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Easy English expression rehashed.
Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to Easy English Expressions.
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Coach Shane here. You know, today is Sunday and this is the day that I prepare for my Let's Master English podcast. We publish that tomorrow, on Monday.
And I'm going through songs that I want to use.
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And it's like a radio show.
It's really, really cool.
And one of the songs I want to use is called Sharks by Imagine Dragons.
Do you know Imagine Dragons?
I'm actually a fan.
I like those guys. They're pretty darn good.
And seeing today's expression is perfect because in the expression we have the word shark, S -H -A -R -K.
k and we've got a weird expression that i don't think you would ever guess the meaning to so i hope that you enjoy rehash number 150 the expression jump the shark here we go let's go back in time.
Today's expression is very, very good.
It is jump the shark.
Something has jumped the shark.
J -U -M -P. Jump. You know, like a kangaroo or a rabbit.
The shark. S -H -A -R -K.
in the ocean like the scary movie Jaws.
Yeah, very scary. Jump the shark.
Now, how many of you have ridden a bicycle, especially young boys?
Young boys, when we ride our bicycles, one thing we like to do is jump with our bicycles.
So we'll make a dirt hill and we'll jump over the hill.
Or sometimes we'll put some wood down on the asphalt and jump over the wood.
We'll do all sorts of crazy things.
And this expression actually means to jump a shark.
So when I was young, what I would do with with my bicycle is I would take a couple of bricks, maybe three bricks, and then I would lay a board onto the bricks and I would make a ramp.
And then I would ride my bicycle really fast and I would ride up the ramp and then I would be jumping, flying in the air.
And then when I gained some confidence, I would ask my friend, lay down on the ground and I will jump over you.
Of course, none of my friends agreed.
I'm sure I could do it though.
Well, anyway. And this expression has that idea.
idea. Can you imagine you're on a motorcycle and you're going to jump a large area and below in the area, it's a swimming pool and inside the swimming pool is a shark and it's a hungry shark.
So if you fail in your jump, you're going to be eaten by the shark.
It sounds crazy, right?
It sounds very Hollywood, right?
And that's where this expression comes from.
Sometimes in a situation comedy or maybe a series, a movie series, it starts to lose popularity.
For example, in the situation comedy, friends.
friends everybody loved friends all the characters joey ross chandler monica rachel phoebe everybody loved the friends loved the characters but as the years went by it became more boring so chandler and monica got married and at that point it wasn't friends anymore it was family and friends.
So when the wedding happened, when Monica and Chandler got married, we can say the situation comedy friends jumped the shark.
It jumped the shark.
It tried to do something really amazing to capture everybody's attention, but it was actually not very successful.
If something has jumped the shark, its popularity is dying and dying quickly.
It's not very popular anymore.
Can you think of a music group that has jumped the shark?
What about the Backstreet Boys?
Yay! Yay! No? Have they jumped the shark?
What about Britney Spears?
Yay! No? Has she jumped the shark?
Hmm. I don't know. What about One Direction?
Boo! Yeah. They jumped the shark, right?
All right. Let's check out a dialogue.
Let's watch the new Die Hard movie!
No way! Die Hard has jumped the shark!
What? Bruce Willis is the greatest!
You're crazy! Can you believe they still make Die Hard movies?
Unbelievable! Bruce Willis as an action hero!
Hiro. I'm sorry Bruce but you've jumped the shark.
Your popularity as an action hero.
No not anymore. You're too old.
You're too fat. You're too bald.
Go home Bruce. Spend your money on a nice house and be quiet.
No more die hard movies.
he's now actually i'm a big bruce willis fan but i can admit yeah it's true bruce willis has jumped the shark sylvester stallone jumped the shark arnold schwarzenegger jumped the shark Jean -Claude Van Damme jumped the shark.
Steven Seagal jumped the shark.
The Rock jumped the shark.
They're all past their prime.
They're popular actors, but not as an action hero anymore.
Do you think Coach Shane has jumped the shark?
I hope not. Let's check out that dialogue two more times.
Let's watch the new Die Hard movie!
No way! Die Hard has jumped the shark!
What? Bruce Willis is the greatest!
You're crazy! Let's watch the new Die Hard movie!
No way! Die Hard has jumped the shark!
What? Bruce Willis is the greatest!
You're crazy. Thanks so much for listening.
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