Episode 48, Intermediate English: Idioms with "run," part 2! Más modismos que utilizan "run"

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[00:00:22] I am Goyo, Greg, here with my brother, my brother, Gabriel, and Gabriel Hi, Greg! Hey, today is New Year's Eve which means tomorrow will be 2024. That's crazy! Wow, another trip around the sun, as they say. Well it's gone by so fast as happens as we get older.

[00:00:51] The New Year's holiday is a time that people start to think about what we call resolutions, new years resolutions and those are like a goal that we set for ourselves that usually involves some change of some sort, usually for the better. Do you have any new years resolutions?

[00:01:11] Yeah, I have one in particular that I'm going to try to follow in my classroom at my school, I'm a school teacher and I think it's good that I'm going to play more guitar and sing with my students more.

[00:01:37] That would be my goal. It makes me happy to sing in Plegetar and it makes them happy and it changes the environment of the classroom so I think that I will play more guitar and sing. What about you? I like that.

[00:01:52] I've pretty much been doing a little bit of exercise every day and I want to continue doing that in 2024. It would be really nice to add some book sale in addition to the strengthening exercises I'm doing.

[00:02:13] Now, I noticed that you didn't say that you wanted to run as part of your New Year's resolution but running does have something to do with our topic today, isn't that true? Yes, today is part two of phrases with the important word run.

[00:02:31] Recently we talked about running to run out of and run by this was two episodes ago in episode 46. Today we're going to use three more idioms that include the word run. And as we so often do at the beginning of an episode, we have a brief vocabulary list.

[00:02:55] Today we're going to use the word poison or poisonous in English. Poison is vinnanno and poisonous is beninocio. We're also going to talk about standing two close to something, standing or two stand two close to something.

[00:03:16] And this would be a star de masiado cerca or cada arse de masiado cerca algo. We're also going to say that someone looks forward to something, looks forward to something. To look forward to means that you acerle ilusión or teneer much as ganas de algo.

[00:03:44] And finally, kind of the opposite that is to dread something to dread something. And that's to temear algal.

[00:03:56] Right, so that's looking forward to something is when you're excited about something in the future and when you dread something means you feel unhappy or fearful about something in the future. So why don't we get on to the episode itself?

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[00:05:51] This means to try to escape and you'll hear this in Superhero movies movies that have jail or prison action movies. They'll have something where someone is trying to make a run for it. Holy smoke Batman the Joker has turned on his poison spray. I can barely breathe.

[00:06:20] You're right. You're right Robin. It's time we make a run for it to the safety of the Batmobile. To the Batmobile. To the Batmobile. Another case of make a run for it that comes to mind.

[00:06:39] If for example you're watching a gunfight in a movie, Abala Seda in the Nabelli. Sometimes someone will say to their partner, cover me. I'm going to make a run for it. And that means that the second person has to shoot at the enemy.

[00:07:01] So if the first person has protection while they run and making a run for it in that case means they're trying to get to safety. One time I hear this used frequently in daily life is when it's raining really hard.

[00:07:19] And you're sitting in your car or you're under a bus stop. And you've been waiting for the rain to maybe not rain so hard. We would call it rain to lighten up or to slow down.

[00:07:33] We say I'm going to okay, I'm going to make a run for it. And that's when you run out into the rain and go into the house or get on the bus or whatever it is you need to do.

[00:07:44] I do hear this a lot. We're ready to make a run for it. Yes, let's go. And then you run out into the rain. Yeah, I'm so glad that we can think of an example that's not violent.

[00:07:56] Hopefully we don't have to run away from too many gun fights or poisonous sprays or poisonous gas. Yeah. All right. What's the next one? The next one is get the run around. Get the run around or give the run around.

[00:08:15] So you can as a participant, you can receive this by getting the run around. Or if you're in a position of power, you can give the run around. And this is very popular in a customer service environment.

[00:08:33] This means that you're having your time wasted. Someone is wasting your time either as a person or an organization. Alguien Pierre de Tiempo a propósito con motivos de acerte rendir. Right. So when someone gives you the run around, they are hoping that you run out of steam.

