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Listen in to this Part 2 episode of a two-part series on the many different ways to use the concept of worth inEnglish.
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So definitely go check that outtoday.
We're teaching idioms that we didn't have time to share on partone.
Okay, loveit. What's numberone?
Yeah, so Worth It's Weight inGold, which you asked me abouthere.
The trampoline park pass has definitely been Worth It's Weight inGold.
Yeah, or Noise Canceling Headphones on a noisyflight.
Maybe there's a baby crying behindyou.
The jet engines are allowed just to beginwith.
A jet engine is quite loud when you're trying to watch amovie.
Absolutely. Or at this trampolinepark, I use Noise Canceling Headphones because there's all the screaming children inthere.
I would not be able to work if I didn't have Noise CancelingHeadphones.
Wow. They're worthit. They're weight ingold.
I feel like I should getsome.
I don't havethem, but I've heard they work reallywell.
I highly recommend on flights and at trampolineparks.
Okay, good toknow. But aren't they big kind of minor or not minorairpods?
Oh,airpods, but that are Noise Canceling and they work likemagic.
Okay, good toknow. Good toknow.
And then the next expression is for what it'sworth, how do we use thisone,Aubrey?
Yeah, this is when whoever's speaking is not sure whether what they're about to say will be helpful orvalued.
So they're sort of trying to take back theresponsibility.
Like you mightsay, youknow, for what it'sworth, they're alwayslate.
So you're telling someone they might belate, but I don't know for sure they might be ontime.
For what it'sworth.Yeah, usuallylate.
Right. Or I liked that movie for what it'sworth.
Maybe someone's trying to decide whether to go to thatmovie.
And we don't it's kind of like in myopinion.
I likeit. I thought it wasgreat, but I don't know if youwill.
So I liked it for what it'sworth.
It's kind of a way of showing humility a little bit stepping back andsaying, I'm not sure if this is important to you that I likedit, but for what it'sworth, I like thatmovie.
Exactly. Either a lack of confidence in your opinion orhumility.
I like the way you said that both of those could be sort of impliedhere.
I use this expression alot.
Do youLindsay? I don'tactually, but think Idon't.
I worry about giving a recommendation and then someone hating something that's definitely happened to mebefore.
So I think I will say this to sort of removeresponsibility.
Like I likedit, youknow, for what it'sworth.
You just you decide on your own if you're going to go ornot.
And that is a great episode idea for anotherday.
Aubrey, how to qualify your suggestion by stepping back onestep.
And what it's worth isone.
There are other things we mightsay,right?
Allright. Numberthree, numberthree, what isit?
Allright. This is for all one isworth.
This means you're putting in maximumeffort.
On partone, if you went andlistened, you heard me talk about a tug ofwar, where I was pulling for all I was worth means you are pulling as hard as youcan.
You're putting in maximum effort100%.
Right. When the car wasstuck, we pushed for all we wereworth.
Because this ever happened toLindsay, our car used to get stuck in thesnow.
And we would all have to get out and push for all we wereworth.
Yeah, I don't think ithas.
But I feel like I have to do this every day at thegym, especially if I take a week off from working out like lastnight.
I went back to the gym after a week of being on the East Coast and being onplanes, being incars, basically like sitting around for aweek.
Oh mygosh,Aubrey, I had to push myself for all I wasworth.
It washard. You're like ready to giveup.
But it's been aweek. It's incredible how quickly you can get out ofshape.
So these kind of moments when we're really pushingourselves,physically,mentally.
Yeah.Yes. And I think you'll hear this most often when someone else is letting everyone know how hard they need topush,right?
I'm imagining we would get out to push the car out of the snowbank, youknow, off the slicksnow.
And my dad would belike, push for all yourworth.
Imean, like hard as youcan.
Yeah,yeah, verycool. I loveit.
I loveit. Anything elsethere?
Yeah, you could say if you're going to win thisrace, you need to run for all yourworth.
This might be something you tell yourself if you're running and you need that extramotivation, that push or you might say to someone else if you're helping them get thatmotivation.
Yeah, comeon, run for all yourworth.
Go forit,right?Yeah.Yeah, excellenteffort.
Allright, this nextone, I loveit.
I think I use this one alot.
Numberfour, worth a try or worth ashot.
Yeah, they mean thesame.
It means it's worthtrying, but it didn't workout.
Like it was worth theeffort, but something didn't workout.
Mightsay. And bummed I didn't get the part in theplay, but it was worth ashot.
Yeah, but this also could be used before you try thething.
I think it's worth atry.
Let's go and trythis. Let's dothis.
It's worth atry. It's worth ashot,right?
So it doesn't use one ofthese.
You use one of these moreoften.
Worth a try or worth ashot.
Or doI? Oryeah, I think I useboth.
I like aboth.Yeah, I like aboth.
And you'reboth.Yeah, and they mean the exact samething.
I don't know why we haveboth.
Just forfun.Yeah, and as aresponse,right?
Someone tellsyou,oh, that didn't workout.
Oh, it was worth atry,right?
Yeah,exactly. Let's do a little mini role play to showthat.
I'll startit.Okay. Did you win a raffle prize when you bought thosetickets?
Nope. Or theshot.Yeah, I just say like worth ashot, or thetry.
Andyou're,yeah, it's very natural languagehere,guys, because you're taking out itwas.
And you're just saying worth ashot.
And that'sconversation, that'sconnection.
That's what are you going tosay?
Are you going tosay,oh, that's toobad?
Yeah.Yeah. This is so much better because you're still saying postingpositive.
