Super Catchy Phrases To Describe People, Appearance & Personality - Advanced English Speaking Lesson

Have you met beautiful people in your life? Well beautiful from the heart but also from

the exterior. Their personalities were so catchy that you always wanted to kind of give

them a compliment but all you could say in the end was, “I think you're really amazing”,

“I think you're really great”… Well today's lesson is one such lesson, because

in today's lesson we are going to be talking about super catchy ways to describe appearances

and people and their personalities, so what are we waiting for? If you want to continue

learning all of these phrases please stay tuned with me on this lesson, my name is Hridhaan

and I welcome you with a very big heart on Let's Talk. Let's get started, the first phrase

in the list is, “a fraidy cat” so here we have ‘cat’, fraidy, what does fraidy

mean? It's got something to do with someone, someone who ‘gets scared easily’ so what

is a fraidy cat? Fraidy cat is a person who gets scared easily. For example, do you think

children are fraidy cat? A lot of children definitely are. Let's see how we can use it

in an example, “stop being a fraidy cat get inside the room and switch off the lights”.

Well at night who doesn't get scared and so it is being instructed to the person that

‘stop being a fraidy cat please, step inside the room and switch, switch the tube light

let's say… This is for the fraidy-cat, let's move on to the next one, the next one is “an

old hand”. What is an old hand? An old hand is a person who's an expert at doing things,

because that person has an experience in doing that thing for a very, very long time. For

example, “this one is a very complicated machine, it needs an old hand to run it”,

what is the meaning of an old hand? It means it needs an expert to run this machine back

again because it is a complicated one. So a person who has a lot of experience in using

the machine already can only help us in running it better and smoothly. The next example is,

“the law is very strict in this country, you need an old hand in law to help you get

out of it”, that means somebody's actually stuck in the law and order of a country and

that person needs an old hand, an expert to help him or her to get out of the troublesome

affair, whichever it be that the person is stuck in, that is how we can use ‘an old

hand’ to describe a person, a personality. “Fresh as a daisy”. Imagine if somebody

asks you, “how are you?” Everybody says, “I'm fine” there's one of the phrases

that we learnt, in one of the lessons and that is ‘fit as a fiddle’ but besides

that if you're short of phrases and collocations what can you use? You can say this, ‘fresh

as a daisy’. What is fresh as a daisy? Feeling energetic, that means I am feeling energetic

thank you very much. “After bathing he was feeling as fresh as a daisy” that means

he felt quite fresh and energetic after taking a bath. Next is, “be as fresh as a daisy

on your first day to work”, whenever you go in the first talk in the organization that

you work on your first day be as fresh as a daisy, don't just be fine be as fresh as

a daisy. The next word is “good for nothing”. Now this is something that is actually not

quite, that is not used in quite a positive sense, it means ‘a worthless person’ or

‘a worthless item’. Something that is actually of no use. For example, “don't

expect anything from him, he's a good-for-nothing creature.” He's a good-for-nothing creature