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AE 299 – Expression: To Cross That Bridge When You Come To It

By pete — 2 years ago
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Learn Australian English in this Expression episode of Aussie English where I teach you to use TO CROSS THAT BRIDGE WHEN YOU COME TO IT like a native!

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AE 299 – Expression: To Cross That Bridge When You Come To It

Morning guys.

How’s it going? How have you been? What you been up to? What you’ve been up to?

That’s a really good greeting in Australian English. What you been up to? What have you been up to?

“What have you been up to?” meaning “what have you been doing?”.

How has your week been going? I hope you guys have been well. I finally had my final presentation for the PhD.

So, I spent all week, well all the fortnight really, the last two weeks, putting that together practicing it, rehearsing it.

And then, yesterday, the day before yesterday, on Thursday, I got to present in front of the University.

That said, there weren’t that many people there. It was probably a small room of about 20 people.

It was pretty good. It took about, you know, 30 or 40 minutes for me to get through my 96 slides in my Power Point presentation for these guys.

But, yeah, (I) felt really good. We had pizza afterwards. I hung around with everyone there for a bit.

And then, (I) had to jump back home and give some private lessons.

So, it was a good day except for the fact that it pissed down rain.

So, it was raining cats and dogs as we had to walk from the Museum over to the University.

So, the University requires me to give my final presentation in the University or at the university, although I am based at the Museum.

So, I’m normally at the Museum because my supervisor is based at the museum.

That’s where he works. And so, I work there with him.

But I am enrolled through Melbourne University.

Anyway, so, aside from that, last night we went out. So, it was a big party with the lab that I work in.

So, all the people that I work with who are also students studying at the Museum.

We went out to a place called The Napier Hotel. N-A-P-I-E-R. And that is in Fitzroy.

So, for anyone living in Melbourne or planning to visit Melbourne, I really recommend going to the Napier, N-A-P-I-E-R, in Fitzroy, because they have the most amazing parmas.

So, “parma” is an Australian slang term for parmigiana. I’m probably saying that incorrectly.

Basically, a parma is a dish, a certain food, where you get… you usually get a salad, some chips, and you’ll get a chicken breast that’s been cooked in crumbs.

And then it usually has ham on top with cheese on top of that with tomato sauce on it as well.

Forgive me, my alarm just went off.

So, parmas are one of my favourite meals to go out and have in Australian pubs.

The Napier is an Australian pub.

This is one of these stereotypical Australian meals that you’ll find if you go out and about in Australia.

And so, the reason the one at The Napier is so good is because they use smoked kangaroo.

So, that may come as a bit of a shock to some of you guys, but we can eat kangaroo in Australia.

They are actually a pest species.

There’s way way way too many of them because of all the farming that we do.

They breed like crazy. Anyway, we can eat them. We have them often at restaurants.

You can get them at Woolworths, which is a supermarket chain.

But, the Napier’s so good because it’s smoked kangaroo that they use instead of ham.

Anyway, these parmas are huge. They’re about the size of your head. Really really really good good food.

On top of that, we drank a whole heap of beer.

Definitely more than I should have drunk, but I made it home in the end.

I, you know, walked home through the streets after hanging out with all of my friends, and we all parted ways, and (I) came home and pretty much got straight into bed.

So, I got home, walked through the door, and hit the sack. I hit the hay.

I went to bed pretty much straight away. So, that’s been my week.

That’s been my last evening. I am now sitting here in front of my computer chatting to you guys with a coffee.

So, (I’m) trying to sort of, hopefully, cleanse a little bit today, and be a little more healthy.

I might go get a salad for lunch. Anyway, today’s going to be an awesome episode, guys.

Let’s get into it.

So, today’s expression is “to cross a bridge” or “to cross that bridge when you come to it”.

“To cross that bridge when you come to it”. As usual guys, let’s just get into it.

Let’s define the words in the expression to cross that bridge or to cross a bridge when you come to it.

