2020-04-19
10 分钟Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome back to our podcast.
And I'm trying to help you to get a better understanding of english grammar, idioms, phrasal, verbs, all the ways in which you can improve your spoken English, that you can have good conversations and a better overall experience.
So what do I have for you in this podcast?
Well, this podcast is a follow on from the previous one.
And what we're looking at in particular are those idioms connected with giving advice or to give a warning.
Okay, so I'll give you a number of these idiomatic expressions and I'll explain to you which is advice and which is a warning.
Okay, so let's start with the first one.
A blessing in disguise.
A blessing in disguise.
Well, a blessing is something that usually a priest gives, you know, when he, at mass, he gives a blessing, or the pope gives his blessing in the basilica on a Sunday to the crowds, or a father will give his blessing, or he used to, to the daughter of his, sorry, the marriage of his daughter to some guy.
Okay, so these are all things about blessings.
So a blessing in disguise is something that we do that we might look on as negative or as a something, somebody turns us down, some request.
But when we look at it in the hard light of day, it actually might have been a blessing that somebody didn't allow us to do it.
So let me give you an example of a blessing in disguise.
So one of your children comes to you and says that they, they would like to pursue a career in acting.
Yeah.
And you absolutely put your foot down, say, oh, that's not a career for you, you know, what experience have you got?
You know, it's very precarious.
It's not a good way to make money unless you're really, really lucky or really, really talented.
And look, I really don't think so.