Take a Chance 모험하다 Keep Me on My Toes 긴장하게 하다. Screw up 망치다
Power Warm-up: Cooking for Dietary Restrictions: It Keeps You on Your Toes
Michelle tells Anton that it’s difficult to order food for delivery because the restaurant might put something in the food that her family is allergic to. But she says she has found a few good ones.
Kristen:
Level three, power English.
Cameron:
Welcome to the show everybody.
Kristen:
Hi, everyone. I’m Kristen Cho.
Cameron:
And I’m Cameron Word.
Kristen:
For joining us as always.
Cameron:
Yes, yes.
Kristen:
We’ve got a food dialogue for you today. Cooking for dietary restrictions. And we’ve learned that you have zero restrictions.
Cameron:
I ate everything.
Kristen:
You eat everything.
Cameron:
Yeah.
Kristen:
And anything. Anything? Is there anything that you don’t like to eat.
Cameron:
I mean, there are things I don’t like to eat. I’m not a fan of raw tomatoes.
Kristen:
Yes.
Cameron:
I love cooked tomatoes. But there’s an exception. I love like caprese salad. Like if you take the raw tomato,
Kristen:
Uh-huh.
Cameron:
It with like basil and mozzarella.
Kristen:
Uh-huh.
Cameron:
Totally fine. But like if you just have like a tomato and a salad. Not my favorite.
Kristen:
Okay.
Cameron:
Do you have any like weird things like that?
Kristen:
Okay, I will tell you, I cannot have like organ meats.
Cameron:
Ah, like 곱창
Kristen:
Yes, or like 간, or, you know, anything that is like a little bit, anything organ-related is hard for me.
Cameron:
But it’s organic.
Kristen:
It is. And it’s good for you too.
Cameron:
Yeah, and also a lot of iron and…
Expressions
Kristen:
I know. Not my thing. All right. So our topic, cooking for dietary restrictions. It keeps you on your toes. This happens to be one of our power expressions. To keep you on your toe. Are you like a ballerina, like you’re always on your toe?
Cameron:
Maybe you are. But no, this expression is about it keeps you alert. You can’t move your focus to something else. You have to focus. Pay attention and stay active with that thing.
Kristen:
Okay, very good. How about if you take a chance?
Cameron:
You are doing something maybe risky, something that will not 100% happen, but you are hoping to take a risk and get a big reward.
Kristen:
That’s right. You’re willing to do it and to see what happens. And our last expression is an informal expression, to screw up S-C-R-E-W. What is to screw up?
Cameron:
Yeah, so this is very casual. It means to make a mistake, but when you use the word screw up, it seems like a big mistake.
Kristen:
It does.
Cameron:
That’s a major mistake.
Kristen:
You could say like mess up, but if you screw up, it does feel a little bit more serious.
Cameron:
A little bigger, yeah. Yeah, okay.
Kristen:
Okay, let’s go ahead and listen to our food dialog.
Power Dialog
Michelle: One of the hardest things is ordering food for delivery. I can’t take a chance that a restaurant might use peanut oil for cooking for example.
Anton: I’m sure that keeps you on your toes.
Michelle: It’s the same with restaurants that claim to sell gluten-free options. If they make a mistake, my husband feels miserable for the next two days.
Anton: What can you do?
Michelle: Well, we know a few restaurants that have never screwed up, so we order from them.
Anton: It’s good to have reliable options.
Kristen:
Let’s take a look at our dialog on page 44. Michelle begins by saying, one of the hardest things is ordering food for delivery. I can’t take a chance that a restaurant might use peanut oil for cooking, for example. Okay. Our power pattern is one of the hardest things is. Okay. So one of the hardest thing. Right. Why is that a pattern?
Cameron:
So this is what you think it means. It maybe isn’t the hardest, but it’s one of them, right? But it’s a very common expression that is used to begin a complaint.
Kristen:
Good.