So, “to cross”, “to cross something”, this is to traverse something, to pass over something.

To go from one place to another place to cross something.

So, you could cross a river if you use a bridge to literally go across the river.

You cross the river. You could cross an ocean if you were in a boat. You could cross the ocean by sailing.

Or you could be in a plane and you could fly over the ocean, to cross it.

You could cross the ocean by flying over it. So, that’s the verb “to cross”.

“A bridge.” “A bridge” is a structure for walking, for driving, for riding across to pass over something usually a road or a river, a building, a path.

A bridge is a structure for crossing something else, for going over something else. A bridge.

“To come to”, “to come to something” is to arrive at something.

So, “to come to a stop” is to arrive at a stop. “To come to a place” is to arrive at a place.

So, I could say, “Today, I have come to this beach to go for a swim. I have arrived at this beach to go for a swim”.

“To come to” is to arrive at.

As usual, let’s go through and define the expression, guys.

So, if you say to someone, “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.” or you tell them that they need to cross that bridge when they come to it, it means that they need to solve that problem when and if it arises.

So, it’s a metaphor for solving a problem, for overcoming an obstacle when and if it arrives, when and if it happens.

So, “we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it” will mean that we’ll worry about, quite literally, crossing that bridge, we’ll worry about going over that bridge, when we get to the bridge, when we arrive at the bridge.

But figuratively, if we use this as a metaphor, it means that we will solve that problem, we will overcome that obstacle, whatever the obstacle or whatever the problem is, when we get to it, when we arrive at it, when we come to it.

So, to cross the bridge when we come to it is to solve a problem when it happens.

As usual, let’s talk about some examples of how we would use this expression in everyday life guys.

Examples:

1.

So, imagine, number one, that you are going on a road trip. You’re going on a road trip around Australia.

So, maybe you’re driving from Perth all the way east to Victoria, to Melbourne, where I live.

And then, you’re going to drive all the way north up the east coast of Australia to Cairns.

And that’s thousands and thousands of kilometres.

I think it be about 12,000 kilometres to do those two legs of that trip.

To drive from Perth to Melbourne. The first leg.

And then, to drive the second leg from Melbourne to Cairns.

So, it’s a huge road trip that you’ve got planned, and you have an old car.

So, the car’s a bit of a bomb. You’re worried the car’s going to break down.

It’s going to stop functioning. So, that something in the engine is going to go wrong.

Maybe something will break. A cable will break. Maybe the radiator will blow.

Something’s going to happen and the car’s going to break down. This is what you’re worried about.

If you say to someone, “What happens if the car breaks down?”, the other person could say to you “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.”

And they’re saying that meaning, “We will worry about that problem when it happens. We’ll worry about overcoming that obstacle, the obstacle of the car breaking down, if it happens, when it happens. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.”

2.

Number two. Imagine you’re planning a surprise birthday for your mother, for your mum.

So, you want to plan this awesome epic surprise birthday with all your relatives, with all of her friends, with all of the gifts.

You’re going to cook up a barbie.

You’re going to have a whole bunch of food. It’s going to be an amazing party.

But your mother hates surprises. She absolutely hates surprises.

So if someone said to you, “Oh man! What happens when she gets here and she freaks out, she gets angry because it’s a surprise and you know your mother hates surprises?”

You could say, “Well, if she gets angry about it we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. You can cross that bridge when you come to it. I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. We’ll worry about this problem, we’ll worry about the obstacle that is mum getting angry about this surprise birthday party, when and if it happens. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.“

3.

So, the last example, example number three, is that you are worried about an upcoming exam for an incredibly difficult subject that you are studying at university.

So, I imagine that you’re studying something like, at least for me, maths.

I was awful at maths as a kid, and I was awful at university, and I still am awful at maths.

Imagine that you’re studying for an exam that you need to pass in order to continue studying, and you’re incredibly worried that you’re going to fail it.

