60 Incredibly Useful Phrases for Fluent English Conversation (Binomials)
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Here we have 60 binomial pairs (and trinomial pairs) which are useful phrases that you can use in everyday conversation to increase your fluency. Native English speakers use them all the time and if you want to reach an advanced level you should start using them too.
Binomial pairs are just as common is English as phrasal verbs so do learn them
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Definitions from
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Collins Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Learner's Dictionary
Dictionary.com
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I'm sick and tired of all the mumbo jumbo on the internet, with all the hustle and bustle and people fighting tooth and nail in the commands.
But this video was live and learn to me. First and foremost I liked your presentation which was loud and clear. The nitty gritty part was that you kept it pure and simple.
I was born and bred in the Netherlands and with this teaching little by little and step by step my English will become good and proper until sooner or later I will so much sound like a native speaker that even my own flesh and blood won't recognize me.
But all in all and by and large, to make this command short and sweet, I've tried and tested the binomial pairs in this command far and wide but maybe I've overdone it a little 😋
Great job Wilma 👍
Please note. The word comment is better suited than command.
Thanks for the feedback, I see the mistake now and will probably remember the difference now 👍
Amazing. That's far and away the best comment I've read on binomial pairs
Excellent!
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NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. THE MOST PLEASANT AND EFFECTIVE TEACHER ON UA-cam EVER. Pure and simple !
Please note the mistake on number 43. Correct binomial is "down and OUT" (not "down and about"). Apologies.
Okay sweetheart , we all got that ......but don't make " a song and dance about it"....
Hello Sweetheart , sorry to disturb you ....but you know , i wish " i could care less" about you but i'm afraid i can't ....so i was just wondering : Is there any chance to know if you're okay, if everything is okay there and when you'll be back , please ? THANK YOU SWEETHEART !!!!!!!!Have a beautiful day !!!
Hi sweetheart ! You know i " have a bee in my bonnet" about you , don't you ? don't you? But you have no idea how it hurts to need someone that much .....
+Monica S. can you help me improve my English sohailkhan774@gmail.com
Maybe you should intro- bloody -duce your-bloody-self sir. How is that for a trinomial bloody lesson.
Technology will keep evolving but NOTHING CAN REPLACE THE POWER OF A TEACHER'S INSPIRATIONAL WORDS !!!!! You will always be my pride and joy honey !!!!!!!
Comments can be inspiring too.
Well said.
Lovely
honey kya teri thoo
This is absolutely true! Imagine having a transcription of this video and releasing it as a pdf. Just reading it would be so boring, like reading a list of sentences.
Language teaching at its best. I'm perfectly fluent in English already but these classes make me want to go the extra mile beyond fluency ...with tried and true binomials and whatever else you're explaining to your eager learners.
Dear Gideon, I get mesmerized by your lessons! I used to be teacher, retired now, but with you it’s life-long learning!
I can definitely say for sure now, after years of wandering to and fro in the ocean of tutors and textbooks, that you are far and away the best English teacher I've ever come across in my life. Your lesson is awesome and advanced. Thank you so much!
Lo and behold! A marvelous comment. YOU are the best, pure and simple.
@@LetThemTalkTV I am very much obliged for your kindness. And for a couple of new binomials respectively :-)
@@LetThemTalkTV no list of "60 Incredibly Useful Phrases" ?!?
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I agree
As am American lawyer and one who deeply admires our absolutely best British friends , this post is great, as are all of yours. Great language. Great presentation. Good stuff.
I truly admire the way you teach. Your lessons are always clear and exciting. Cheers! You're the best!😊
No, YOU are the best.
Thank you! Very useful. I am not native English speaker but realized that I have been using about 30-35 binomial pairs out of 60. Have to watch again and memorize rest of it! Cheers from Kazakhstan!
Dear Sir Gideon, what a privilege...
You are such an erudite teacher as well as a jolly good comedian, I'm always "Feuer und Flamme" when listening to your lectures...
Greetings from Berlin...🤩
"toss and turn" means to move around restlessly while sleeping or trying to sleep:
I was tossing and turning all night.
Thank you, teacher!
Thanks to you sir, my english is improving by leaps and bounds
Thanks to you sir, my english is improving IN leaps and bounds.
We just watched this video with my son, it is pure and simple tried and tested English lesson. Thank you 🙏
Sir,
You are the professional what do you and I love the way you teach English. I noticed my English significantly improved in a bit short time in so many ways since I stick on your channel. You are my BEST teacher and all that I need is to be a MASTER in your lessons. I can't say Thank you enough for your brilliant ideas and inspirational words. STAY TURN and LET ME TALK.
