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Hey guys! Here with my husband, David.

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And today, we're going to go over nine 
idioms that are related to fruits.

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This is a follow-up to the fruit vocabulary 
video that we just did.

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The first idiom you may have heard of is 
comparing apples to oranges.

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David, what does this idiom mean?

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It means that you're comparing two 
things that shouldn't be compared.

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Like they're so different that comparison 
doesn't really work.

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Correct.

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Apples to oranges, come on!

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Those are two different fruit eating experiences.

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>> They're both fruits. That's about it.
>> Yeah.

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>> You can't compare them.
>> No. He can't compare them.

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Alright, let's think of an example.

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So the one that I thought about was something that comes up when people discuss sports is that

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it's fun to compare teams from two different eras.

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So right now, in American basketball, well 
basketball, the NBA,

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basketball has gone global now so there's lots everywhere but in the NBA,

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the Golden State Warriors are a historically good team.

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They just won another

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They just won their 3rd championship in 4 years.

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>> Wow.
>> So they won 3 out of 4.

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Okay.

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And, so now, the discussion is comparing them with other teams from other eras and specifically,

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people are talking about the Bulls' team 
from the 90s that have Michael Jordan.

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Everyone knows and remembers Michael Jordan's

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>> basketball play.
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that he was the best player ever.

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But it's really hard to compare those two 
teams and say: Who is the best team of all time?

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because the game has changed a lot.

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Three-point shooting has become much 
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Bulls play defense in different ways.

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There have been obviously rule changes 
in the time since then.

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And so we can have debates about it but 
comparing Jordan's Bulls

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to the current Warriors is like comparing 
apples to oranges.

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Because the sport itself has changed so much.

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Yeah, I think that that's a big part of it.

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Right? And the styles that people play.

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Okay, the next idiom, apples again.

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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

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Have you ever heard this idiom before?

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David, what does this idiom mean to you?

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So to me, it's this idea that, you know, an 
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the tree grew and it means, as we use it, that a child of someone is often very similar to their parent.

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It means that there may be traits that are real similar and I think as we were getting ready, I think that it means

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often a negative connotation.

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And I heard you say that and I didn't really agree.

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I mean, definitely, we hear it negatively.

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For example, if you know a 
grown man with a really bad temper

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and maybe you see his kid is starting to 
develop a temper, has meltdowns,

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>> you could say: Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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And that's negative but I also think it can be used just as easily in a neutral or a positive situation.

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For example, as you know, Stoney has taken to music big time, singing all the time, playing on,

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playing drums on anything that looks a 
little bit like a drum.

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And I was the same way as a kid.

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I sing all the time.

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All the time.

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And then I went on to get a Master's Degree in opera.

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So, I feel like with singing and me and Stoney, you could say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

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Okay.

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And I don't think that's negative.

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I don't know. Maybe you think it's negative.

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No. I think that's pretty neat.

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You may have heard a person described as a 'bad apple'

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and this basically just means 'not a good person'.

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Can you think of any 'bad apples'?

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>> I could think of a couple but I'll refrain.
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So someone who's very negative or not cooperative, hard to be around, or does something really terrible,

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is a liar, is a cheater, you could say: he's a bad apple.

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Right.

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Or she's a bad apple.

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It's not always men.

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Um, there's another idiom that

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plays on this idea of a bad apple and that's something like: A bad apple spoils the whole bunch.

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I think that's from the idea that when the apple is rotting,

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that mold can literally spread to the next 
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To me, that comes up, I was thinking of 
an example, I was doing a training

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and there was a group of people at a back table

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and they were really disengaged, they 
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in the back, and not just whispering but audibly talking.

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>> While you were trying to present something?
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>> It kind of, it soured the whole room.
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And everybody then was kind of distracted and looking back trying to figure out what was going on.

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And so that one bad table of people 
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Let's move on from apples to bananas.

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Okay, if someone is 'bananas', then they're crazy.

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It can mean lots of different things, right?

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It can mean crazy energized like um,

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you could say: These kids are bananas!

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If there's a birthday party and they're all super hyper.

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Um, when else could you use it? 
How else would you use it?

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There's another use that is more like someone is not in touch with the here and now or is having a psychiatric,

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I don't know, situation, where people would say: 
Yeah, I think he's kind of going bananas.

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It's not a kind or friendly way to refer to that.

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You would sort of only use that in very informal settings where you know people really well.

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But it means, it can mean 'going crazy' in that sense too, like, really lose in touch with the here and now.

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Yeah. So you could say 'he is going bananas', you could also say 'he's bananas'.

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>> Right.
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I'm also thinking about my friend who has some dogs

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and she said when the fireworks go off 
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that her dogs are just insane.

