Day13 How To Use Brush It Off In Conversation

Hi, I’m Vanessa from speakenglishwithvanessa.com. And today, I’m going to tell you a story about something bad that happened that I need to brush it off. And secondly, I’m going to explain the expression Brush it off. Let’s get started.

This story took place last February. I was teaching a skype lesson to someone in this room. And at the same time, I was cooking some dinner in the other room. But I forgot about it. I forgot that I had turned on the oven, and I was cooking, I was reheating some chili. I think it was chili on the stove. So I was teaching my lesson and the chili was reheating on the stove. And then in the middle of my skype lesson, I smelt something very strong that’s smelled burnt. And my husband had just come home, and he walked into the kitchen. And the kitchen was full of smoke. There was smoke everywhere because my chili was burning to a crisp. To a crisp means really really burnt. So the chili was completely black. I was teaching my lesson, and I didn’t want to interrupt it. So I just kept teaching on skype. And I smelled the smoke, I smelled the chili. And l thought it’s a disaster. But at least my husband just got home, he can fix the problem. I can finish my lesson. And it would be OK. So the kitchen was full of smoke. And it was the middle of winter, so my husband tried to open the window to let the smoke out. But the windows were very brittle. Brittle means very hard and easy to break. Because in the winter, sometimes the glass get really hard and if you hit it the wrong way, it might break. So, you can image what happened. The chili is burning, the smoke is filling the kitchen, and he tries to open the window. And the window breaks. So I hear, well, while I was teaching my lesson, I hear glass shatter. And I didn’t hear my husband screaming or anything, so I figured he’s probably OK. He’s not bleeding or really hurt. And the chili was burning, the kitchen was full of smoke, the window was broken and I was trying to finish my skype lesson. In a few minutes, my lesson finished, I ran into the kitchen to see what happened. And he was OK, thankfully, he just had a little cut. But the window was broken, our dinner was burnt, and there was nothing we could do about it. You can’t change the past. So, we just have to brush it off. brush it off. brush it off is an expression to means forget about it, don’t worry about it. Just think about it and get over it. We already talked about the expression Get over it in the video “Five Get Expressions”. You just have to get over it. So, in the situation, we just have brushed it off. It was a problem. Yes, our chili was burnt, the window was broken, it was cold outside. The wind was coming in. But we can’t get angry about it, you can’t get upset about it. You just have to brush it off.

So, my question for you is has there been a time in your life when something happened that was bad, annoying, difficult? And you just have to brush it off. You didn’t want to think about it for a long time, or get upset about it for a long time, or angry about it. You just had to brush it off.

Thanks so much for watching this video. Don’t forget to download my free e-book. You can click on the link below to do that. I’ll talk to you later. Goodbye.

February 二月

chili 红辣椒

brittle 易碎的

shatter 打碎