Let's have a quick look at, oh idioms, oh my, idioms already?
Here we go then So stretch my legs.
I'm going to show you a picture and I want you to guess the idiom.
It's connected with politeness, obviously, so let's try number one.
What do you think this idiom?
To bend over backwards is to make a great effort to be polite or to help someone, okay?
For example, she bent over backwards to make her guests feel comfortable.
So she made a big effort to make them comfortable.
It's not easy bending over backwards, right?
As you can see in that picture, it's not easy at all.
So that doing something difficult, making an extra effort to bend over backwards.
I'm still here, by the way.
Yeah, you're there, but I him nice to see you here.
Yeah, you've got it, mind your P's and Q's, mind your P's and Q's.
What a strange expression, right?
So to mind your P's and Q's is to be careful about how you behave and speak.
I don't know the origin of this idiom,
the letters, the P's and Q's, I guess because the P and the Q look very similar and they are easily mixed up.
So you have to be careful.
To mind, it means to be careful about not mixing up.
So be careful how you behave and speak.
For example, at the formal dinner, everyone had to mine their P's and Q's, okay?
to be honest, we don't use it very much, but it's something you may hear, and I think to recognise it and understand it.
I wouldn't use it myself,
I think it's more for a formal situation,
like a formal dinner or a business dinner, you know, oh, mind your P's and Q's, be careful what you say, the boss is here.
So, it's normally for formal situations, but very useful to Excellent.
right let me stop you there absolutely very very very interesting so the one person who got this,
but those of you in the Gold course will know that the B stands for BE, BE, and this one is BE.
The behaviour here is helping the boy helping the older person, maybe the grandad, possibly.
I know very, very tricky, right?
Be on your best behaviour to be.
So whenever you see the be, it means to be on your best behaviour.
And it means to behave in the most polite way possible.
When meeting her parents, he was on his best behavior.
So to be on your best behavior, you know, behave the best way.
it's similar to try your best or be your best a few of you said, but it's specifically about behavior.
a new or going on a date,
be on your best behavior, you're meeting a new boss, be on your best behavior, all those kind of contexts.
Let's have a look at the last one.
The last one is this one.
What do you think this one is?
This one was too easy, right?
Yeah, you're all there guys, bite your tongue, have a good day.
To bite your tongue means to avoid saying something that might be impolite or inappropriate, that might be considered impolite or inappropriate.
For example, I had to bite my tongue when she started complaining about her boss.
I think often it's the situation where You're listening to people talk and you want to say something,
you're maybe a bit angry or a bit annoyed or you disagree and you want to say something quite strongly,
like no that's nonsense or don't complain about your boss.
Or, don't talk about my friend like that.
but sometimes in English, so that you're in order not to be impolite, you bite your tongue, which means you don't talk.
If you bite your tongue, eh, then you're not.
and it just gives you time to think and maybe say something more polite.
Okay, I think maybe, for example, because her boss is my friend.
That may make it clearer maybe.
I had to bite my tongue when she started complaining about her boss because her boss is my friend.
So you don't want to say something.
Maybe you should say something, but the idiom is to bite your tongue, right?
Don't say something to avoid saying something.
Natalia says, it's similar in Russian, maybe in other languages too, I agree, I'm sure it is, yes.
It is better, it's similar with hold your tongue, right, means your tongue is telling somebody not to speak.
bite your tongies you decide not to speak but it's a similar feeling yes.
Samos is I had to bite my tongue when our students complain against our government.
There you go, right, excellent, good example.
And basically you're right, it is thinking before talking.
Okay, so we've been looking at idioms.
