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0:00Well, hello and welcome to this
0:01English lesson about English phrases
0:04that start with out of.
0:06And if you're wondering, are there
0:07enough of these English phrases, Bob,
0:10for a complete English lesson?
0:12Well, I have 26 of them.
0:14Out of date, out of money, out
0:16of shape, out of order, out
0:17of practice, out of place, out of line,
0:19out of control, out of breath.
0:21There are a lot of them and I will
0:24teach all of them to you this morning.
0:27These are phrases that we use quite
0:29regularly in the English language.
0:31They are very, very common.
0:33You might think that I was,
0:36trying really hard to put together
0:38a lesson with this many phrases,
0:40but it was actually quite easy.
0:41I thought of over 20 of them myself.
0:43And then, of course, I use AI to kind
0:45of fill out a few more, and it gave
0:48me a few more, out of character.
0:49That's a good one.
0:51So, welcome to this English lesson
0:53about English phrases that start
0:56with the words out of,
0:57I think you'll enjoy it and I'll think.
0:59I think you'll learn some new
1:00phrases you could use
1:01in a future English conversation.
1:04Out of focus.
1:06So this is deliberately blurry.
1:08When something is out of focus,
1:10it's not clear or sharp,
1:12usually because a camera or your eyes
1:15are not focused properly.
1:17So if I do this, my hand will be
1:19blurry and then now it is in focus
1:21and would be, oh, that was fast.
1:23I was hoping I would be out
1:24of focus for a bit longer.
1:26Out of focus and now in focus.
1:29So when you aren't wearing your glasses,
1:32if you're someone who wears glasses,
1:34things will be out of focus.
1:36They will be blurry.
1:37When you turn the, If you have a
1:41camera where you can turn the
1:42focus ring on the lens, you can
1:45make the image out of focus, not
1:48clear or sharp, usually because a
1:50camera or your eyes are not
1:51focused properly.
1:54Out of breath.
1:58When I finish walking
1:59at a brisk pace, I'm sometimes
2:02a little bit out of breath.
2:03But if I run, when I stop running,
2:05I am very much out of breath.
2:07So this means that I am breathing hard
2:10because you have been
2:11exercising or working hard.
2:14Other day, I had to lift and carry
2:16some very heavy things on the farm,
2:18and when I was done, I was
2:20a little bit out of breath.
2:21It's not a nice feeling, but if
2:23you don't know what this feels like,
2:27stand up and go run for 20
2:29seconds as fast as you can outside.
2:32And then you will definitely
2:33be out of breath.
2:34You will be breathing hard because you
2:36have been exercising or working hard.
2:40Out of shape.
2:42So this is when you are not
2:43Physically fit or in good condition.
2:46At the end of the summer, I'm usually
2:49in shape because I work on the farm.
2:51I walk more and I exercise more
2:54at the end of the winter.
2:55And I would actually say right
2:57now, just a little bit, I'm
2:58a little bit out of shape.
3:00So when you are out of shape,
3:02you are a little bit overweight
3:03or a lot overweight.
3:06When you exercise, if you're
3:07out of shape, you will
3:08probably be out of breath.
3:10So you simply aren't healthy.
3:12You've been eating too much, and you've
3:15been sitting around too much, and now
3:17you are out of shape, out of order,
3:21not working properly, or broken.
3:24Sometimes the photocopier at school
3:27will have this sign on it.
3:28It will say, out of order,
3:29awaiting repair.
3:31Usually the repair person comes
3:33the same day at our school,
3:34which is very, very nice.
3:36But, this is not the sign that you want
3:40to see on the photocopier when
3:42you really need to make some copies.
3:45So again, if something is out
3:46of order, it's not working
3:48properly or it is broken.
3:50And I want to tell you this, though.
3:53We use this for photocopiers
3:56or elevators, things
3:57that we share publicly.
4:00But if your car is broken,
4:02you just say your car is broken
4:03down or your car is broken.
