioms are like this. Sometimes the other meaning will help understand the idiom, but sometimes not. Sometimes you just have to remember. This one, it does help. All thumbs: very clumsy. Can't do it well with your hands. Okay? Have a good day, bye-bye. www.ListeningMethodEnglish.com

http://www.ListeningMethodEnglish.com Hello, let's talk about an English idiom. Here's one right here: to be a bomb. A bomb. Do you know what a bomb is? Boom! A bomb explodes, right? Boom. It's a bomb. It's very dangerous. But as an idiom, it means "a failure." If something is a bomb, it's a failure. Usually, it's used for a movie, a film. A film that was really bad, and nobody liked it, was a bomb. It bombed. So it can be a verb or a noun. To be a bomb or to bomb. "That movie was terrible. It bombed! Oh my god, it was really awful; nobody liked it." The most common use is for a movie, but it could be for anything. For example, maybe a business: "I tried to sell a new product, but it bombed. It was a failure. Nobody bought my product. Oh, it bombed; it was a bomb" Sometimes I try a new activity in my classroom, teaching English. So I go in, and I try to do something, but the students hate it. "My activity bombed! It bombed; they hated it. They didn't like it. Oh my god. It was a bomb." Okay, have a nice day. Bye-bye. http://www.ListeningMethodEnglish.com

www.ListeningMethodEnglish.com Hello, I'm Fred Crane from Listening Method English dot com. How are you today? I have my deck of idioms here. A whole bunch of idioms on cards, and I'll choose one and see: what does it mean. How about this one: to be all ears. All ears. To be all ears, what does it mean? It means: I'm very interested in what you are saying. "I'm all ears- I want to hear what you are saying." If your friend wants to talk to you, but they're not sure that you are interested. "Do you really want to hear me talk?" And you say, "Yes! I'm all ears! Please tell me. Please talk. I want to listen. I'm very interested. I'm all ears." Okay? I'm all ears; I want to hear from you. Are you an English student? How is your English study going? How do you like these videos here on Listening Method English dot com? Please leave me a comment- I'm all ears! Send me an email. Okay, have a nice day. Bye-bye. www.ListeningMethodEnglish.com

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