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Oh boy today's expression is very good listen carefully to hang your hat on something, to to hang your hat, H -A -T, like a baseball hat or a winter hat or a gangster hat from the 1940's to hang your hat on something.
So think of this, a long time ago on TV, American TV, American movies, outside men would wear a hat, you know, a nice -looking hat with a suit, and when they went inside somebody's house, they would take off their hat and they would hang it on something.
There's something by the door, either a coat rack or there's some sort of peg PEG, that they can hang their hat on, okay?
So that's what the expression means to hang your hat on something means to put your hat someplace to keep it safe well in daily English this expression actually means to depend on something or to rely on something you understand so you often hear the expression like this there's not a lot to hang your hat on and what that means is there's not enough information there's not very much information to rely on to believe in so here's another example let's say you are lonely and you You want to meet somebody, but you don't know how.
So you go to an online dating service and you log in, and you put your name, my name is Shane Peterson, I'm a man.
I'm 46 years old. I graduated college and I'm an English teacher.
I live on the West Coast and I don't have much money.
I'm bald. I like cycling, and I have a sweet tooth Is that good information?
Yeah, actually that's that's not bad for the first meeting that might be good information to come out and meet somebody And I find somebody and this is that person's description I'm a woman That's it Should I go meet her?
Hey, everybody, I found a woman, and I think I'm going to meet her.
What do you know about her?
Well, she's a woman.
Um, sorry, Shane, but that's not a lot to hang your hat on.
Then I find another woman.
Hello. I'm a woman.
Uh, my age is less than 70, and I have $1 million in cash.
Should I meet that woman?
Of course! There's a lot to hang your hat on.
There's a million dollars!
Oh boy, those are terrible examples.
Let's listen to another, very common example.
Oh! Our team won yesterday!
We're gonna be the champions this year!
You played who? We played against Duncan's team.
They're the worst team.
You can't hang your hat on a victory against Duncan's team.
This is a great example.
So this guy, he's on a sports team.
Maybe it's soccer or football or baseball or basketball.
Anyway, yesterday, they had a game, and they won.
So this guy's really excited.
We won the game yesterday and based on that information He believes that they will be the champions at the end of the season But who did they play They played Duncan's team and Duncan's team is the worst team.
So let's say it's a soccer game Duncan's team only has four players And they're all Elementary school students and the other team it's all big guys.
You know they got they got a full team of Course, they're gonna win of course They're going to be Duncan's team by beating Duncan's team Do they have enough information to believe they will be the champions?
Do they have enough information that will allow them to depend on that to get them the championship?
No, no. They cannot hang their hat on a victory against Duncan's team.
Duncan's team is not enough.
Beating Duncan's team, defeating Duncan's team is not enough to guarantee them a championship.
It's not enough to hang their hat on.
It's a good expression.
I want you to go to Google and I want you to search hang your hat on or hang my hats on or hang their Hat on and look at the different examples.
Okay, let's check out the dialogue two more times Haha our team won yesterday, we're gonna be the champions this year you played who we played against Duncan's team they're the worst team you can't hang your hat on a victory against Duncan's team huh our team won yesterday we're gonna be the champions this year you played who we played against Duncan's team they're the worst team you can't hang your hat on a victory against Duncan's team once again thank you so much for downloading and listening to my podcast I want to say thank you to several people who left messages on iTunes and first off from China this is m
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We're gonna do one more and this is from Russia.
This is from Yadmilliah.
I hope my pronunciation was okay.
Hello, Shane. I plan a trip to New York to visit the New York public library.
Have you any useful expressions about the libraries libraries or about New York City?
Thank you. That's an interesting question.
Well I can tell you this.
LUDMILIA. You can probably have no problem going into the library but you will not, I'm sure, be able to take any books or C .D.'s or anything out because usually you have to be a city sometimes even a neighborhood resident in order to create a library card which you need to take out any books.
So in your case you might want to ask could I get a library card or how do I make a library card. Now to take a book out of the library, you can ask, Can I check out this book?
How many books can I check out?
Can I check out magazines, too?
Can I check out newspapers?
Can I check out DVDs and CDs?
Those are all good expressions.
And of course, you check out a book, you take it home, and then you need to return it.
Where can I return my books.
When do I have to return my books?
That's about it! Of course you could say could you help me find this book?
Where is the history section?
Do you have audio players?
Do you have computers?
Do you have whatever?
And of course always in a public place the most important question is where's the bathroom Spasibo thank you so much for that great message I hope I answered a couple of questions gave you some good ideas and what a cool idea not only to go to New York City but to visit the public library do it have a great time that's That's it everybody, I will introduce more messages from you guys as the days go on.
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