Episode 46, Intermediate English - Idioms that use the word "run," part 1 - Modismos que emplean "run" que significan "encontrarse con," "quedarse sin," y más

[00:00:00] Welcome to No Te Rindas Intermediate English, home of the Intermediate English app, disponible en no te rindas.co.u. Hello, Gabriel Sanchez, and the Christmas season is upon us. So I don't know about you but in my house we're trying to get a long list of things finished.

[00:00:51] My wife especially enjoys the buying of all the gifts and the wrapping of the gifts. And the Christmas tree, man, there's not enough time, you know?

[00:01:03] Yeah, many of my neighbors and my neighborhood put up these beautiful Christmas lights and decorations that light up or move and very into the Christmas spirit. I have not even put up a Christmas tree because I've just been so busy or such a flowhole.

[00:01:25] I guess it depends on who you ask. But it makes me think about how different Christmas is as a grown-up, as an adult, than as when we were kids. Because if you remember when we were children, we were so excited about Papa Noelle coming.

[00:01:45] And we were like, oh Santa Claus is going to bring me this or I'm going to get this for Christmas and I can't wait that it was just like the time crawled. It was so slow and never ever, it took forever.

[00:01:59] Yeah. Right. And now what happens is the Thanksgiving and then you blink your eyes and what? It's New Year's Day. Happy New Year! Exactly. So what this? And horns. What's our topic today, Gabe?

[00:02:22] Well today we are going to do part one of a two-part series on the word run and idiomatic phrases that use the word run. You know, correr. Are you in? So there must be like other uses of the word run than correr in English then.

[00:02:44] There are many, many other uses so we thought it would be fun to do that. So before we get started though, cover some vocabulary. We're just going to do a few vocabulary words that you may not know.

[00:02:58] No, the first is we're going to talk about someone who walks funny. They walk funny. If we say someone walks funny, we usually mean they come in a conunakohera. So that's to walk funny not to, doesn't have anything to do with comedy.

[00:03:18] Now speaking about other things that don't mean like what they sound, the word embarrassed, the word embarrassed. Yeah, this is a big one. The Greg is going to say he's so embarrassed or he feels embarrassed and this is It's a conunakohalso. It means avergonciado o a penado.

[00:03:40] Embarrassed does not mean embarassada. No, I'm not pregnant in the episode. We're going to talk about a slice, a slice, a sonarrebanada. So in this case we're going to talk about a slice of cake, una rebanada de pastel.

[00:03:58] Yeah. And then the last word is the verb to trade to trade when you trade something It's como intercambiar o cambiar. So it's when you give one thing to someone and they give you Something different in exchange to trade.

[00:04:16] See, Marquardla and Espanyol de la extracion gato por lebre. You're trading away your rabbit for a cat. It's not a very good exchange. It's not a good trade. What we have something that we think is going to be very helpful to you to tell you about.

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[00:05:44] Try the app and tell us what you think. Greg has worked very hard on these and I have helped a little bit. Not sure you've helped a lot. All right, our first expression with the word run is to run into

[00:06:06] to run into which is literally to hit with your body or perhaps your vehicle, come out chocar contra or also very strangely. It's simply to encounter someone or something. In contrast, say, con right to run into. So it can be a physical thing that involves

[00:06:30] sometimes physical pain or a banging noise. And then sometimes to run into just means that you saw someone and often it's an unexpected meeting. You encounter them unexpectedly. Let's start with the idea of running into someone unexpectedly. Hey Greg, guess who I ran into at the supermarket?

[00:06:58] Oh, who did you run into? I ran into my friend Mike Schumacher. You know, that guy that you ran into with your car last year? He said he spent a week in the hospital and I noticed now he walks funny. But he said his car is fixed now

[00:07:25] and he's been able to return to his job. I'm so embarrassed about that. Whenever I see Mike, I run in the other direction. So we used in this example run into two different ways, right? I was surprised to run into my friend Mike. Hello.

[00:07:52] But the thing about Mike is that Greg ran into Mike's car with his car last year and they had an accident. That's right, Mike was surprised for that. So you were surprised to run into Mike and Mike was surprised that I ran into Mike with my car. Exactly.

[00:08:13] A lot of times it'll be someone that you haven't seen in a while. So it like Gabe has mentioned or suggested it feels a little bit like a surprise when you mention it. Like, oh, you'll never guess Gabe who I ran into. Exactly.

[00:08:30] And we also say bump into or bump into. And interestingly, you can bump into someone that exactly the same way. If I'm sorry, I bumped into you. Yeah, like if you were walking in front of me and you stopped and I didn't notice, I might bump into you.