Cameron:
Right? Yeah. Like you’re trying to emphasize that it’s really hard and you don’t want to say, oh my gosh, this is the hardest. But you want to put it in that category of the top of like one of the most hardest. So the meaning itself is not anything, I guess, special or unexpected, but it is common enough that I think it’s good to be able to say it without even really thinking.
Kristen:
That’s interesting because you could say I hated when which is so direct.
Cameron:
Yeah.
Kristen:
It’s a very strong complaint. But it’s kind of like, well, yeah, this is inconvenient. One of the hardest things. It’s a nicer way of starting a complaint. And Michelle’s complaint is ordering food for delivery. She has an allergy. And so, she can’t take a chance.
Cameron:
Yes.
Kristen:
Okay. Take a chance, like you mentioned earlier, means that you’re willing to do something with a little bit of possible risk.
Cameron:
Yes.
Kristen:
But if you say, oh, I can’t take a chance on that, what are you really saying?
Cameron:
Saying you can’t risk it. So, with this allergy. it’s a very bad allergy. So unless she’s 100% certain that there is no any small amount of peanut in that recipe, she cannot even attempt. She doesn’t want to try because it could be you know a life-or-death situation.
Kristen:
Right. You don’t even want to try. I think that’s the key right there.
Cameron:
Don’t even take a chance.
Kristen:
Don’t even take a chance. Don’t even try. That’s basically what this is saying. Because they might use peanut oil.
Cameron:
Yeah.
Kristen:
So Anton says, I’m sure that keeps you on your toes. What is he really saying?
Cameron:
So if something keeps you on your toes, it means that you can’t relax. And there are a few different contexts and kind of shades of meaning here. But this one in particular means Michelle cannot relax when she’s ordering. She always has to be careful when she’s ordering food. So that’s why she is always on her toes.
Kristen:
So she has to be cautious. She has to be vigilant. It’s like always kind of aware of her surroundings to keep someone on their toes. Now, this is talking about food. How about other contexts?
Cameron:
So a child can keep you on your toes?
Kristen:
Yeah.
Cameron:
Like, you know when a child like two or three and they can walk and they can do a lot of dangerous things, but they don’t realize that, you know, climbing up a bookshelf is dangerous? That is probably, as a parent or if you are just looking after children, the time whenever the child keeps you on your toes the most. Because they’re always doing something. So you always have to be watching them. Okay.
Kristen:
Half a second, they’re already like touching something that they shouldn’t be. Or they’re like crawling and they’re already in the bathroom.
Cameron:
Yeah, they’re in the kitchen. They’re in the kitchen and they pulled out a knife. Where did you find this? Just all of these, as you know, children find these little dangerous things.
Kristen:
They are so good at that. Okay, so what does Michelle say?
Cameron:
It’s the same with restaurants that claim to sell gluten-free options. If they make a mistake, my husband feels miserable for the next two days.
Kristen:
Mm-hmm. Now this is really true because they say people who have a gluten allergy. This is serious and they say, oh yeah it’s gluten-free but then if you really look at the ingredients, there’s also there’s something gluten in the ingredients.
Cameron:
Oh, yeah. And, yeah, at a restaurant, especially, like, an American restaurant, which I worked at several, either, A, the waiter doesn’t know because some of the items, it has a ton of ingredients.
Kristen:
You don’t know.
Cameron:
Right. For example, I worked at a sushi place. The sushi is gluten-free.
Kristen:
But…
Cameron:
But, the soy sauce isn’t.
Kristen:
That’s right.
Cameron:
And you just can’t know.
Kristen:
How do you know? How can you suspect?
Cameron:
You have to look at every single bottle in the restaurant.
Kristen:
That’s it. So it’s very important that you check. And Anton says, what can you do? And Michelle says, well, we know a few restaurants that have never screwed up. So we order from them. So, I guess it’s kind of trial and error. You try and then. So they have never screwed up.
