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Today's episode is about idioms. I have a list of new ones that I don't think we've talked about yet, and you guys seem to love idioms, so I got your back. Remember, you don't have to learn all of these. The goal of this episode is for you to be aware of these idioms, and sure, remember one or two of these and throw them into a conversation. So let's get started. You are listening to episode 117 of English with Dane. Hit it, okay, we have officially started the show, so let's talk idioms.
The first one No Pain, no gain. A classic. It means without effort, sweat, and hard work, you won't achieve things. It's such a classic. You'll see it on like t-shirts and stuff at the gym, for example. It's like a cliche in the world of working out, really. But it applies to everything. Your friend started her own business, and she's having a hard time dealing with the workload, so the amount of work she has to do. So maybe you say, hey, no pain, no gain.
Listen to Porky say it to Daffy in the original Space Jam from 1996.
You're doing it! You're becoming mighty! Come on guys, it'll meet no pain, it'll make no gain.
Alright, next one. Act your age. This is a good one when your friend, sibling, parent, or whoever is being immature. You can tell them to act their age. This one has no mystery behind it. Act your age. Doesn't work if you translate it literally, but I think you get what it means. Stop being such a little kid, basically.
Act your age.
Next we have to get carried away. First, the verb to carry means cargar con algo. Like, aren't you tired of carrying that backpack around? But to get carried away means to lose self-control, basically. Let's say you eat four donuts and then you feel like shit, you feel terrible, you got carried away. You lost self-control there for a second and had four donuts. Next on the list is it's not rocket science. I love this one.
It's not rocket science is something we say when we want to say something as simple, uncomplicated, or not as difficult as someone is making it seem. I'm assuming this idiom was born because rocket science is super difficult, so we compare stuff to it to show that it's not that difficult. This one is very straightforward. Alright, we got a few more. This next one you maybe haven't heard before. To have dibs on something. Dibs spelled D-I-B-S.
To have dibs on something is something a lot of us said as kids, but it has carried over to adulthood. To have dibs on something means that you claim something or declare the rights, lose, to something before anyone else. In other words, you see something and you want it before anyone else. Like a slice of pizza, for example. It's there and you and your friends see it and you say, dibs, which means you have dibs on it. It's kind of a silly one, but it's totally usable.
Listen to Emma Stone say she has dibs on the bed at Bill Murray's house in the movie Zombieland. King slept right here.
Dibs on the bed. Too soft for me anyway.
Alright, I got one more before I go. Warning. This one is a bit dark, but it came up recently in a movie and I wanted to tell you about it. I'm talking about the idiom to go postal or going postal. If someone says I'm going postal, as in if they talk to me like that again, I'm going postal, they mean that they will become exceptionally angry. Super, super angry. Angry enough to kill someone. It's a way of exaggerating how angry you will be or how angry you are.
Now, the reason I say it's a bit dark is because this idiom comes from a series of attacks or murders in the 1980s and 1990s in the United States that took place, que ocurrieron, when workers from a post office killed 40 of their fellow employees, sus compañeros. These murders became very famous, and so the term going postal was born. Nowadays, of course, it's just used to say that you are becoming or will become very angry or upset. But yeah, dark.
Speaking of dark, listen to Dennis use it here in season five of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
But what I do care about is the fact that Charlie might go postal if he finds out about this and kill all of us.
Alright, a quick recap before we go. No pain, no gain. So without effort and hard work, you won't achieve things. To get carried away, to lose self-control. It's not rocket science. It's not that difficult. To have dibs on something, to say that you want something or have the right to something first. To go postal, to become exceptionally angry. Okay. That's it for this episode of English with Dane. Thank you so much for listening. I hope it helped.
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