[00:08:57] We talked about run out of steam last time we talked about run. So they're hoping that you get tired, right? You run out of steam and you get tired so that you'll stop asking for what you're asking for and go away.

[00:09:11] Speaking of phone calls, why don't we listen to one? Sounds great. Uh, sir, to get you the help you need, I'll need to transfer you to our parts department. No, I'm not. No way, man. I was transferred to you from the parts department.

[00:09:40] Look, I have been on this call for 25 minutes already. Now stop giving me the run around and fix my issue. Uh, let me see if I can get a manager from the parts department on the line. Please hold.

[00:10:10] So there are certainly cases where you get the run around from companies, but also you can get the run around from bureaucracies in government. You need a permit or certification or a license of some kind from a government agency.

[00:10:34] And you feel like you can't ever finish the task and so in English we would say, oh, you're getting the run around. Yeah, yeah, the the driver's license bureau is giving you the run around for example.

[00:10:48] Yes, all many of us have had had the run around from a government agency when we were trying to get something accomplished. So the next idiom is to run around. So as opposed to get or give a thing, which was the run around right that's a noun.

[00:11:12] This is to run around. This is an action to run around and this means to run errands or I say, I'll let's recognize those.

[00:11:24] So to run around can literally mean to run from place to place. So like you might say, the children were outside running around, which would mean they might be chasing each other from one place to the other as you and I used to do when we were kids.

[00:11:46] But if you say that you know that you need to run around or you were out running around usually as an adult, it means that you are running errands. Would you agree?

[00:11:58] It doesn't mean necessarily that you're like wearing sneakers or tennis shoes and getting your heart rate up. It means that you're going from place to place through a series of small tasks. How about an example, Gabe? Okay.

[00:12:20] Hey, goyo. Can we meet at Hooters to eat some wings? Al-Algunas al-Litas and watch some football this afternoon? Oh man that sounds fantastic but I can't. I've got to run around all afternoon.

[00:12:38] Oh you shouldn't have to run around on a Saturday at your day off. Can I help?

[00:12:45] Oh, I'm William Mabile very kind but I have to go to the bay. I have to take my cat to the veterinarian and then I'm meeting a guy from Facebook Marketplace because I'm buying another guitar.

[00:13:05] Oh, I guess in sure we're going to be running around. I look forward to eating your wings then. So you'll never guess what happened to me when I was running around this past Sunday. Tell me what happened.

[00:13:26] You remember those two pet monkeys we were talking about a couple of episodes back? Well yes, yes I do. Well I was out running around. I happened to see them cross the street. I couldn't believe it. I honked my horn.

[00:13:42] Anyway, I was I was out running around when I saw them running some errands. Okay, I was a little bit of a little bit of danger here with run around because if you are running around on the weekend,

[00:14:03] it means you're going to the store, going to the bank. But interestingly, Gabe, to run around also means to inganjar a tu pareja. So when you run around on somebody, it means that you're not being faithful to them. That's right. Context.

[00:14:27] Hey Gabe, you told me that Maggie, that girl we know has been flirting with you, right? Do you want to talk about Cocotando? You should not date her. You should not go out with her. She ran around. She ran around on her last boyfriend and broke his heart.

[00:14:47] Gosh, thank you for telling me. I was thinking about going out with Maggie but I don't want to go out with someone who would run around on me. All right, so we've talked about making a run for it, getting or giving the run around and to run around.

[00:15:11] Our last expression is to run over to run over. Now run over has two common meanings in American English. The first meaning is to squash or splat or crush someone or something by either stepping on them or hitting them or driving over them with a vehicle, such as

[00:15:46] So, you know, people might say, unfortunately I ran over your dog. Right, and that would mean I hit your dog with a car or my dog got run over. People say that and that would mean someone hit my dog with a car.

[00:16:05] So I think that would be a throw payar or a car. And in some cases, it would be like a plus star. I'm being right. And what's the other way we use it? Yeah, the second meaning is to just go over your a lot of time.

[00:16:24] So you have a certain amount of time that you're given to do something and you went past that time. You took too long. You took too much time. And so in English we say, oh, well you ran over your time.

[00:16:40] And that would be like a lot of gotta say a lot of gotta say in Spanish. Right, so sometimes our episodes run over but I don't know. But this is something that happens a lot.