Yeah, you're saying especially if someone's something likethis, where they're paying money for raffletickets, lotterytickets, whatever itis.
They don'twin.Yeah, if you'relike,oh, what a waste ofmoney.
That does not make them feelgood,right?
But this isgreat.Oh, worth ashot.
Yeah, and that might becultural.
What we're telling you rightnow,right?
So just to know where does ityou?
What's her might be playing intoit?
We are a very much a culture that wants things wrapped up in a bow and a paw to end up conversation on a positivenote.
It's just everywhere in ourlanguage.
If you listen toconversations, it might not be true in your own country orculture.
So when you think about translatingdirectly, might not translate as well when you're speaking in theUS, atleast.
Yeah. If you're in theUS, I definitely recommend this because I do know people who have a tendency to say something negative orcritical.
And it'stough. I'mlike,oh, I would much rather someonesay,like, worth ashot.
It's toopositive. It's just easier to live around people likethat.
It just makes lifeeasier.
It'seasier.Yeah, forsure.
No one wants that kind offeeling.
I don'tknow. Allright, roleplay,Aubrey.
Shall we go intoit?Yes.
You and I are at an estate sale in this roleplay.
Have you ever been to an estatesale,Lindsay?
Yes. Ihave. I haveactually.
So this islike, it's a sale at someone's home where they'reselling, selling like furniture and largeritems,usually.
Right. Allright, here wego.
I'll startus. Did you see this record is signed by JohnLennon?
This is worth its weight ingold.
Verycool. I'm not a huge Beatlesfan.
So probably not worth the money forme.
It's only $150 worthit.
I'm going to ask if they'll sell itfor $100.
I doubtit, but worth atry.
Nice. I love this roleplay.
Oh, myGod. This is sofunny.
Do you bargain like that at a estate sale or a garagesale, which you ask to try and get it for less than they're selling itfor?
Yeah, but having been on the other side of holding thesesales, it's kind of annoying because you'relike, what thething, we're pricing it at $3 and we paid $100 forit.
Now you want itfor $150.
It makes me make kind of make itcrazy.
Well, it's trying because usually if you know people are going to try andbargain, get abargain, you're just going to price it higher acceptingthat.
Yeah,yeah,yeah. Depending on how you how quickly you want to remove theitems.
Butyeah, I know that's curious for all of you out there listening because I feel like this is different in differentcultures.
When we go toMexico, you're supposed to be expected tohaggle, you're expected to bargain on theprices.
So whatever it's pricedfor, if I offer whatever $5, $10less, then maybe they'll comeback, but they'll always change theprice.
But here in the US at the regular at a regular retailstore, you would not want to dothat.
You can't go to Target and try to try tobarter.
You cantry, but they're going to sayno.
Yeah, forsure, forsure.
But out of yard sale or in a state sale or a garagesale, what do we callthem?
You can dothat.Yeah, yardsale, garagesale.
That's where people are sort of out in front of their home with a lot of their their household items or whatever that they'reselling.
You just drive by and by theirstuff.
Yeah, and you can find some pretty cool historicalstuff.
A lot of Americana you canfind, youknow, especially if the people were around like in the 50s and60s, some relics that you can come across in thesesales,especially, youknow, for the oldergeneration.
So give me kind of a little love garagesales.
I let them pick books and games and it's all new tothem,right?
Sure. And it's cheap foryou.
Yeah.Yeah.Okay. So what did you sayfirst?
Yeah. So I first said I found this record signed by JohnLennon, one of the Beatles who has passedaway.
So Isaid, this is worth its weight ingold.
Because if I'm a huge Beatlesfan, that's extremelyrare.
That would be worth a very high price tome,right?
Right.Right. Forsure.
And then Isaid, verycool, but I'm not a huge Beatlesfan.
So probably not worth the money forme.
Andagain, here I'mdropping.
So it is not worth the money forme.
It is probablynot.Yes.
And this is a call back to partone.
So if you missedit, we talked about something being worth the blanknoun, worth themoney, worth theeffort.
If you didn't go back and check out partone.
No, back and checkout, don't miss the part one of thisseries.
Guys, don't missit. And then Isaid, it's only 150 worthit.
So I'm saying it's definitely worth thisprice.
But then I'mlike, but I'm still going to see if they'll sell it to me forless.
Right.Right. And then Isaid, I doubtit, but worth atry.
Nice.Yeah.Awesome. This is sogood.
There are so many idioms in English with worth and idiomatic language really boosts your fluency level and how well you're able to connect with others inEnglish.
Right. If you replaced these with very simplesentences, it's not nearly asinteresting.
This is a more funconversation.
Yes. I loveit. And kind of reflect on what we said earlier today around just positivity inlanguage.
Youknow, does your culture expect positivity in language or finishing a conversation on a positivenote?
It's not true everywhere inEnglish, in AmericanEnglish,right?
Not every conversation is supposed toend.
Youknow, if you're talking about death or something that doesn't have to end in a goodway,right?
A lot of conversations we do tend to want to wrap it up with an uptone and upnote in asense, like wesay.
So if you're in theUS, you might have noticed that and you might want to make an effort to try and do that because thepeople, the Americans that you're talking to will sort of be used to that and might kind of belike,oh, if you end up with somethingnegative.
Yes. It's reallyinteresting.
So think about your language is thattrue.
And it's good to be able to reflect on what is one of the frames that we're bringing into a newlanguage.
Superinteresting. Veryinteresting.
I love theseries. Thank you for joiningme,Lindsay.
Sointeresting. Allright.
Goodstuff. I'll see yousoon,Aubrey.
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