4:05We don't use the phrase out of order
4:08for our personal things.
4:09For some reason.
4:11The vending machine can be out
4:13of order, and you can't buy
4:14a chocolate bar or a can of pop.
4:16The elevator, the photocopier.
4:18I really think we only use this phrase
4:21for things we share.
4:24But you wouldn't use it for your car.
4:27Out of stock, not available because
4:29the store has sold all of that item.
4:32This is disappointing.
4:33When you go to a store because
4:35something is on sale, sometimes
4:37you'll get there and they'll say,
4:39sold out or out of stock.
4:41Sorry, these products are out of stock.
4:44We no longer have them.
4:46If you're lucky, they'll
4:48give you a rain check.
4:49A rain check is a piece of paper.
4:51One something they'll give you digitally
4:53on an app that allows you to buy
4:56that item at the sale price later.
4:59But it doesn't just have
5:00to be sale items.
5:01Sometimes normal things
5:03are also out of stock.
5:05You go to buy something
5:07and they don't have it.
5:08It's out of stock, out of luck.
5:12When you're out of luck, you
5:13are unlikely to succeed
5:15or unable to get what you wanted.
5:17So we have in this picture, very
5:20sad person because they came.
5:24Apparently they couldn't buy
5:25tickets online for this event.
5:27They came to the ticket booth
5:29and it says, sold out.
5:30So they're out of luck.
5:32There are no more tickets to buy.
5:33They're out of luck.
5:34They were unable
5:35to get what they wanted.
5:38Jen and a few of my kids wanted
5:41to go to the Ed Sheeran concert,
5:43but I told them, you're out of luck.
5:44I'm not buying tickets
5:46that are that expensive.
5:48So it doesn't just have
5:49to do with tickets.
5:51Let's say, there was something on sale.
5:55Or let's say someone was selling a car
5:57for a really good amount of money,
5:59and you called them and said,
6:00hey, I'm interested in the car.
6:02They might say, hey, you're out of luck.
6:03I just sold it to someone else.
6:06So, out of luck, unlikely to succeed,
6:09or unable to get what you wanted.
6:13Out of control, unable
6:15to be managed or stopped.
6:16Now you can be driving a car.
6:18Suddenly you hit ice, and then your
6:20car is out of control, and you can't
6:23go in the direction that you want.
6:25Sometimes when people get very
6:27emotional or upset, we say,
6:29they're out of control.
6:29He's out of control.
6:31Calm him down.
6:32That's why at bars they have bouncers,
6:35so that if a customer
6:37starts to get out of control, starts
6:39to do things they're not supposed to,
6:41they can kick them out.
6:43So when you are out of control,
6:44or when something is out of control,
6:47you are unable to be managed
6:48or stopped, or that thing is unable
6:51to be managed or stopped.
6:55Out of time, having no time
6:57left to finish something.
6:59A couple of these phrases
7:00have to do with that.
7:01I'll talk about out of money later.
7:04We sometimes use the out
7:05of phrase to indicate that we
7:07no longer have something.
7:09So you can be out of milk, you can be
7:11out of money, you can be out of time.
7:13So we are not out of time
7:15for this live stream.
7:16I have lots of time to do
7:18this English lesson today,
7:20so we are not out of time.
7:21But let's say you're writing a test
7:24and the teacher says you have two hours
7:27to write the test.
7:28At, one hour and 59 minutes
7:30in, you're almost out of time.
7:32And then when two hours has passed, you
7:35will be out of time, out of practice,
7:40not as skilled as before because
7:41you have not done something recently.
7:44You could tell.
7:46Sorry, you could tell this
7:47image is AI generated because
7:50apparently he's already hit
7:52the ball and the tee and he's.
7:55He hasn't even swung yet.
7:56He's winding up to swing.
7:58He's really out of practice.
7:59But let's say there's
8:01something you enjoy doing.