Maybe you say to someone, “Oh, I’ve got to study for this exam. I have to go and complete it. I have to get at least this score. I’m really worried that if I don’t I’m going to get thrown out of university.”

Someone could say to you, “Look, just do your best. You’ve still got several weeks to study. Do your best. See how you go, and if things go badly we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. We will cross that bridge when we come to it. We’ll worry about that obstacle or that problem when and if it happens. You can cross that bridge when you come to it.”

So, as usual guys, let’s go in, let’s dive in, let’s do a listen and repeat exercise where you guys can practice your pronunciation.

So, listen and repeat after me, guys, and try to sound exactly like I do as a native English speaker.

Let’s go.

Listen and repeat:

To cross.
To cross.

That bridge.
That bridge.

To cross that bridge.
To cross that bridge.

To cross that bridge when you come to it.
To cross that bridge when you come to it.

I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
You’ll cross that bridge when you come to it.
He’ll cross that bridge when he comes to it.
She’ll cross that bridge when she comes to it.
We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
They’ll cross that bridge when they come to it.
It will cross that bridge when it comes to it.

Good job, guys. Good job.

So, now as usual, let’s have a little quick chat about pronunciation and connected speech, guys, and how it relates to the expression “To cross that bridge when you come to it”.

In this one, I want you to notice that when we say “To_w_it”, “To_w_it”, “To_w_it” we join the two vowels that “-o” and the “i-“, “To_w_it”, with a W-sound.

So, this happens all the time in English.

And this, again, is not just Australian English. This is all forms of English.

When we have two vowels either side of one another, one at the end of a word, for instance “to”, and the other at the start of a word, in this case “it”, we link them.

And we’ll link them with either a “Weh” sound, a W sound, “Weh”, or a “Yeh” sound, a Y sound, a “Yeh”.

So, in this case, it’s a W. It’s a W sound. “To_w_it”.

So, listen and repeat after me, guys. I’m going to say “To_w_it” five times.

Practice your pronunciation, and then we’ll go through the listen and repeat exercise one more time so that you can practice this pronunciation and connected speech tip.

Let’s go.

Listen and repeat:

To_w_it.
To_w_it.
To_w_it.
To_w_it.
To_w_it.

I’ll cross that bridge when I come to_w_it.
You’ll cross that bridge when you come to_w_it.
He’ll cross that bridge when he comes to_w_it.
She’ll cross that bridge when she comes to_w_it.
We’ll cross that bridge when we come to_w_it.
They’ll cross that bridge when they come to_w_it.
It’ll cross that bridge when it comes to_w_it.

Great job guys. Great job.

Remember, that as usual, as I always go over at the end here, if you want to sign up to be a member go over to www.TheAussieEnglishPodcast.com, and click on Learn English Faster.

You can sign up and become an Aussie English supporter straight away, you can become a member, and you can get access to all the bonus content for this episode, as well as all the previous expression episodes.

So, the bonus content includes MP3s, a more thorough PDF of the transcript, and you get access to all of these exercises that are designed to teach you to speak English and to understand English just like a native speaker.

So, we go through substitution and phrasal verb exercises, we go through pronunciation in connected speech exercises, grammar exercises, slang exercises, listening comprehension exercises, everything that you need to take your English to the next level faster.

Aside from that, guys, if you want to support Aussie English you can become a patron on the Aussie English Patreon page.

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You can choose the amount that you wish to donate. It happens on a monthly basis.

So, you can donate anything from one dollar each month in order to support me creating this content for you guys.

So, you can donate one dollar. You can donate more than a dollar if you choose.

It’s totally up to you guys.

But it is a way for you to support me directly and to be a deeper part of the Aussie English community.

So, thank you to all the current patrons on there.

It means the world to me that you guys are supporting me (to) create this content to help everyone learn Australian English.

Anyway, guys I hope you have a great week. Keep practicing your English.

Keep practicing speaking, reading, listening, and writing.

