Easy English Expression, rehashed.
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My name is Coach Shane, and welcome to Easy English Expressions.
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TGIF.
Thank God it's Friday.
Are you excited?
Are you happy?
Yeah?
Do you have enough to keep you... busy this weekend?
I hope so.
Enough money to keep you busy this weekend?
Enough time to keep you busy this weekend?
Enough things to do to keep you busy this weekend?
We've got a similar expression we're going to learn today.
EQ number 370.
Enjoy.
Let's go back in time.
Today's expression is to tide someone over.
Oh boy, this sounds like another difficult expression.
Tidying over, to tide over, T-I-D-E-O-V-E-R.
Well, this word does actually come from ocean tide.
We have what we call low tide and high tide.
So if a ship goes to a city like London at low tide, it will not be able to go close to the city because the water is too low in the ocean.
But if the ship comes at a different time, at high tide, the ship can sail closer to London because the water is higher.
I think London is a bad example.
But anyway, that's the idea.
Low tide and high tide.
In a river or in a lake, we don't see low tide and high tide.
But in the ocean, they do.
The water is low.
The water is high.
So this is a very old expression.
And when they said it in the beginning, they would say, we will tide over here.
And that means they will rest their ship over here where the water is deep.
Because over there, the water is not deep enough.
So it was like a resting area waiting until the water supply comes back.
And that's how we use the expression today.
So I'll give you an example.
I don't need water.
I need money.
We all need money.
So every month at the beginning, I pay myself a salary.
And I'm very strict.
I give myself this much money, $1,000.
I give myself more than $1,000, but $1,000.
But that $1,000 must pay for everything for the entire month.
It has to pay for my rent, my internet bill, my electricity, my health insurance, my food, everything.
That $1,000 must tide me over for the whole month.
That one little supply must take me through the month until the next month when more money comes in.
Does this make sense?
I hope so.
Let's check out a dialogue and I'll explain some more.
Hey, John.
I know you've been having some tough times.
Oh, yeah.
It hasn't been easy.
Well, take this.
This should tide you over for the next month.
Rick, thank you so much.
This means so much to me.
What a great friend.
So Rick is helping John because John is having some tough times.
So I don't know.
What did Rick give John?
He might have given John some money so that John could pay some bills, maybe buy some food, buy some gas.
Or maybe Rick gave John some food so that Rick can eat more food during the month.
Maybe he gave him some gas so that John can drive his car.
We don't know what he gave him, but he gave him a little bit of supplies that will hopefully allow him to survive until the end of the month.
To tide someone over.
I'll give you another example.
Let's say you are studying how to edit videos in a computer software and you have a teacher and every week your teacher gives you an assignment.
And it's just perfect.
So every week you get the assignment.
You do the assignment.
And at the end of the week, your teacher checks.
And then the next week you get another assignment.
And every week you get an assignment.
It's perfect.
But next week your teacher is going to take a vacation.
A three-week vacation.
What are you going to do for three weeks?
You're going to work on one assignment for three weeks?
Oh, that's terrible.
So maybe your teacher will give you three extra homework assignments to tide you over.
So you have something to do during that vacation.
You have an extra supply of lessons that will help you survive that three-week vacation.
This is a great expression and we usually use this expression in reference to money.
I know it's difficult for you, so here's $5 to tide you over for the rest of the week.
I don't think $5 would tide anybody over, at least not in the United States.
But $500, oh, that would definitely help.
So this is, once again, a very good expression.
It might be a little bit difficult to use in the beginning.
But once again, I want you guys to go to the Internet.
Go to Google and search Google.
Tide me over.
Tide her over.
Tide him over.
And see what kind of examples you can find.
It's a great expression.
Oh, and by the way, the spelling is tide, T-I-D-E, to tide someone over, O-V-E-R.
Many Americans do make the mistake of spelling it T-I-E-D.
Like to tie your shoes tied over, but that's wrong.
Once again, the spelling is T-I-D-E, to tide over.
It's a great phrasal verb.
Oh, and I had a great question.
This is a very common question.
People say, Oh, Coach Shane, there are so many expressions.
How can I memorize everything?
What can I do?
Stop trying to memorize the expressions.
Try not to.
Listen to them.
And the idea with these podcasts is by listening every day, English should become familiar to you.
And these expressions are all useful expressions, but you actually need to see them again two or three times before they become your expressions.
If you can every day write the expression down, do a Google search, find out how other people use it, check the dictionary, make your own sentence and then forget about it.
Spend five minutes, 10 minutes, maximum 30 minutes on this expression and then move on.
Don't worry about memorizing the expression.
If it's really useful to you, you will hear it again.
And that's the second time.
I'm serious.
The second time, the third time, that's really when the learning begins.
Well, thank you very much for listening to today's podcast.
And once again, I'll see you tomorrow.
And together, let's master English.
Hey, John, I know you've been having some tough times.
Oh, yeah, it hasn't been easy.
Well, take this.
This should tide you over for the next month.
Rick, thank you so much.
This means so much to me.
Hey, John.
I know you've been having some tough times.
Yeah, it hasn't been easy.
Well, take this.
This should tide you over for the next month.
Rick, thank you so much.
This means so much to me.
Thanks so much for listening.
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