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They get super scared and they're 
hyper all over the place.

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And that, as another thing I thought of, is 
like those dogs are bananas when the fireworks go off.

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And it's too bad, she really feels bad for 
them 'cause they are scared.

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I think they think their lives are ending or something.

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Cherries.

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I just popped my first bag of cherries for 
this season and I'm enjoying them.

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And so is Stoney.

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Okay, but cherries, there's an idiom here

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and it's the phrase: to cherry pick.

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And basically, this means to choose all of 
the best options.

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So it can be seen as sort of negative if 
someone comes through and cherry picks

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all the best options for something.

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Like, this is a weird example, maybe, but let's say there's a buffet of food, a whole bunch of people.

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You know, we're all friends and family here, and someone goes through and cherry picks the buffet,

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and gets like all the good stuff and leaves all the rest of us, friends and family, with the less good stuff.

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That person, yeah, that person cherry picked the buffet.

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And then the result was, I didn't get the cupcake that I wanted 'cause I was at the end of the line.

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That never actually happened.

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Um can you think of another way, another 
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So we talk about it too in terms of political campaigns.

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That's what I thought about, where, in American politics, there are so many commercials that are made

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and often, one candidate will cherry pick some fact about another candidate to make a negative commercial

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or to show them in a negative light.

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So maybe there's 2 or 3 things about that other candidate, that really stand out in a negative fashion,

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instead of talking about that whole candidate's

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stands on the different issues, et cetera, 
they just cherry pick a couple facts

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and make a really biting, nasty commercial.

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That makes me think that that could also work well if there was an interview happening,

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and the person who is being interviewed 
cherry picks the questions ahead of time

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and they were like: Send me the questions 
you're thinking about asking.

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Okay, you can only ask these 3 or whatever.

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Then that's like just picking the ones that are going to put that person in the best light possible.

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>> Right.
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Wait a second, back to basketball.

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Isn't this a term for a play in basketball?

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Well, cherry picking is when one person 
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almost before your team even has the ball.

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It's kind of like hanging out the far end so 
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we just chuck it down the field and that 
person is cherry picking.

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So, 'cause I was trying to read about this and I didn't quite get it and one of the things that I read was

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like if you're doing, if you're cherry picking, 
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Like, the whole time, you're just hanging 
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>> Right. Exactly. 
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Because I knew that I heard that in basketball terms before but I didn't know exactly what the play was.

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Yes, that's it.

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Grapes.

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A tasty fruit and a great idiom.

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To hear it through the grapevine.

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Okay, what does this mean?

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This means if you picture a grapevine, and there are these bunches of grapes, you know as you go down.

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>> All connected.
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If you hear something 'through the grapevine', that means you didn't hear it directly from the person

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that was affected.

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But you heard it from someone who heard it from someone who heard it from someone.

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All connected.

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And sometimes, you don't even really 
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from or what their source was 
back to the actual person.

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But you heard it.

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Yeah. And often it, the message has been passed along so many times that it's not quite accurate.

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Yeah. It can change.

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So you might say: Well, I don't know if this is quite right.

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I just heard it through the grapevine, but 
here's what I heard, and use it as a caveat.

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It can be a little gossipy, right?

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>> If you hear some...
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>> Not always, though.
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I mean, 'cause I see it, the example I was thinking about was we just had some friends over

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and they had heard about my job change of a year ago

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but not directly from me, they had 
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so they...and I hadn't talked to them, they came over

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and they said: So we heard through the grapevine

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that you have a... you know, you're no 
longer working at the school?

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And I said: Oh yeah! Yeah, you're right!

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>> Didn't hear it from me but that's exactly right. 
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So someone was talking about you, 
updating them on your life, said this, and then...

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They might not even have remembered 
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>> But they knew they heard it through the grapevine.
>> Very possible.

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This reminds me of a great song from so long ago.

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Do you know this song?

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Great song. I heard it through the grapevine.

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And in this song, this guy is like: 
I know you're going to break up with me.

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Not because you told me, but because you told someone else and it eventually got back to me and now I know.

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And the guy is really sad in the song.

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Let's move on to something more tart.

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Lemons.

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The idiom I'm thinking of is 
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which, of course, is sweet and everyone 
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Okay, so lemons.

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So this is basically saying when 
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generally not great, you can turn it into something good.

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It's up to you to do that.

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And lemons are sour and puckery but if 
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you get something delicious.

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so the thing that I thought of was that 
when I'm doing well and in a good space,

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and get stuck in a line at the grocery 
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This is a great opportunity to slow down, 
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kind of do some meditative walking.

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It's actually a great thing.