8:02I enjoy archery and I just started again
8:05a month ago, but I'm out of practice.
8:07I'm having trouble getting
8:09the arrows hit the target.
8:12Maybe you really enjoy playing
8:13volleyball, but you haven't
8:15played for a few years.
8:16And if someone says, hey, do you want
8:18to play volleyball with us tonight?
8:19You might say, well,
8:20I'm out of practice.
8:21It's been a while.
8:23But yes, I will come out.
8:24So when you are out of practice, you're
8:27not as skilled as before because
8:30you have not done something for or you
8:33have not done something recently.
8:35I was going to change
8:36the definition there.
8:38Out of touch.
8:39No longer informed
8:41about what is happening or no longer
8:43in contact with someone.
8:44So there's two meanings here.
8:46If you went to a business and they
8:48had this sign in the entrance way,
8:52just a grocery store or something,
8:54you would say they're out of touch.
8:55Like the pandemic is over.
8:58You don't need to wear a mask
8:59anymore at the grocery store.
9:00So I would say they are out of touch.
9:03You can also use it the second
9:05way where I can say, yeah,
9:07you I've been out of touch.
9:08I haven't talked to my brother
9:10for six months.
9:12I should really call him because
9:13we've been out of touch for too long.
9:16So again, listen
9:17to how I'm saying these.
9:18Out of touch.
9:19But when I say it quickly,
9:20I say out of touch.
9:22Same with some of the earlier phrases.
9:24Out of focus, out of focus.
9:27Out of order.
9:28Out of order.
9:29So you sometimes can speed it up.
9:32Out of order.
9:32Out of order.
9:33With that one, I do hit the F
9:36because order starts with a vowel.
9:38Did you hear that?
9:38Out of stock.
9:39Out of order.
9:41Out of stock.
9:42Outta, out of order.
9:44Yep.
9:45If you have a vowel.
9:46Sometimes I learn things
9:47as I'm teaching them.
9:50Out of date.
9:51So my.
9:55I had a family member who had a job
9:57and they were always complaining
9:58about the computer that they had to use
10:00at work because it was out of date.
10:02I didn't realize that right away
10:04until they started talking
10:05about Windows 95 or Windows 98.
10:08I think they had.
10:09I was like, what is that computer?
10:11Out of date.
10:12So when something is out of date, it is
10:14old and no longer current or useful.
10:18So if your computer looks like this,
10:21it's probably out of date.
10:22It's probably time
10:24to get a new computer.
10:25It even has a CD ROM drive
10:26or a DVD player down there.
10:28And it has, it takes three
10:29and a half inch floppy disks.
10:31Wow.
10:31And that's probably
10:3413 or 14 inch monitor.
10:36It's not even a flat screen.
10:37So out of date, old and no
10:39longer current or useful.
10:42Out of money, having no
10:44money left to spend.
10:46So this is common, widespread use
10:49of the out of structure.
10:52When you no longer have something,
10:54you can be out of milk, you can be
10:56out of money, you can be out of
10:58time, you can be out of laundry
11:00detergent, you can be out of cups
11:03because you haven't done, the
11:05dishes.
11:06So when you no longer have something,
11:09like when it's something you normally
11:11have and it has run out, there's
11:13another phrase could use the out
11:15of to describe that situation.
11:17So if you're out of money, you're having
11:19no money left to spend.
11:21Out of time, you have no time left.
11:25Out of energy.
11:26So this is similar as well.
11:28Feeling very tired and without strength.
11:32I went to graduation on Wednesday night.
11:35That was the last thing I had
11:37to do for this school year.
11:38And then yesterday morning, even
11:40though I slept in, I was out of energy,
11:43I was exhausted, I was feeling
11:46very tired and had no strength.
11:49Okay, that's an exaggeration.
11:50I had strength, but I was
11:52definitely feeling very tired.
11:55So when you are out of energy,
11:56this usually happens at the end of
11:59a long day or at the end of the week.
