Lesson 7: Outdoors

If you're out of the woods, you just come out of the difficult situation. Your problems have ended. And if someone says to you " You're not out of the woods yet". It means that difficult situation continues or you have more challenges than life has.

Come this way. There is another expression I want to show you. This is my neighbor's garden and you can see lots of plants and flowers and they grow quite well. That's because she has a green thumb.

If you have a green thumb, it means you have talent for gardening, you can make things grow well, like my neighbor.

Now, these flowers are pretty, but truthfully, I prefer roses. And that makes me think of my last expression: "a bed of roses."

If your life's a bed of roses, you have life of ease and comfort, even luxury.

And your life has no bed of roses, well, you have a lot of hardship to deal with. Understand?

Let's preview.

We have three expressions. The first was "out of the woods", or "to be out of the woods" which means to come out of the difficult situation. Then we had a green thumb or to have a green thumb - a talent for gardening or you can make things grow well. And the last, a bed of roses - a life of ease and comfort, got it?

Let's see.

I have three statements, and I'm going to read them to you and you tell me which expressions complete each one. Ok?

Here's the first:

My mother's garden is the biggest and the most colorful in the neighborhood, she really has____________.

Answer: a green thumb.

Next.

A fisherman's life is no ________. The sea can be rough and fishermen often sleep for only a few hours a day.

What completes it? no bed of roses.

And the last one. Charlie's business stop losing money, but he's not________yet. He still has a large debt to pay.

Answer: not out of the woods yet.

How did you do? I'm sure you did just right.

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Thank you and goodbye.