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Bob"s Short English Lessons

Bob the Canadian

If you want to learn English with short easy-to-understand lessons then you"ve come to the right place. I"m Bob the Canadian and I make videos on Youtube (Just search for "Bob"s Short English Lessons" on Youtube!) as well as podcasts right here to help you learn English. Four times each week I upload a short English lesson with a complete transcript in the description. During these lessons I teach one or two curious phrases from the English language and answer a listener question. Thanks for joining

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Learn the English Phrases "wishful thinking" and "to...

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2025/02/19

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases WISHFUL THINKING and TO THINK BIGIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase wishful thinking. Wishful thinking is when you think positively about something, but it probably isn't going to go the way you think it will. Here's a great example. If you don't study and you have an English test in a few months and you just think, ah, I'll just watch YouTube videos and I'll pass that

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4:39

Learn the English Phrases "to work well with others"...

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2025/02/14

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO WORK WELL WITH OTHERS and A TEAM PLAYERIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to work well with others. When you are working and you are working with other people, either you work well with others or you don't work well with others. Some people work better by themselves. Some people enjoy working with others and they work well with others. I'll explain what I am in a bit. You might be

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4:25

Learn the English Terms "heavy hitter" and "heavy heart"

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2025/02/12

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms HEAVY HITTER and HEAVY HEARTIn 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

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4:39

Learn the English Phrases "might as well" and...

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2025/02/07

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases MIGHT AS WELL and FREEZING RAINIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase might as well. We use this phrase when we're saying that we should do something. I think a good example is this. If you're driving in your car on the highway and you pull over to get gas, you might as well get something to eat as well. Since you're already getting gas, you should eat at the same time because you

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4:48

Learn the English Word "one" and the phrase "a good one"

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2025/02/05

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English words ONE and the phrase A GOOD ONEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn some interesting ways to use the word one. We can use the word one sometimes in sentences like this. You could say, that was one amazing movie, that was one awesome song. That was one amazing cool concert. So somehow the word one ends up in the sentence, if someone was in a car accident and they didn't get hurt at all, you might say, oh, that was one

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4:21

Learn the English Phrase "to edge out" and "a...

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2025/01/31

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO EDGE OUT and A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORDIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to edge out. When you edge someone out, it means you pass them. Maybe at work you and a colleague are both trying to get a promotion, but there's only one spot. And maybe because you know a bit more, you can edge out your colleague because you're just the better choice. Sometimes when teams are playing towards the end

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4:18

Learn the English Words "schemozzle" and "bamboozle"

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2025/01/29

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English words SCHEMOZZLE and BAMBOOZLEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the word schemozzle. When there is a schemozzle, it means that something is a mess. Let's say you're at work and you need four truckloads of, I don't know, flour in order to make bread that day. Maybe you work at a bread factory and only one truckload showed up. That would be a real schemozzle. Or maybe instead of four truckloads showing up,

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4:26

Learn the English Phrases "to bottom out" and "from...

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2025/01/24

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BOTTOM OUT and FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEARTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to bottom out. So whenever something is going down, like the price of a stock on the stock market, eventually it will bottom out and then it will start to go back up again. So to bottom out means kind of to hit the bottom. This can also happen with a car. If you drive an old car over some railroad tracks, tracks, or a

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4:32

Learn the English Sayings "the carrot and the stick"...

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2025/01/22

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THE CARROT AND THE STICK and TO STICK YOUR NECK OUTSorry, I had to put my glove on using my mouth. It's a Canadian technique. I think I showed you that before. But super cold out here today. In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase the carrot and the stick. So the carrot and the stick refers to a way to motivate people. I think it comes from the idea that a long time ago, if you wanted a donkey to

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4:22

Learn the English Phrases "the calm before the storm"...

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2025/01/18

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM and TO STORM OFFIn this English lesson, I wanted to teach you the phrase the calm before the storm. Now, you can use this literally to talk about the fact that there's going to be a storm later today. But it's actually quite calm and peaceful out here right now. And that's actually true. It's really warm outside. I'm just wearing a hoodie and a baseball cap. It's like 5

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4:25

Learn the English Phrases "to lay low", "to lie low",...

