Welcome to the A It Is English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co -host Xochitl.
And today we are going to talk about three idioms. Xochitl, I have three idioms that are related to missing out on something.
And so yeah, so I thought maybe I could tell you the idiom and then maybe you could give like a definition for the students?
Okay, sounds good. Okay.
The first one is miss the boat.
And what does it mean to miss the boat?
You got there too late or did something too late?
Like a good example would be that if one of your students comes in is like, hey professor, I want to turn on this assignment and it's like a month late, You're gonna be like, you missed a boat on that one.
Yes, that's a great example right there.
I'm just looking at the dictionary definitions to miss an opportunity.
And so yeah, the opportunity to hand in your homework on time.
Yeah, you missed the boat.
Do you use this? I use it quite often, actually, I think.
I'm pretty sure. I don't use it actually.
Okay, I guess that's an old person thing.
be a generational thing yeah yeah um you miss the ship maybe something like that no miss the boat is the is the corrected you number two let it slip through your fingers with this okay this one I do use very often it's like it's like you had a chance at something and you just let it get away from you like maybe your ex boyfriend is complaining to his friends about how you guys broke up and you can't get back together with you and his friends tell him well you let her slip through your fingers like he really had a chance to make you happy in the relationship work but he ruined it.
Right. Yeah, this one I love this idiom actually because it's it's so perfect you know it's like you're you're gonna catch something and all you have to do is is basically hold on to it and and you just let it slip right through your fingers you know that the opportunity just goes away like that so yeah this is a really good one very common idiom and I use this one to yeah probably cuz I've let so many good opportunities slip through my fingers that's why all right number three left out in the cold okay this one have heard we don't I and I have heard it used but I don't think I use it that much
I think it's I don't know how to define it I think it's kind of like um I mean just use your imagination if someone or something is left out in the cold it's like you close the door on that thing right they're ignored or not included in so yes yeah um can you think of an example that we could use of this one yes like if you're in a relationship and that person like just isn't giving you any time or I'm using relationships a lot but I think these work well for relationships um isn't giving you any time and attention or anything and then you just feel disconnected from them so you decide to leave
their relationship and the person is like hey why'd you break up with me and you say well you of left me out in the cold that's a great example that's that's perfect exactly you're just you're you're you're left out you're not included I'll just read one example here because the dictionary one is really good everyone was invited to the meeting except me I was left out in the cold so I think that describes it really well all right those are our three idioms for today you can take us out all right if you enjoyed this episode I want to see more episodes like this make sure to leave us a comment down
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