12:02When you come home on Friday,
12:03you might say, to someone,
12:05oh, I'm just out of energy.
12:07I worked so hard this week.
12:09Need to have a nap.
12:13Out of line or out of line.
12:15Behaving in a way that is rude,
12:17inappropriate or unacceptable.
12:18When kids throw things at other kids
12:21in a classroom, they are out of line,
12:23they are breaking the rules.
12:25They are doing something that
12:26they're not supposed to.
12:28Even in a formal meeting, maybe
12:32there's a meeting and when you want
12:35to speak, you need to raise your hand
12:37in order to go to the microphone.
12:39And if you just walk up and start
12:41talking, that would be out of line.
12:43That's not the proper order
12:45or the proper way to do things.
12:47So out of line.
12:48Behaving in a way that is rude,
12:51inappropriate or unacceptable.
12:53Sometimes in the chat,
12:55people get out of line and then I have
12:56to put them in a timeout.
13:01Out of place.
13:02Not belonging or seeming unusual
13:04in a particular situation.
13:07So yes, I did use AI
13:08to generate some of the images.
13:10I wanted an image of a person wearing
13:12a T shirt and jeans because here
13:14they're underdressed because they're
13:16in a room with all people wearing suits
13:19and they probably feel out of place.
13:21When you are out of place, you don't
13:24feel like you belong in that situation.
13:26So if you go to a, a place like this
13:30and you wear a T shirt and jeans,
13:33it's gonna be something where it's.
13:34You're not belonging or seeming.
13:36And, and you're seeming unusual
13:38in a particular situation.
13:40This is my biggest fear in life.
13:42When I have to go somewhere
13:45where I don't normally go.
13:46What do I wear?
13:48It's very, very tricky sometimes
13:50to know what to wear because I
13:52don't want to feel out of place.
13:53I don't want to, be the person
13:57who looks different out of work,
14:00without a job and looking for work.
14:04This has never happened.
14:05No, this kind of did happen to me once.
14:07There was a one, there was one point
14:09in my life where I was out of work.
14:11It was a weird situation.
14:13I should make a video about it.
14:14We're talking 30 years ago.
14:17A long time ago.
14:18I was out of work.
14:20So I had no job, was looking for a job.
14:23This, happens in life.
14:26Sometimes when university students
14:27come home, they want a job
14:29for the summer and they can't find one
14:31and they're out of work and you really
14:33think they should get a job.
14:34That's usually what parents think.
14:36But anyways, another one similar
14:38to out of time, out of energy.
14:41This person no longer has work
14:43to do, so they're out of work,
14:44which means they need to find a job.
14:49Out of business.
14:50Permanently closed
14:51and no longer operating.
14:53Now, the most common time we see this
14:56phrase is when you see this sign.
14:59And this is something that happens
15:01before a store goes out of business.
15:05They will often have a going
15:06out of business sale.
15:09So if there's a store and they are going
15:11to close the store, the person
15:13is no longer going to run the store.
15:15They might say to people, we're
15:17going out of business next month.
15:20Well, we're going to have
15:21a going out of business sale.
15:22We're going to sell everything
15:24for cheaper, so that, the store is
15:27empty when we eventually close it.
15:29So out of business means permanently
15:31closed and no longer operating.
15:34Is that store still on Main Street?
15:36No, they went out of business.
15:37They're no longer there.
15:40Or let's go to Joe's restaurant.
15:42Oh, didn't you hear?
15:43They're out of business.
15:44They went out of business.
15:45We can't go there anymore.
15:48Out of bounds.
15:49This should be a familiar one to people,
15:52outside the area of play.
15:54So in some sports, if the ball goes out
15:58of bounds, there will be a whistle.
16:00In some sports, if A player
16:02with the ball steps out of bounds, like
16:05basketball, there will be a whistle.
16:07But basically, many,
16:09many sports have lines.