Cameron:
Yes.
Kristen:
Mm-hmm.
Cameron:
So screw up, like we talked about, is a mistake, but it’s often a bigger mistake, a more severe mistake. So here, if a restaurant screws up on a recipe for someone who has an allergy, obviously that’s a big deal. Because that person, you know, could have a bad reaction, need to go to the hospital or something worse.
Kristen:
Right.
Cameron:
So that would be a mistake that you could say is ‘Screw up.’
Kristen:
It sure is. And Anton says it’s good to have reliable options. So, there are some restaurants that are 100% okay.
Cameron:
Yes.
Kristen:
And he’s like, oh, it’s good to have these options, but reliable. And that is our power of vocabulary.
Cameron:
So here, reliable means something you can trust. So there are options that you can trust. You do not have to worry if they are safe to eat or not. You already know that they are.
Kristen:
Sure. And a person can be reliable as well.
Cameron:
Yeah, if they’re always able to help you if you have a problem, they’d be considered a reliable person.
Kristen:
I would have to say that you’re a very reliable partner.
Cameron:
Aww.
Kristen:
A co-host yeah.
Cameron:
You’re the only one that thinks that.
Kristen:
All right. Let’s go ahead and listen to that dialogue one more time.
Power Dialog
Michelle: One of the hardest things is ordering food for delivery. I can’t take a chance that a restaurant might use peanut oil for cooking for example.
Anton: I’m sure that keeps you on your toes.
Michelle: It’s the same with restaurants that claim to sell gluten-free options. If they make a mistake, my husband feels miserable for the next two days.
Anton: What can you do?
Michelle: Well, we know a few restaurants that have never screwed up, so we order from them.
Anton: It’s good to have reliable options.
Power Note
1. take a chance: 모험하다.
Kristen:
Please join us on pages 46 and 47. It’s time for Power Note. We’re going to do a quick review and give you some example sentences using the expressions that we just learned. If you take a chance, there is a chance, a possibility that there’s going to be a risk or a negative outcome, but you try it anyway. Okay.
1)
A: I’m taking a chance hiring your brother. He has no experience.
B: Don’t worry, he learns fast and works hard.
Kristen:
So when you’re hiring people, you think, oh, their education is a little bit lacking, but he seems like he would be a good hard worker. You are taking a little chance. You have no experience, not a lot of education. Kind of risky.
Cameron:
Right. Mm.
2) If you don’t take a chance sometimes, you’ll never have real success.
Cameron:
That’s true. I don’t know of a single person that you would see as successful that didn’t take a chance.
Kristen:
Sure.
Cameron:
Or risks. Like even just, like if you think about like the Olympics or like professional athletes, their life is taking a chance. Because they’re dedicating their whole life to a sport and they might still fail.
Kristen:
Of course.
Cameron:
So the people that do succeed in the end, they took a huge chance.
Kristen:
Don’t you think we took a chance by coming and living in Korea?
Cameron:
Oh, yeah. I mean, leaving your home country. Coming here to a country that doesn’t speak English, even though there are a lot of good English speakers.
Kristen:
Especially for you, yeah.
Cameron:
Not a native speaker. You took a chance on me.
Kristen:
I didn’t.
Cameron:
As far as, you know, getting a… on this show. You know?
Kristen:
I didn’t know if it would work out.
Cameron:
Thank goodness it did.
Kristen:
Actually, Cameron, I did. I knew we would work out. Okay.
2. keep someone on one’s toes: 긴장하게 하다.
Keep someone on one’s toes means to have them be alert, active, and focused. So you’re kind of like you can’t completely relax.
1)
A: It must be hard raising three kids under four years old.
B: They definitely keep me on my toes.
Kristen:
Yeah. Oh, yeah, children. We talked about children. Especially when they’re all under four. Oh, my dear. You can never relax if you have, like, a toddler and an infant.