Three of these uses I would express differently: "Beg, steal or borrow" I know as "beg, borrow or steal;" "down and about" as "down and out;" and "no ifs and buts" as "no ifs, ands or buts." The rest were very clear and would use them the same way. From western Canada here.
Sir,now I understood that there is no meaning in roaming here and there for learning English Binomial phrases.I think its better to learn from you now and then.Thank you so much sir.
I wish I had had an English teacher of your caliber when I was in school. You are brill. Please keep up your good work.
Your 15 minutes lecture was awesome. I understand each one of 60 binomial/trinomial loud and clear.
Thanks
I've been studying Japanese for a while, would like to have a teacher as inspirational and as competent as you sir.
Your lessons are really helping me to keep me tuned with English after years of not practicing! Picking up expressions is as useful as sliced bread! Thanks a lot!
After searching
for a good English teacher far and wide , I found you Sir . Thank you for such a wonderful lesson 🙂
this lesson is simply brilliant. really appreciate it, save me a lot of energy and time to summarize the topic.
or even "a lot of time and energy" (most common sequence) :)
@@BrennanYoungThank you🙏
It is loud and clear that there is dearth of teachers like you. Superb Sir!
through thick and thin i will always be there for my family members no matter what. this video is nice,i like it
Gideon explains everything loud and clear, so that sooner or later, little by little, the learners obtain the biggest part and parcel of the language.
After listening to your marvellous teaching i reckon i know the ins and outs of binomials now
I heard all of your Binomials and trinomials loud and clear.
The English language is Unique Ambiguously rich in idioms and Sacasm I absolutely love the English language
Thank you. I'm from East Europe. No one ever mentioned binominals at school or in English books. So great. I'll start using them.
Incredible pedagogue, awesome skills,wordless regarding your way to deliver.
"Crème de la crème" perhaps made for the guy like you.
A lot of love and respect from Pakistan
By pedagogue you mean a teacher right?
@@111danish111 "Pedagogue" in French and the word exists in English as well. And that means someone who uses a pedagogy( in education generally ) in doing something. The teacher is using the pedagogy of "using the expression in the mean time he's explaining them ".
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Yup brother
Oh man amazing!... I think no one can beat you in terms of learning of native British English.. good job.
Kudos to your ways of teaching English, by and large every single binomial is loud and clear... and good and proper...
This video was pure and simple, short and sweet. There is no ifs and buts all in all I loved it.
I'm a native speaker but I watch these videos and love them :)
Why? What's is wrong?)
I am SICK AND TIRED of this bloody PANDEMIC but happy that my entire family is SAFE AND SOUND. Can't wait to see the HUSTLE AND BUSTLE in my city when this is behind us so we can all go OUT AND ABOUT following our normal routines !! SOONER OR LATER I want to meet you in person to thank you for making me a better teacher! Hope you are keeping safe Gideon! God bless.
I love the way you teaching us ..thank you sir and keep going 🌸
I love your comment. Keep watching. Thanks
He's such an inspirational and successful English teacher. He made his fortune, lock, stock and barrel, only by teaching English!
*All in all* this was very informative - thank you and all the best!!
I caught myself just smiling all throughout the video. I really really love this one! It just sounds so nerdy and elegant!!
Your videos are the bees knees! "Love dogs but love the pigs too!" I see what you did there ;)
You are one heck of an empathetic and intelligent human.
Much love and success to you
Many thanks. I love the expression "the bees knees". Love and success to you too.
You were absolutely loud and clear in making us rise and shine through this video.
He is phenomenal ❤️
I just discovered this channel, this is gold. Plain and simple.
Precise and concise 👏
Now and then I learn a thing or two from your videos, Gideon; and it's this humility, knowing that all in all, we're forever learning, that enables me to get down and dirty with my students, with confidence. "Which his fair tongue, Conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt & gracious words." -Love's Labours Lost
Curious fact, we use many of these phrases in Russian, and they mean literally the same.
Same for french !
For example "tooth and nail" is "bec et ongles" in french.
"Ups and downs" ==> "des hauts et des bas"
"Time After Time" ==> "jour après jour"
"Safe and sound" ==> "sain et sauf"
Hi how re you
In Czech as well
I had tried and tested many ways to learn English,
and maybe it looks like I repeat after you,
but it's true:
Pure and simple...
The best teacher of English
Is You!