[00:16:54] People tell you that a meeting is going to last 30 minutes and then you look up and then you've been in the meeting for 45 minutes. So then when you're late to your next meeting, you say, I'm sorry. My first meeting ran over. That's right. My first meeting ran over.

[00:17:10] Let's look at some examples with run over. Why don't we start with the first meaning the a tropear meaning? Hey, Greg, I'm so sorry that I ran over your foot with my motorcycle yesterday. No, no, no. It's my own fault.

[00:17:30] I was standing right there too close to your bike and wasn't paying attention. No, no, I should have been paying more attention. It's just that I was in such a big hurry.

[00:17:42] So now let's look at an example with the concept of taking too much time or going over your a lot of time. Gabe, didn't you have a presentation to do it work today? How to go? Yeah, I had the presentation and I've been dreading it.

[00:18:06] Well, call it the way. How to turn out? Uh, not great. I ran over on my time and a lot of people got up and left before I got to the last part of the presentation.

[00:18:22] I'm so sorry to hear that people left your presentation because you ran over Gabe. I would have stayed. I can't believe that people weren't more interested in learning about the various uses of potatoes in the workplace.

[00:18:40] Potatoes are so useful and a lot of people missed out on the last ways they can be used. There was. That was run over. So run over again can be to run into something or drive over something with a vehicle or with your body,

[00:19:01] or it can mean to extend over the amount of time that you originally had set for an event, for example. That's right. It's time for our quiz. Case together in a cocoa oil. What is sticky in your brain, Ointy? Question number one.

[00:19:29] Cable. What did Batman and Robin do when they were being poisoned by the Joker? One. They made a sandwich. Two. They made a run for it. Or option three, they gave the Joker the run around. Hmm.

[00:19:53] So Batman and Robin were being exposed to this poisonous spray, this guy. That's right. And it's set off there as well. Let's see. So they didn't make a sandwich that wouldn't make any sense.

[00:20:11] You'd want to wait and make your sandwich after you got out of the poisonous spray, and they didn't give the Joker the run around. They weren't trying to keep him from getting what he wanted by setting up a bunch of obstacles.

[00:20:26] So I'm going to say it's option two. They made a run for it. They got away from the poison by getting into the bat mobile and driving away. That is correct. Well done, sir. Oh, that was hard one. Question number two, go you.

[00:20:46] If I get the run around, if I get the run around, that means that A, someone is not giving me what I want by setting up obstacles. B, someone is taking me on a run so that we can run over obstacles or see someone is running over me.

[00:21:11] Perhaps because they can't see me because of an obstacle. Well, those all sound quite similar, but if you get the run around, we send that the run around is like the government or a business wasting your time. Okay, so you want, okay.

[00:21:33] Yeah, so it's someone is not giving me what I want. And so I'm getting the run around from them. That is absolutely correct. You're having to go through obstacles and you're wasting your time and you're not getting what you want. So that's exactly right.

[00:21:51] If I get the run around, that means that someone is wasting my time. They're not giving me what I want. At least not giving it to me easily. Things should be easier, I argue. All right, our final question or you're in this,

[00:22:07] what did Gabe run over with his motorcycle? A, Gabe ran over a turtle. B, Gabe ran over in his meeting. Or see Gabe ran over Greg's foot. Okay, well, you didn't think about this. I did not run over a turtle. Thank goodness, I really liked turtles.

[00:22:38] And although I did run over in a presentation in one of our examples, that is not anything to do with a motorcycle. So you weren't driving your motorcycle in the meeting. Right. But what I did run over was Greg's big foot.

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[00:25:31] I'm excited tonight about seeing some fireworks hearing some some play goes out to Fisiales in my neighborhood and giving my wife a big kiss at 12 o'clock. And I hope that all your dreams come true in the year that's ahead. Well, same here, buddy.

[00:25:53] I have had so much fun this year making these episodes with you and really appreciate all of our listeners that have personally thanked us for helping with their English comprehension. So let's eat 12 grapes tonight and ring the name 2024. Sounds good. Talk to you soon.

[00:26:13] All right. I love you. I'll talk to you later. Bye-bye. All right. Love you too. Bye-bye.