[00:08:50] But if I also say, I bumped into Carl at the store that would be like saying, I ran into him. I unexpectedly saw him. So anyway, very common phrase to run into and when you run into someone in the in-conthrar sense, usually you talk to them.

[00:09:15] If I run into somebody, there's a communication that is assumed because if you see someone and you didn't talk to them because you don't like them or you're embarrassed like I would be with this guy, Mike Schumacher, then you wouldn't say I ran into him.

[00:09:33] You would say, I avoided him, right? Loibi, they. Right. That's right. Well, alright, let's look at another one. To run out of, to run out of something is to use something until it is gone. It is to exhaust a resource. Nobody says that, but it literally means to

[00:09:58] exhaust a resource to run out of something. So it's like, get arse scene. So like you might run out of sugar. Get arse scene azúcar. So, you know what? You run out of toothpaste. Right. See latula. No, tianinada is completely plana. La pasta.

[00:10:20] And don't say, see, it's was to run out of toothpaste. I ran out of toothpaste. But we want to hit a very common phrase that may not make a lot of sense. That uses this and that is to run out of steam. Case comor quedarse scene energia.

[00:10:37] Literally, we get armentic quedarse scene va por. Right? It comes from train engines that if they, If they ran out of water, they could or ran out of fire. They could no longer make steam. And if the steam train didn't have any va por, it would stop.

[00:10:59] So it just means to slow down or stop run out of energy. So we'll, we can look at an example that uses to run out of and to run out of steam. How did the party go, Greg? Did you enjoy Felicia's birthday? You know, it was okay.

[00:11:24] But they ran out of cake before I could have a slice. We'll know, remember another. So I was a bit sad and hungry. I guess you could say I was some gre, right? No, it's sad and hungry. Oh no.

[00:11:40] Oh, it's bad to run out of cake at a birthday party. That's like the star of the show. Why didn't you go get some more cake? You know, I offered to go get some more cake. But by that time the party had sort of run out of steam.

[00:12:01] I understand everybody was sort of tired by then and they just wanted to go home. I guess but you know, I'm not really sure because I left to go to subway shortly thereafter. And you know what Gabe, they had run out of sandwiches at subway.

[00:12:21] So it was a very disappointing day. Fweyondian, Poco, Puss, Mui, Deceptionan, D'Aim. Wow, that was no good. We talk about run out of supplies. But you can also say that like someone ran out of patience, right? In my sense, yeah.

[00:12:44] So like, you know, you might be a very patient person but eventually you run out of patience. Your patience is exhausted. So this is a phrase that's used all the time. You can say, I ran out. That would mean like, do you have any more donuts?

[00:13:04] No, I ran out. I've run out of donuts. So very, very common phrase and it's probably the easiest way to say that you no longer have something. And for example, in my school, right, there's only one more week. Ke'a-dau-nase-manan, the classes.

[00:13:26] And you know, Gabe, I've run out of ideas. I have run out of ideas of how to be a good teacher at this moment with this children because they are so. I teach 11 and 12 year old boys and girls.

[00:13:43] And I've run out of patience and they've run out of patience. And my teaching is no longer very clever. I have run out of ideas too. Right, they are ready for the Christmas holiday or Christmas break or we call it winter break now. Well, I feel for you.

[00:14:01] I hope you can come up with some ideas. Let's look at another one. That is to run something by you or to run something by a person. So when you run something by someone, you're telling something to someone so that you can get their opinion. Right, it's desirlea-algin-algo-epedir-les-welpinion.

[00:14:27] So a lot of times people will say, let me run something by you. Or I want to run something by you. And that doesn't literally, for example, to say they had a chicken.

[00:14:40] It would not literally mean that they were going to get the chicken to run along the ground by you so that you could say gosh, that's a fast chicken. But instead it is just, it's like saying, hey, listen to this idea and tell me what you think.

[00:15:00] For example, pay Gabe, come in here for a second. I want to run something by you. Okay, coming. Ah. What would you think about trading your PlayStation for a brand new toaster? Toaster? Nah, bro. I use my PlayStation all the time. Oh, you do?

[00:15:32] Well, the thing is there's this lady who's meeting me in front of her office in like 20 minutes to make the trade to make the exchange. I'm giving her your PlayStation and she's giving me her toaster because I really want some toast, man, some panto stalo.

[00:15:53] Greg, next time you need to run something by me before you make the deal before you are a serer, trato. You mean, you don't like the sound of this deal? I mean, think about it. Toast! Hey, let me run this by you, Greg.