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2025/01/15

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO LAY LOW, TO LIE LOW, and A LOW BLOWIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrases to lay low or to lie low. This is one of the situations where we use lie and lay in the same way, and it means to hide. Usually you will hear these phrases if you're watching a show where the police are chasing some criminals and the criminals might decide to lie low or to lay low. Sorry, lie low, lay low. I should say

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4:23

Learn the English Phrases "You're seeing things!" and...

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2025/01/10

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases YOU'RE SEEING THINGS and SEEING IS BELIEVINGIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase you're seeing things. We say this to someone when they describe something and you find it really hard to believe. If we were driving along and Jen said, I just saw 50 airplanes in the sky, I'd probably say, ah you're seeing things. It's all in your imagination. I don't believe what you are

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4:21

Learn the English Phrases "to takes sides" and "from...

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2025/01/08

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO TAKE SIDES and FROM ALL SIDESIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to take sides. Now I'll tell you this. It's actually better to not take sides. When you take sides, it means you agree with one person when two people are arguing. So let's say two of my kids are arguing, I usually try to not take sides. I don't try to say she's right and he's wrong. Instead, I try to

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4:21

Learn the English Phrases "to sink in" and "sink or...

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2025/01/04

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO SINK IN and SINK OR SWIMIn this English lesson, I want to try and not freeze my butt off and also teach you the English phrase to sink in. When something is allowed to sink in, it means that you hear it and eventually you will understand it. Sometimes when you're in school, the teacher will teach a lesson and it might take a while for what the teacher taught you to sink in. Sometimes you hear the teacher say it, you go home

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4:41

Learn the English Phrase "Happy New Year!" and the...

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2025/01/01

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase HAPPY NEW YEAR and the word GINGERLYWell, in this English lesson I just want to say Happy New Year. I do have another phrase or word here to teach you. There's a couple couple geese flying over. They're probably excited because of the water behind me, but Happy New Year. This is not what it normally looks like on January 1st in my part of the world. Normally there's snow everywhere. Right now it is 3 degrees outside

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4:24

Learn the English Term "no-show" and the phrase "to...

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2024/12/06

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English term NO-SHOW and the phrase TO SHOW UPIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term no show. When you say someone is a no show, it means you planned to meet with them somewhere and they didn't come. Maybe you and a friend are going out for coffee and you go to the coffee shop at the time that you said you were going to meet at 7pm and then that person doesn't show up. You would say they are a no show. They

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2024/11/29

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS and MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESSIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, it's none of your business. So I was walking out of class today, and there were two students in the hall. And the one student said, what did you get on your math test? And the other student said, it's none of your business. In English, when you say it's none of your business, it's very

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4:21

Learn the English Phrases "to hit the spot" and "in a...

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2024/11/27

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HIT THE SPOT and IN A TIGHT SPOTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to hit the spot. Sometimes you are craving something. Sometimes you really want something to eat or to drink. And then after you eat or drink it, you say, oh, that hit the spot. When something hits the spot, it means it satisfies you. For me, right now, this is kind of a bad thing. I've become a little bit addicted to diet

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Learn the English Phrases "to push through" and "to...

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2024/11/22

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO PUSH THROUGH and TO PUSH IT TOO FARIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to push through. This past weekend, Jen was sick and I was a little bit sick, but I decided to push through. I took one day off work and I probably went back to work one day too early because I decided to push through. When you push through, it means you do something when you're not quite strong enough or have enough

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Learn the English Phrases "in a little bit" and "it's...

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2024/11/13

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IN A LITTLE BIT and IT'S GOING TO BE A WHILEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase in a little bit. Now, when we say in a little bit, we mean a small amount. And we can be talking about time or an actual thing. Here's a good example. Let's say that my mom is coming over to visit and one of my kids says, when will Grandma be here? I could say, she'll be here in a little bit. If

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