I was praised for idioms n I guess binomials, I just let it flow. I used to be the best . Mumbo jumbo. Must admit this is the thing...🎯 tried n tested. Maybe I still am......? I know these. Beautiful . Safe n sound , happy on the ground...you name it
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I say it loud and clear, this tutorial is one of the most useful and interesting ones you offered on your stunning UA-cam channel. Thanks indeed.. 🌟 🌟 🌟
Hi Gideon! How are you doing? I'm the first viewer today and putting the comment into your comment section. This video is really useful and wonderful. Great job!
A wonderful comment. Great job on being first! Thanks
My pleasure. Anytime.
LetThemTalkTV daddy
hello
I really like the way you explained the topic, and your sense of humor.
I really like this lesson; it's awesome, thanks a lot
I enjoyed it very much. You brought back memories of when I will listen to a program entitled Everyday English on the radio in the morning before going to school when I was a teenager. I will come back to your channel to continue to learn from you come rain or shine!
First and foremost, I want to say that many students don´t improve their English because they practice every now the then.If you want to master your English, you have to repeat new phrases time after time.I understand that people have to learn new things step by step.I´m sick and tired of people who never try to improve anything in their lives.
Just suscribed to your channel; I knew most of this expressions, but not only I enjoyed learning new phrases, but also liked a lot the way you take your time to give examples for every case. Greatings from Chile and keep the good work.
10:32 it is not Down and About, it is down and out.
I am fascinated by characters like You who have the best of both worlds: an academic using the most current platform to spread his knowledge. Thank you, pure and simple.
The term "binomial" reminds me of the famous theorem from sir Isaac Newton. Newton's binomial expansion theorem and Pascal's triangle theorem are kind of flesh and blood. In my imagination, the two great mathematicians wine and dine together pretty often in heaven to give birth new formulas. Oh I think I have enough mumbo jumbo already. Anyway, I enjoyed the lesson very much. Thank you so much.
better: flesh and blood.
Flesh and blood
You do know bi stands for 2 and tri for 3 right? Binoculars, triangle, etc.
Then comes tetra, penta, hexa, hepta, octa, and so.
Thank you so much Gideon! I’m just loving it and can’t wait to share it with my C1 students. It’s just the vocabulary issue we’re currently looking at!
I really appreciate your efforts!
Dos and dont's !
You are very Calm and Collected and therefore a great teacher! Thank you.
The expression is, 'cool, calm, and collected,'
Whoa! I only know binomials as a mathematical term. But binomials, also known as
Siamese twins, binomial pairs, (irreversible binomials, nonreversible word pairs or freezes)
in the English language refer to a pair or group of words used together as an idiomatic expression or collocation, usually conjoined by the words "and" or "or."
Time and again I searched and searched and finally found this meaningful video.
Thank you sir. Binomials make a sentence interesting.
This guy reminds me of "hotel transylvania"
Thank you from india
Right bro
Yup i feel it too
Omg yess, "mavy wavy my little mouse" 😂
yup same!
Thank you sir. All of them written down and memorised, done and dusted.
I am DONE AND DUSTED with this video!
This is one of the most interesting lesson I've ever seen. you have made it very sound and clear. Thank you
Also "beg, steal or borrow," should be "beg, borrow or steal".
I'm not an andavanced learner but I enjoy with these lessons and love your passion for your students and your job.
Carry on like this and soon you will be advanced.
Alive and Kicking !
Yes, you are!
"Stay UNTIL your LOOOOVE ISSSSSSSSS." I love that song.
Thanks for your videos, they're brilliant.
As a native English speaker I'm finding your videos fascinating, and educational.
And it's a nice break from the the daily cut and thrust.
There are so many phrases that I've not even thought about before. Also, the approaches to learning multiple languages for different purposes was an eye opener.
I can just about get by in French, or at least I can smile and nod and say oui, at a pinch.
And I have a smattering of Spanish with dribs and drabs of German.
The phrase "culture culture" I haven't ever heard on daily use. But there are different parts of the UK with different words and phrases.
I too have had many ups & downs, but when it comes to my own language I never realised how much consisted of cliches, cut & dried.
The hurly-burly of the binomial and trinomial pairs is over and you have won fair and square in it
... binomial pairs and trinomial triplets... ;-)
These crisp and short binomials will certainly make one sound natural when speaking English! Your explanation of them was clear and unambiguous! Thanks!
As an American, I've never hear "tried and tested" before...
The American pair would be "tried and true".
I believe in you and have convinced me "hook, line and sinker".
You are Great 👍🏻
You are great
I always make some time from my hustle and bustle of my workday and grasp new things from the internet. Now, knowing new things has become nitty-gritty in my life.
bits and pieces
Also, bits and bobs.