16:12If you step across the line or if
16:14the ball in that game goes past
16:16the line, depending on the sport,
16:18it might be out of bounds.
16:19So soccer is a good one.
16:21Or football, basketball, American
16:24football, all have rules around
16:26something being out of bounds.
16:30We sometimes use this
16:32to talk about people a little bit,
16:33too, in relationships.
16:37If your friend is dating someone,
16:40then that person's out of bounds
16:42for you because your friend is
16:44already dating that person.
16:45You're not going to ask them out
16:47because they're out of bounds.
16:49So I think I'm using that.
16:50Right.
16:50But out of bounds normally used to talk
16:52about outside the area of play.
16:56Off limits.
16:57I think that's the word I'm looking for.
16:59That person would be off limits.
17:01Sorry, little correction there.
17:03I don't.
17:04Maybe out of bounds works,
17:05but definitely off limits.
17:06Out of, out of sight,
17:08not able to be seen.
17:10So this is Shaq.
17:12I don't know if you know who Shaq is.
17:13And Shaq is hiding behind this tree.
17:15So this is kind of a funny picture
17:17for this example, because
17:18we can obviously see him.
17:20Shaq is a very, very big person.
17:23Very tall, amazing basketball player,
17:26when he was playing basketball.
17:28But here we have someone who
17:30is trying to be out of sight,
17:32basically trying to hide.
17:33When something is out of sight
17:35or someone is out of sight,
17:37they are not able to be seen.
17:40Out of reach or out of reach.
17:43Too far away to be touched or obtained.
17:46So you can see that this
17:47lady has a lot of things on the top
17:49shelf, and they are out of reach,
17:52so she cannot reach them.
17:55But if you look, there is
17:56a little ladder there.
17:57She should use the ladder, and then
17:59she would be able to reach them.
18:01But when something is out of reach, it's
18:03too far away to be touched or obtained.
18:06One of the places you see this phrase
18:08a lot is on things that little children
18:11shouldn't be able to grab.
18:14It'll say, keep out of reach of children
18:16or store out of reach of children.
18:19Which means you should put it
18:20on a shelf really, really high so
18:23that they cannot reach it or grab it.
18:26Out of danger.
18:28No longer in a situation
18:29where you might be harmed.
18:31So you can see in this photo that
18:33this lady is now out of danger
18:35because the firefighter
18:37has saved her from the burning house.
18:39This is not a real picture.
18:41This is an AI picture.
18:42It was really hard to find a picture
18:44of someone who was out of danger.
18:46I could find lots of pictures
18:48of people in danger, but it was hard.
18:50So I had AI generate one.
18:52So she was in a house, the house
18:54was on fire, but now the
18:55firefighter has carried her out
18:57and she is now out of danger, no
19:00longer in a situation where she
19:03might be harmed.
19:05Stay out of trouble.
19:06So this is a full sentence,
19:09because the phrase out of trouble
19:11is almost always used by parents
19:14when their teenage kids or
19:16kids leave to go somewhere.
19:18They will say, stay out of trouble.
19:20And it's a phrase used to tell people
19:22to behave and to not do anything
19:24that could lead to problems.
19:26If my son was going camping
19:29with some friends this weekend,
19:31I would say, have fun.
19:32Stay out of trouble.
19:33What I mean by that is
19:34don't do anything illegal.
19:36Don't do anything dumb like
19:38what teenagers do sometimes.
19:40Don't.
19:41I don't want a phone call in the middle
19:43of the night from the cops.
19:45Stay out of trouble.
19:46So again, a phrase meaning,
19:49used to tell people to behave and to
19:51not do anything that could lead to
19:54problems out of nowhere.
19:58So earlier I think we mentioned
20:00the phrase out of the blue, not
20:02in the lesson, but in a question.
20:04This is similar appearing or
20:06happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
20:09So in this situation, it
20:10looks like sometimes someone
20:12on a bike was hit by a car.
