15 Review, Question #5 with Explanation

Key English Idioms: Get Your Hands Dirty - Money and Business Key English Idioms: "get your hands dirty" | Money and Business
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Transcript

Question number five. I see a picture in the idiom. In the picture, I see a dark woods or forest. There's a light shining, and there's a guy with his arms out. And he's looks like he's coming towards us. This should be interesting.

Finish the conversation using the idiom and the picture. So here's the incomplete conversation. The first person says, we looked up and saw the evil murderer running toward us in the dark. The police were chasing after him. So we have a great opportunity here to have a little conversation about this picture and using the idiom. So your job is to finish the conversation using the idiom and the picture.

Take your time, pause the video and think what would be a great way to continue this conversation. There are lots of possibilities. And in a moment, I will show you what I came up with. So pause the video, take some time, think about it, and finish this conversation and make sure you use the ATM at least once. All right, I'm going to show you my answer in 54321. All right, so the first part of the conversation.

Well, this is just an interesting situation, right? This creepy guy is coming towards us in the woods. We look up and saw the evil murderer running towards toward us in the dark. The police were chasing after him. So this guy's a murderer. He's just killed someone right?

So the second person says, Wow, that's incredible. I would be so scared. What did You do next? Haha, well continuing the conversation and the person responds, we got our hands dirty and helped the police. We grabbed some branches and smacked big guy over the head. All right, and let's make this obvious that it's a conversation that they're talking about out loud.

So we're going to add quotations all around. quotations are just a simple way to indicate to whoever's reading it. It's a conversation that's spoken out loud. Okay, let's find the idiom. We got our hands dirty. Whoo.

Okay. So let's see the cost conversation, we looked up and saw the evil murderer running toward us in the dark. The police were chasing after him. Don't been fun. Wow, that's incredible. I would be so scared.

What did you do next? We got our hands dirty and help the police. We grab some branches and smack the guy over the head. We can see that this conversation is happening after what happened in the picture. So the two people are talking and one was there. What happened in the picture and they're explaining to someone else what happened and how it ended.

So when they say we got our hands dirty, and helped the police, so we're using definition number one of get your hands dirty, where you get involved and you help out. and in this situation, it's not our responsibility to do the work for the police, but we decided to help them out. By golly we grabbed some branch Just like the sticks that fall from trees and smack the guy over the head, and then he was probably knocked out, passed out, or he was delayed long enough for the police to get there and grab them and put them in handcuffs. So when we said we got our hands dirty and help the police, we could have said, We helped out or we got involved and help the police. Alright, so that's the conversation. I'm also going to show you another way that we could finish this conversation.

All right, so it starts again, we looked up and saw the evil murderer running toward us in the dark. The police were chasing after him. I heard about that chase through the woods. There were some people in the woods Who helped the murderer? escape? Ooh, now it's getting a little bit juicy.

That was us. We got our hands dirty and helped him escape. The guy paid off each $1 million. We're rich. All right. Let me add in my quotations and make the idiom bold.

This conversation ended a little bit different than the other one. So it looks like the guy got away and he was helped, huh? Okay, so here's the full conversation. We looked up and saw the evil murderer running toward us in the dark. The police were chasing after him. I heard about that chase through the woods.

There were some people in the woods who help the murderer escape. That was us. We got our hands dirty and helped him escape. The guy paid us each $1 million. We're rich. This is an interesting situation.

Because God our hands dirty, can mean both meanings number one and number two of this idiom, because the first definition which is to help out to get involved, well, we helped. We helped the murderer escape, but we also got our hands dirty by committing by breaking the law by committing a crime. So I imagine the police are probably not too happy that we help this guy out. So the guy decided to pay us each a million dollars. Huh, if we wanted to change the ATM to other words, similar words, we could have said, We broke the law and helped him escape. Or you could say we got involved and helped him escape this unique situation.

So this idiom here can mean both helping out, get involved and also to do something illegal. Okay? So murderers, just a person who commits murder, please, we're chasing after him. And for some reason, there are some people in the woods, and they're like, Huh, the guy comes running up says, Hey, I'll keep up $2 million. If you help me escape. If people are like, ah, lovely, right this way, come in our car and we'll drive you across town and drop you off and you'll be free.

So they're rich. And who knows the police have probably locked them all up. Later, they probably won't even be able to use the million dollars. Hmm. We Just finished review of the idiom get your hands dirty. How did you do?

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