[00:16:18] Get all the larges de mi vida in a Hesmy PlayStation and POSWATE. Hmm. May I see your done, you know? Take your bread and leave. Get your crunchy toast and get out of here. Can you think of another way, or example, we might use...

[00:16:41] We hear this at work a lot, don't we? Yeah, that was just thinking that if I have an idea for how to improve my work environment, I may go to my supervisor and say, hey, let me run something by you

[00:16:53] because just like in our example with Gapes PlayStation, run something by you means I don't have permission or your blessing to do it on my own, all right? I need some sort of authorization or at least ownership from other people

[00:17:16] before I execute the change, before I do whatever the changes. So I may say to my assistant principal, hey, may I run something by you? I think we should be able to wear Dr. Su's clothes in February because it's the cat

[00:17:34] in the hat week or it's a wevels of air days going home on day or whatever. And she can say, well, thank you for running that by me, but you know, that's a terrible idea.

[00:17:46] You don't look good in stripes or whatever would be the case with my Dr. Su's clothing. At least it work. You say can I run something by you and then you tell them the idea? And then they go, oh well, I'll take that under advisement.

[00:18:06] Yes, I take that into consideration. Yes, I'll keep that in mind. I'll take that into consideration which means they don't like the idea. No, it's going to go straight into a large chivalrid on the right, the round file or the La Carpeta Riddon, which is La Papelera, right?

[00:18:26] But the round file on that means the trash came. That's true. I've definitely had to file a few things in that. Okay, well it's time for our quiz. Case together in Tukoko. What is sticky in your brain today?

[00:18:49] All right, all yenthes. Who did Gabe run into at the supermarket? He ran into someone selling a toaster. He ran into someone that Greg had run into with his car. That's a long sentence. He ran into someone that Greg had run into with his car

[00:19:19] or Gabe ran into someone with a birthday cake. Okay, who did you run into, man? Who did I run into at the supermarket? Okay, it wasn't someone selling a toaster. And there are birthday cakes for sale at the supermarket, but I didn't see anyone with a burr.

[00:19:44] It was the middle choice. It was that shoemaker guy. I ran into someone Greg had run into with his car. That's right, I ran into Mike with my car and then Gabe ran into him or saw him and spoke to him at the supermarket. Exactly.

[00:20:08] All right, number two, what did they run out of at Felicia's birthday party? A, they ran out of bacon and eggs. B, okay, they ran out of gas or C, they ran out of birthday cake.

[00:20:30] Well, I remember that the party sort of ran out of steam, but that's very different than gas. And they weren't having breakfast, so they didn't run out of bacon and eggs. Seems like the reason you went to subway is because of C, they ran out of birthday cake.

[00:20:48] They didn't have any left to give you. That is correct. I left Sangree, right? Hungry and sad. You're getting sad. You got Sangree is not a real phrase. We do say angry, angry. Yeah, angry means that you're in a bad mood because you're hungry.

[00:21:11] And this starts when we're babies, right? Babies cry when they're hungry. That's one of the reasons they cry, but for some of us it never changes. So when you get hungry and then you have a situation that might test your patients,

[00:21:25] you might get angry. And so sometimes you have to apologize and say, I'm sorry. I said that I was angry. Now that I've eaten, I don't feel so angry. I had run out of patience. I had run out of patience.

[00:21:38] And so I became angry while I was hungry. In my Spanish classroom, we, the students sometimes will say, I'm hungry or I'm hungry to combine in a jar or in a jar and in a jar. I'm hungry.

[00:21:57] Hey Gabe, what idea did I run by you that involved your PlayStation? Was it a trading your PlayStation for a toaster? Be trading your PlayStation for a birthday cake or see running out of space on the playstations hard drive and having to delete some games, some files, etc.

[00:22:30] Well that does happen a lot. It seems like no matter how big the hard drive is, it runs out of space and then I have to delete a game. But that was not the idea that you ran by me.

[00:22:45] You ran by me, the idea of trading my PlayStation for a stupid toaster. Got to a port of the every, you know? Yeah, it was a bad trade. All right. Well we want to thank you so much for listening today.

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[00:26:09] Wish me luck with one more week of children as they think about not going to school, right? Santa Claus and playing with their friends and all that stuff. Well, I will be thinking about that again. I'm just really sorry you have run out of ideas.

[00:26:30] I just hope you won't run out of patience. Too late. All right, well, I love you very much, my brother. And I look forward to doing this again in part two where we discuss more idioms with the word run. So be looking for that again.

[00:26:48] Love you too, man. Salat. Okay, Salabal.