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So you're meditatively walking while 
you're in line for the grocery?

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Sure, when I'm in a good place.

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When I'm not, I'm feeling like throwing things.

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Yeah! 'Cause you're like "Ugh this is wasting my time!"

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It's wasting time but really, if I was going to make lemonade there, it's like, you know what?

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I rarely get to slow down, enjoy just being around people, there are no responsibilities on me right now,

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I just have to stand here, I can, you know, 
this is actually pretty great!

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Yeah. So it's so much about how you 
approach a negative life situation.

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It's like, are you going to treat it as lemons? 
Are you going to turn into lemonade?

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I was thinking about one time, my computer broke, this was before I worked quite so much,

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and I was like: Oh! That's a bummer!

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But actually, I realized not having a computer for a couple days was really freeing!

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And so I just went with that. I don't...I'm 
not going to answer any emails.

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I'm not going to check any social media. It was great!

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Um, and this is also making me think 
about just the calling something a lemon.

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You know, this is moving on to a different idiomatic use now for this word.

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>> Oh, great.
>> A lemon.

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Like a used car could be great, could be 
fine, or could be a lemon,

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something that is constantly giving you 
problems, constantly breaking down.

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Um, can you think of any... I mean, used car I feel like is such a...

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That's really a word to use.

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Such a strong connection to the word 'lemon'.

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But you could maybe use that, I actually 
think I used that once.

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I was on the phone with Apple, I was 
going to order a Apple certified, like used computer.

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Oh, I had and there was something not working with it and I was talking to tech support,

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we were working through this, and 
I said: I kind of feel like I got a lemon here.

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And they were like: You didn't. Calm down.

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But so I also used it with that.

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So It could be for something that's 
expensive, maybe that's used,

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or it wouldn't even have to be used but 
something that's not functioning well at all,

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>> not meeting expectation or standards.
>> Right.

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That could be called a lemon.

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Okay and the final idiom: low-hanging fruit.

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So if your think about an apple tree which 
we have already talked about with the one idiom,

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apple trees are big and it can take a lot of effort to get to the top.

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Actually, I should put in a clip of that great 
fruit tree from Ginny's house.

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Okay, so fruit from the top of the tree is harder to get than fruit from the bottom of the tree.

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Um, there's this, my friend has a great 
fruit tree in the back of her house

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and we were, all of the low-hanging fruit 
had already been picked because it's the easiest.

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Maybe you can just reach up and grab it without even getting any equipment but we had to get this ladder

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and then this great fruit picker to get the fruit off from the top cause this tree was really tall.

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Anyway, this is opposite, low-hanging fruit

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is the fruit that's at the bottom of the tree 
that's the easiest to get.

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And we use this idiom to mean the easiest thing.

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It's often what you would want to do first.

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>> Um, do you have an example of this?
>> I do.

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Yeah, and I thought about my work as a therapist and

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if people come in and start to do work 
with me and they're really depressed,

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one of the things that I want to 
recommend first is that they start to do some exercise

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or to really increase their level of exercise.

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We're going to get into talk therapy and 
we're going to maybe talk about medication,

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there's lots of things that you can do...

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>> But one of the....
>> Higher branches,

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>> Higher branches.
>> More effort.

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One of the things that no matter who we are or where we are, we always have the opportunity to exercise

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in some form and there's a direct, you know, correlation to feeling better into our mental health

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so that's low-hanging fruit for people who aren't feeling great.

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>> 'Cause it's easier, you can do it quickly.
>> Right.

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>> Yeah.

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Um, I was thinking another example for this would be

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when we sit down and we're doing our budget.

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and if we, you know, feel like: Okay, we 
spent too much this month.

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What can we do? The low-hanging fruit would be the easiest thing to cut out.

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The thing that would be the least hard to give up.

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For example, when we order in food, I 
always prefer to eat it home anyway.

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I like going out but if we're going to eat it home, then I just, I want food that we've made ourselves.

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And so that could be an easy way to say: 
Well, we're not getting carryout anymore.

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We're just going to make something 
simple, fast, that's going to be cheaper

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than ordering out so that would be low-
hanging fruit 'cause I kind of prefer that anyway.

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Mmm hmm. Good example.

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Okay guys, so those were some idioms about fruit.

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If you didn't see the fruit vocabulary video, 
be sure to check that out.

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You can click the link here, or in the description below.

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Are there any other fruit idioms that you 
can think of that we missed?

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Put it in the comments below, let us know, 
we'll try to define them.

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And if you can think of any other 
categories of idioms that you're curious about,

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let us know and maybe we can make a 
video about it in the future.

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It'd be great!

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Okay guys, that's it and thanks so much 
for using Rachel's English.