I'm gobsmacked! you keep releasing original and extremely useful content. Thanks Gideon!
Thank you for your extremely kind comment.
2018 is done and dusted. So, let's be hopeful for hunky- dory 2019.🤣🤙
@@bensmith9253 it's hunky-dory.
Source : Google
@@bensmith9253 No, it definitely is not. Native speakers are often wrong.
First and foremost I love your video. As a Nigerian, born and breed. I would start using your lessons to improve my English
so nice lesson thx
Such a nice comment.
This is the kind of video I was looking for since too long and fortunately here you are explaining the nitty gritty of it in a good and proper way!!!. Thanks a bunch!!
Down and out or down and about? Or both are correct?
Down and out. means poor and homeless.
@@LetThemTalkTV but it's written down and about? And you read it down and out! We are confused.🤔
Yeah, I noticed the mistake in the transcription too.
"Out and down" should be written instead.
Sorry. " down and out"
Yes, I just checked it. It is a mistake. It should say DOWN AND OUT ....sorry my fault
my Kerala teacher told me about this channel on 19_12(dec)_2018,then i wrote down on my note book and today 03-11(nov)-2020 on nearly 10 of clock. i checked my that notebook then i saw about binomials(let them talk) about this channel.then i have watched and i have done and dusted it.thank you sir
I have to get band 7 at IELTS by hook or crook.
No ifs and buts! I am sure you will succeed! Best of luck to you!
I visit your UA-cam videos now and then, by and large I can say you are my best english teacher. your way of teaching is for sure tried and tested.
First and Foremost, it could be made Loud and Clear that everyone learning english should learn these Little by Little without any Ifs and Buts while trying not to make a song and dance about it.
Thanks. You are really good. This lesson not only enlarges one's vocabulary, but also enables the non-native speaker to distinguish between a native speaker with a talent to add a creative flourish to his speech or someone who is just speaking plain, common English. In my native language, it is quite common to invent a creative binomial on the spot , often adding a touch of humour to the phrase, especially agglutinative versions with some rhyme or alliteration in it, often pejorative, too. Is that possible in English or does the English culture of politeness and efforts to be 'normal' prohibit creative use of language? I never encounter it whereas in Dutch and French it is quite common.
Sink or swim - пан или пропал
From rags to riches - из грязи в князи
Sink or swim - или грудь в крестах, или голова в кустах 😉
@@Love_Honor89 не знала такое интересное выражение!
@@user-gj3fh4zx5t моя учительница любила нам это повторять перед экзаменом 😃 но я запомнила это виражение, потому что мой отец родом с кубанских козаков и он тоже любил это выражение
Never stop your videos and leave us high and dry...
By and large,you are one of the best in the business...
I've heard "bits and bobs" is that a real one?
Yes! It means to have a little knowledge of something or to have only partly done something. Eg 1. I know a few bits and bobs of Spanish, enough to get by. Eg 2. Did you manage to fix the car? Not totally, I repaired a few bits and bobs but it really does need a new engine.
Some of us were afraid you had gone missing! We're so glad to see that you're very much alive and kicking!
I must admit that 14 of your examples were completely new to me although 5 of them were self-explanatory for a Polish learner of English. Sadly, of the remaining 46 examples (that I heard or read before and knew their meaning) my brain was able to include in the active vocabulary less than 20. My guess is that the reason for that lies in the different functions that binomial pairs (that term is new to me) take in sentences. As far as I can recognize, some of them are adjectives, some are adverbs, they can also be noun phrases, nouns or idioms. When a native speaker puts them in a sentence, I can understand it but, in many instances, I don't feel comfortable enough to decide how to use a particular binomial.
I have just realized that the first "polynomial" I have encountered in my life was, "You know, I beg, steal or borrow to give you..." sung by The New Seekers in 1972. I'm afraid I didn't know much of English then...
Thanks for your comment. I'm sure with practice you will get them all. I vaguely remember the song "Beg, Steal or Borrow" though I was very young at the time.
I wish if you were my English teacher.
I am
Hi,Fuad,
let me correct you: I wish you were my English teacher. :)
@@1953emo Thank you☺
@@LetThemTalkTV I am proud with that☺☺
Small correction again: I am proud of that. :)
For good or worse
Gerardo Mendoza S. For better or for worse
One of my favorite lesson, I ve been learning everything, thank you!
I've started my own business and I'm not taking any help from other people. So it's sink or swim.
This is my best English teacher !