Keep at it, and I’ll chat to you soon.

See ya guys!


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    AE 515: 13 x Hand Expressions + TEST

    By pete — 2 months ago

    Learn Australian English in this episode of The Aussie English Podcast where I teach you 13 HAND EXPRESSIONS in English and give you a test at the end too.

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    AE 515: 13 x Hand Expression + English Test

    G’day, guys! What’s going on? I am Pete, the host of Aussie English and today I want to teach you a whole bunch of expressions to do with the hand. Let’s go!

    Alright, so, number one, guys: is to live hand-to-mouth. To live hand-to-mouth. This means to live with the bare minimum of food of money of whatever resource it may be and to have none left over afterwards, to have none spare. For example: While studying at university I really lived hand-to-mouth. I’m still living hand-to-mouth even with this new promotion.

    Number two: to be caught red-handed right? The idea there being you have blood on your hands because you have been caught in the act of doing something wrong or committing a crime. So, for example, the examiner caught the student cheating red-handed on the exam. I caught my son red-handed taking a cookie out of the cookie jar.

    Number three: Second hand. Second hand. If you get something second hand, you’re getting it and it’s not new. It’s not brand new, it’s second hand, someone else has owned that before you so, for example, I’m going to buy a second-hand car. Did you get that jumper second hand from the op shop?

    Number four: to give someone a hand, to give someone a hand, this means to assist someone with something they’re doing. Could you give me a hand with this heavy couch? I can’t really lift it on my own. I’m gonna give James a hand with his car on the weekend. We’re gonna repair it.

    Number five: to be good with your hands. To be good with your hands. That one tends to be pretty obvious, but it’s usually used to mean that you are skilful with your hands when making something or when repairing something. Dave works as a plumber and has always been good with his hands. If you’re good with your hands, can you help me fix my broken camera?

    Number six: at hand. To be at hand. I guess that’s you can reach that thing if it’s at hand, right? So, it is to be close by or to be readily accessible, you can get to it. So, for example, I’ll ring up the police and see if they have an officer at hand to investigate this crime. Do you have your mobile phone at hand?

    Number seven: to wash your hands of something. To wash your hands of something. This means that you refuse to have anything more to do with something and it can be someone as well.  After our fight, I washed my hands of Peter and I want nothing more to do with him. She washed her hands of cigarettes years ago, hasn’t touched a smoke since.

    Number eight: to have your hands tied. To have your hands tied. If you have your hands tied, it is that you are unable to act freely and you have to follow the rules or abide by the law. The cop pulled me over and wanted to let me go, but his hands were tired and he had to give me the fine. The judge says her hands are tied and the law requires a harsh sentence.

    Number nine: to know something like the back of your hand. If you know something like the back of your hand or more specifically if you know a place like the back of your hand, it is that you know that thing incredibly well, right? You would imagine you know the back of your hand pretty, well better than anyone else. I’ve lived in Melbourne my whole life and I know the place like the back of my hand. She knows this neighbourhood like the back of her hand.

    Number ten: hands down! Hands down. This means easily and decisively, right? So, will usually use this when talking about the most extreme something, the best thing, the worst thing, right? For example: this restaurant is hands down the worst restaurant I’ve ever eaten at. The Matrix is hands-down the best film we’ve ever seen.

    Number eleven: to take matters into your own hands. To take matters into your own hands. This means to deal with a problem yourself because the person who was meant to be dealing with it was unable to do so. After the police gave up the investigation, we decided to take matters into our own hands. I might have to take matters into my own hands. If you don’t deal with your misbehaving son.

    Number 12: on one hand… on the other hand… So, we use on one hand or on the one hand to introduce a statement that we’re then going to compare to an opposite statement usually or a contrasting statement on the other hand. For example:

    on one hand, I want to go to the party tonight, but on the other hand I have to study. On one hand, she wants to go to the gym and get fit, on the other hand, she’s too busy with work.