20:15The person driving the car might
20:17say, I don't know what happened,
20:18she just came out of nowhere.
20:20A bike.
20:20A person on a bike came out
20:22of nowhere and I hit them.
20:23Or the person on the bike
20:25might say the same.
20:26They might say, I was just biking along
20:27and this car came out of nowhere
20:29and just hit me and knocked me over.
20:31So out of nowhere, appearing or
20:33happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
20:37That's a hard word to say, by the way.
20:39Unexpectedly out of context.
20:43So this is a fun one.
20:44And I have to explain how this works.
20:47It's when something is separated
20:48from the original situation and makes
20:51and making the meaning different.
20:53Okay, so let's say
20:56in a live stream, I said this.
20:59Okay, so we're having a live stream.
21:01And I say to someone, what?
21:04What my friend said?
21:05My friend said, Canada
21:07has no chance of winning.
21:09And I think that's wrong.
21:10I think Canada will win.
21:12If you went and took the clip where I
21:15say Canada has no chance of winning,
21:17and you took that and put it online,
21:20you would be out, that would be out of
21:22context because you don't have the
21:24first part of the sentence where I say
21:26my friend said.
21:28And you don't have the last part
21:29where I say my friend is Wrong.
21:31So again, please don't do this.
21:34But if I said this, you know
21:36what someone said to me?
21:37They said, canada
21:38has no chance of winning.
21:39And I think that's ridiculous.
21:41Canada will win.
21:42You could go and take
21:44that sentence out of context.
21:45Canada has no chance of winning.
21:47And you can say, bob, the Canadian,
21:49he doesn't think Canada will win.
21:51This happens a lot on the Internet.
21:53Not to me, thankfully, but many times
21:57on the news or on the Internet, people
21:59will take something out of context.
22:02It must be frustrating from the person
22:04who, who, who said more than what gets
22:08put online and then out of character.
22:12Not typical of how
22:13someone usually behaves.
22:15So you, many of you have been around for
22:17a very long time watching my videos,
22:20and you this is not my normal mood.
22:24I'm not often angry online.
22:27Sometimes in real life I do get angry,
22:30but it would be out of character for me
22:33to be angry during a live stream.
22:36It would not be typical
22:37of how I usually behave.
22:40So if you saw me online,
22:44saying Canada has no chance of winning,
22:46I can't even make that face.
22:47It's kind of, I can't
22:49make the face anymore.
22:51That would be out of character.
22:53My normal character.
22:55If I have a good night's sleep
22:58and if I'm eating healthy and if I'm
23:01exercising regularly, my normal
23:03character is to be fairly positive.
23:06I'm usually in a pretty good mood.
23:08I'm usually happy.
23:09But it would be out of character
23:11for me to behave in an angry way.
23:15By the way, during this past 12
23:18months, as I've had some weird
23:20health problems, there's been times
23:22where I've been out of character in
23:24real life just because I was out of
23:26energy and exhausted and tired out
23:29of season, not available or not
23:31normally grown, sold or used at
23:33that time of year.
23:35So here's the best example I can give.
23:37Strawberries are available in Canada
23:41year round, but fresh, local Canadian
23:45strawberries are only available
23:48at the end of May and in June.
23:51So if you buy strawberries in January in
23:54Canada, we say they are out of season.
23:57And you're buying strawberries
23:59from California or from the southern
24:02United States because they're out
24:03of season here in January.
24:06They're in season in June,
24:08but they're out of season in January.
24:10By the way, fresh local strawberries
24:15always taste better than
24:16strawberries that you buy in January.
24:19I appreciate it that you can buy
24:20strawberries in January,
24:22but there's something really yummy
24:24about fresh, local strawberries.
24:26So when strawberries are out
24:27of season, I usually don't buy them.
24:30So again, out of season, not available
24:32or not normally grown, sold
24:34or used at that time of year.
24:42Sa.