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Easy English expression rehashed.
Hello, everybody. My name is Coach Shane and welcome to Easy English Expressions.
Come on, let's master English.
Coach Shane here. It is Wednesday morning and we had snow last night, but today and tomorrow will be very warm.
So lots of it will melt away.
That's good. And today's expression is outstanding.
It is a phrasal verb.
You can use it for people or things.
Enjoy. Let's go back in time.
We have a great expression today, and it is to straighten something or someone out.
To straighten it out.
To straighten him out.
So, straighten, S -T -R -A -I -G -H -T -E -N, to straighten something out.
Well, yes, it means to make something straight, okay?
But what does this really mean?
So to straighten something out means to fix something, to resolve a problem, to solve a problem, to, if there's something that is very disorganized, to make it organized.
If something or someone is confused to clear up their confusion, somebody who needs to be straightened out, they need to be yelled at.
They need to be taught how to do something.
so if I said to a young child I'm going to straighten you out that means I'm going to make you into a good man I'm going to teach you a lesson I'm going to teach you how to behave if I create a computer program but there are just so many problems for example in America Have you heard of Obamacare?
Yeah, it's the United States National Health Insurance Plan.
So many problems. Somebody needs to go and straighten it out.
Somebody needs to go and fix that problem.
Do you understand? now a really simple idea to think of would be your telephone cord at home you know if you have a telephone at home you hold the thing in your hand and then the wire it's very curly it curly curly curly curly curly curly to the phone and sometimes that wire gets all tied together and it's really
terrible well in that situation you need to straighten out the telephone cord sometimes little young boys you know they start doing bad things they start smoking or maybe drinking their life is getting all twisted and not good those young boys and young girls Young girls, too.
Those kids need to be straightened out.
Right? That's right, dammit.
Okay, let's check out a dialogue.
Professor Dick was so rude to me.
He probably didn't know you were a teacher.
I'm really mad. I'll go talk to him and straighten this out.
Don't worry. I won't be happy unless he apologizes.
ah did you understand the situation so one guy is angry and he's angry because of a professor the professor's name is professor dick and this professor was he didn't know that this guy is also a professor so do you understand so professor dick is probably an old professor And this other guy, he's a new professor.
But Professor Dick did not know that he was a new professor.
So he was probably speaking to him like a student.
And professors have lots of pride.
They do not like to be talked to as a student.
So he's really angry.
So the other guy said, oh, he probably didn't know you were a teacher.
Don't worry. I'll go talk to Professor Dick and straighten this out.
I will straighten out this misunderstanding.
I will straighten out this confusion.
I will clear up the problem.
I will solve the problem.
Do you understand? man, to straighten someone out, to straighten something out, to organize something, to make something better, to clear up a misunderstanding, to educate someone so that they are proper.
That's the idea. It's a very flexible phrasal verb.
Can you give me an example of how you can use to straighten something out?
I would love to hear from you.
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Let's check out that dialogue two more times.
Professor Dick was so rude to me.
He probably didn't know you were a teacher.
I'm really mad. I'll go talk to him and straighten this out.
Don't worry. I won't be happy unless he apologizes.
Professor Dick was so rude to me.
He probably didn't know you were a teacher.
I'm really mad. I'll go talk to him and straighten this out.
Don't worry. I won't be happy unless he apologizes.
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