    The very last one, guys, the very last one, number thirteen is: first-hand, and you can also hear this as second-hand and third-hand, fourth-hand etc. So, when we use first hand this usually means directly it’s happened to you directly. So, you’ll hear something first hand, you will learn something first hand, you will see something first hand and that means that you personally did that thing. If it’s second hand, it’s that you did so through someone else. If someone tells you a rumour about someone else, you’ve heard that rumour second hand or you’ve heard that information second hand through someone else and not the direct source, ok? So, examples: when the dog growled at the girl, she learned first-hand not to pull its tail. I heard second hand that Bill’s going to divorce his wife. So, there you go guys. There you go!

    Those are 13 expressions that you can use that are related to the body part the hand. They’re very common, they’re very useful! So, learn those and if you have a video that you would like me to do in the future on expressions like this surrounding a theme, make sure to comment below and let me know which you would like me to do. And also, don’t forget to hit that like button and subscribe to see more videos like this. Thanks for joining me, guys. See you soon!

    Let’s review with the test. I’ll show you the question followed by the answer if you need more time pause the video. Good job guys, well done! I hope you scored well, and I’ll see you next time.

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    Let’s review with a test!

    I’ll show you the question followed by the answer. If you need more time, pause the video.

     

    1. If you’re comparing two contrasting things you use the expression _______.

     

    1. On the one hand, on the other hand
    2. Hands are tied

     

    If you’re comparing two contrasting things you use the expression on the one hand, on the other hand.

     

    1. If you only make enough money for the bare necessities in life, you __________.

     

    1. Live hand to mouth
    2. Give someone a hand

     

    If you only make enough money for the bare necessities in life, you live hand to mouth.

     

    1. If you decide to deal with a problem because the person who should have dealt with it has failed to, you have _______.

     

    1. Taken matters into your own hands
    2. Your hands tied

     

    If you decide to deal with a problem because the person who should have dealt with it has failed to, you have taken matters into your own hands.

     

    1. If something is easily and decisively the best, it’s ______ the best.

     

    1. Hands down
    2. At hand

     

    If something is easily and decisively the best, it’s hands down the best.

     

    1. If you know a location incredibly well, you ______.

     

    1. Know it like the back of your hand
    2. Take matters into your own hands

     

    If you know a location incredibly well, you know it like the back of your hand.

     

    1. If you catch someone in the middle of committing a crime you _________.

     

    1. Wash your hands of them
    2. Caught them red-handed

     

    If you catch someone in the middle of committing a crime you caught them red-handed.

     

    1. If someone or something you need is readily accessible, it’s _______.

     

    1. At hand
    2. Second-hand

     

    If someone or something you need is readily accessible, it’s at hand.

     

    1. If you are amazing at repairing or making things, you are ________.

     

    1. At hand
    2. Good with your hands

     

    If you are amazing at repairing or making things, you are good with your hands.

     

    1. If you learn information directly from the source, you’ve learnt it _______.

     

    1. Hands down
    2. First-hand

     

    If you learn information directly from the source, you’ve learnt it first-hand.

     

    1. If you assist someone with something, you ________.

     

    1. Give them a hand
    2. Are good with your hands

     

    If you assist someone with something, you give them a hand.

     

    1. If you have to follow the law even if you don’t want to, your ________.

     

    1. Hands down
    2. Hands are tied

     

    If you have to follow the law even if you don’t want to, your hands are tied.

     

    1. If you buy something that isn’t brand new, you’ve bought it _______.

     

    1. First-hand
    2. Second-hand

     

    If you buy something that isn’t brand new, you’ve bought it second-hand.

     

    1. If you no longer want anything to do with someone, you’ve ______.

     

    1. Washed your hands of them
    2. Caught them red handed

     

    If you no longer want anything to do with someone, you’ve washed your hands of them.

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    Good job, guys! Well done! I hope you scored well and I’ll see you next time!


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