Smart English Phrases For Effective Public Speaking | Increase Your English Fluency With Hridhaan

Hi everyone, my name is Hridhaan and I welcome you with a very big heart on Let's Talk. Very

important question, “Do you like interacting with people?” Well if you do then let me

tell you today's lesson is for you because in today's lesson we're going to be talking

about everyday English phrases that you can use as you interact with people day in and

day out, so what are we waiting for let's get started…

The first phrase in the list

that we have is, “age before beauty”. Well everybody knows what is age and what

is beauty, but if we put them together with ‘before’, what does it mean? It means

to give preference to an older person. That means if there are two people, one person

is beautiful and the other person is a little old but with brains and more experience of

life, and if somebody has to choose amongst these two, people the person would go for

an old one who has got experience of life that is the situation wherein we use this

phrase, ‘age before beauty’. Let's see how we can use it in the form of an example

here, “She handed over the piece of cake to him saying age before beauty.” So there

was a cake and it was a, let's say a birthday party or let's say the celebration of a new

organization and the cake cutting ceremony happened, and the person actually offered

the cake to not the one who was beautiful but to the one who had more experience and

so the person said, ‘age before beauty’, that means I give preference to one's knowledge

and experience of life rather than the beauty. Let us move on to the next phrase, the next

one is “Acid test”. You must have heard about acid rain and what is an acid, it is

a chemical of a sort, but what is ‘an acid test’? It means a critical experiment, “What

is a critical experiment?” Critical is important that tells us the reality of something, for

example if you're interacting with somebody, you can say, it was a critical experiment,

“it was an acid test” it was an acid test. For example, “The acid test of an artist

is whether he remains calm or not when he or she receives criticism.” that means,

the real test of an artist is, an important test of an artist's personality is when somebody

criticizes that person and that person in that situation has to show how calm he or

she is and that is when you actually prove the acid test of being a real artist. You

can use the situation not just for artists, this phrase but for any kind of situation

for any kind of person whenever it is a critical important test of one's reality. Let's see

the next one, “I don't buy it”. What is I don't buy it? I don't buy doesn't mean I

don't want to purchase it, it means, to disagree. So if you disagree with somebody on something

you can just simply say, “I don't buy it, I'm afraid.” I don't buy it. For example,

“my father says that his latest schemes will make millions, but I don't buy it. So

probably let's say, the father is a multimillionaire or maybe a politician and the son says I disagree

with him, I don't buy him because I see some flaws and it might as well. So whenever you

have to disagree with somebody on something, you can say, ‘I don't buy it’. The next

one is “appeal to”. Appeal is more like a legal term but a lot of people use it in

our daily lives when they interact with each other and it basically means to make a request,