English Idioms - BOOT

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Ow, what the? Hi, I'm James. I'm EngVid. Ow, what are you hitting me with your boot for?

Oh, it seems we're on boot camp.

Ezekiel, I don't know if you know this, but he went to Mexico.

Try and find the video where Ezekiel went to Mexico, it's a very good lesson.

Anyway, it seems he's back from Mexico, and he joined the army.

So he thinks, he thinks this is boot camp.

Okay, Ezekiel thinks this is boot camp. He's a crazy worm, what can I say?

Okay, if you don't know what this is, this is a boot.

Now, a boot is like a shoe, okay?

Shoe. I'm not very flexible, I don't do yoga anymore.

But a boot comes up higher, and it's stronger, usually stronger, because people use it in construction,

or heavy extreme jobs, or in the winter time when it's very, very wet and it's cold,

we put our boots on, okay? Because the weather is extreme.

So we usually use boots for this. You wouldn't wear a boot to a party, okay?

You wouldn't look cool dancing in your boots. Go to work, okay? Boots are for work.

So we understand the idea. A boot is for work.

Now Ezekiel, sorry I dropped my paper because he kicked me in the butt with his boot.

Sometimes we give people the boots. I'll come back to that in a second.

Because what we're going to look at is the following, okay?

We're going to look at, Ezekiel thinks this is boot camp.

I'll tell you what boot camp is.

Okay, I'm going to talk about, oh sorry, boot camp.

Well, I'm going to, we're going to have a dialogue,

and we'll also talk about, well, you're probably watching this on the computer, I think.

So, okay? We're going to talk about that.

Then we're going to also talk about, alright, I'm being lazy.

This is somebody. I'm being lazy today.

Somebody. I'm going to do one more.

I'm going to get lazy again.

So, why don't we go over it and see what Mr. Ezekiel wants to talk about.

Boot camp. Military. Right away, he's wearing a military.

I think he's a sergeant. Look, he's got stripes.

Ooh, he's a sergeant. He's got stripes on his arms.

He's saying, Sergeant Ezekiel, right?

So, Sergeant Ezekiel is in boot camp. This is military.

A boot camp is a place where you go for training, military training.

That's true and not true.

They also do it for sports. High level sports, sometimes they go to boot camp,

which means they go to get the basic training in.

Usually, before they get to join the team, they join in sort of a boot camp

and they have to do like military, not military, but train hard

and then they will see if the person is good enough to actually go on the team.

So, think high level sports like World Cup soccer, right?

They have a camp of sorts.

Now, boot camp usually is military, which means a person who's never been in the military

goes in and becomes this, right? American G.I. Joe, real American hero.

Or Israeli hero, French hero, Deutschland hero, Canadian hero.

You're a soldier, right?

They go to boot camp to train to become soldiers, all right?

This is old school. No computer graphics, no special effects.

See, me, marker and a worm.

That's boot camp, okay?

Now, if you're watching this lesson, you probably, I'm thinking,

unless you have the DVD, I probably look better on DVD.

High definition, yeah?

Anyway, I keep saying that because I want somebody to say something nice.

Say something nice.

Okay, you probably have to turn on your computer.

So, if you did that, you had to boot up, boot up the computer, okay?

You booted up your computer.

It needs to start the computer to get all the functions going.

Okay, you turn on the on button, and then, you know,

if you're like me and you have a computer like mine,

you turn on the computer, you leave, go on vacation for a week,

come back, and then it goes, "Boom!"

Windows is now ready to operate, okay?

You booted up your computer.

It usually takes two or three minutes to make some tea, okay?

To boot up the computer.

Cool? You like that? Okay.

Ezekiel now, see, look, he's got a laptop.

He's going to boot up his computer.

And it says, "EngVid."

See, he booted up to EngVid.

See, that's number two.

See, computer graphics, good, yeah?

Give someone the boot.

Give them the boot.

Now, there are two meanings for this.

One, if you got the boot from your job, it means you were fired.

Yes, you're worried, fired.

Your boss goes, "We have to give you the boot, Jackson."

Remember, I got the boot, kick, boom, out.

To give you the boot.

Someone gives you the boot.

Give someone the boot.

Losing their job.

They fired him from the military.

Now he's not happy.

He's angry now because he got the boot.

But you can boot someone as well.

To boot someone out.

It's a little different.

We'll go down here.

To boot somebody means basically the same thing.

If you boot somebody out of your office, okay, you ask them to leave or tell them to leave.

Now, you can also use give someone the boot for the same kind of thing.

I gave him the boot.

I kicked him out of the party.

Now, as I said, we use this for firing, but we can also talk about just to say get lost.

We kicked them out.

But a simpler way of saying that is to boot them.

I booted him out of the office.

Booted him out.

It's not to give them.

Just booted him out.

Not too confusing.

Like Batman in the 1960s.

This one or this one.

Boot him out of the party.

Give him the boot.

Get rid of him.

Now, here's the deal.

If somebody tells you they're going to give you the boot or boot you out, you might start

No, I'm not in Japan.

It's not an earthquake.

Now, imagine me wearing my boots.

I'm shaking my boots.

It means I'm afraid.

You have them shaking in their boots.

That means they're afraid.

So, if somebody is shaking in their boots, they're afraid of you because nobody really

wants to be given the boot.

If you're in a country with an army, you don't want to go to boot camp.

That will make you shake in your boots.

And sometimes if you have a computer as old and as bad as mine, you're usually shaking

in your boots because you think it's going to crash and that will be the end of your

So, if you like that one, boot, don't close down your computer because you'll have to

boot it back up.

Now, I would give any other English group a boot or any other English language website

and come to ours, right?

Come to the good one.

You'll leave them shaking in their boots because they're like, "No, they're going to see James

But that's okay.

Remember, a boot is for work.

And that's what we do.

Extreme English.

Yeah, I'm crazy.

But, what I'm going to do now is, I've been given the boots.

I have like ten minutes before I need to get out of here.

So, I'm going to tell you where to go to learn more about boots, better drawings, and see

Ezekiel at his best.

Did I ever tell you the story about Ezekiel getting drunk and doing, he was over this

side, he was drunk and he was, it's a Christian Bale video, I think.

I keep saying that because it's a good one.

Go to one, no, not one, www.engvid.com where you can learn grammar, idioms, slang, IELTS,

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They gave me the boot now, see.