Cameron:
They’re always, you know, getting something dirty or getting hurt or they’re hungry.
Kristen:
Or they’re sleepy.
Cameron:
Or they’re sleepy. Yeah.
2) The frequent visits by the CEO kept the factory workers on their toes.
You know how we feel when the boss comes? Or the present 사장님, or 회장님 comes? That day, you’re gonna be working hard.
Cameron:
Right. And if you never know when they’re gonna come, they could come at any time.
Kristen:
Oh yeah.
Cameron:
That would keep you on your toes.
Kristen:
Right. So that’s the thing. When you don’t know what’s going to happen, but there’s a chance that something’s going to happen, that’s when you are, you know, on your toes. Yeah. Because you have to be ready.
Cameron:
Yeah, you have to be ready to change or react to whatever the situation is.
Kristen:
Let’s give one more example of being on your toes or to keep someone on their toes.
Cameron:
Yeah, if you’re keeping someone on your toes, maybe there is some type of interview and you just, the person asking the questions just asks the weirdest question. You know how you have your regular interviews. So people who do interviews, they kind of get comfortable like, what is your greatest weakness? What would you do in a team environment? Yeah, why do you want to work?
Kristen:
Here.
Cameron:
Yeah. But if it’s some weird question like, suppose you were eating lunch right before a big meeting and you got spaghetti sauce all on the front of your shirt. What would you do? That’s so random. Like a question that you do not get in an interview often, that type of question would keep you on your toes because you have to be focused and think of a good answer on the spot.
Kristen:
So true. Absolutely. So, it is not a predictable interview. It is unpredictable. You don’t know what’s going to, you know, what’s going to be asked. So you have to be on your toes.
Cameron:
Yeah, it’s like, you know that mole game at video game arcades? The mole pops out of the hole?
Kristen:
Whack-a-mole. Whack-a-mole.
Cameron:
And you never know where it’s going to come out. It’s kind of that feeling. You just have to be ready to hit that mole whenever.
Kristen:
That’s right. So the pattern here is something A keeps you on your toes, or you could also say like, it keeps me on my toes. Okay. All right.
3. screw up: 망치다
If you screw up, it means you make a pretty big mistake.
1)
A: I know I screwed up, but I deserve a second chance.
B: Screwed up? You set the store on fire!
Kristen:
But it wasn’t my fault. I promise.
Cameron:
Oh, goodness.
Kristen:
That’s a big one.
Cameron:
This is a good example of screw up. We talked how it’s like a big mistake, right? But if you look at it from an even bigger scale, it’s like a medium mistake. So a mistake is smaller. Screw up is in the middle. And then setting the store on fire is like a catastrophe.
Kristen:
It is a catastrophe.
Cameron:
So, I guess there is a limit both on the lower end and the upper end of what would be considered a screw-up.
Kristen:
And that’s why he’s like screwed up. He’s like, no, no, no, that’s not a middle mistake.
Cameron:
Yeah. Much more than screwed up. Yeah.
Kristen:
2) Mike screwed up and gave the customer back too much money.
That’s a mistake, big mistake.
4. One of the hardest things: 가장 힘든 일 중 하나.
Power pattern, one of the hardest things. When you hear this, you know that some sort of complaint is coming.
1) One of the hardest things I ever had to do was fire my sister from her job.
Cameron:
Oh gosh. Can you imagine?
Kristen:
These are real hard things.
2) One of the hardest things to do is to give away your dog.
I cannot imagine. But it happens, you know, depending on the situation. Yeah.
5. Reliable: 믿을 수 있는
Something that is reliable provides the same results consistently. For example, a reliable car will start every time and a reliable friend will always be there when you need them.
Kristen:
Both of these instances, it was very hard to do. Power vocab, reliable is our word. Do check out the definition on page 48. And make sure you stop by 오디오 어학당
Cameron:
Hot dog.
Kristen:
And what do you do there?
Cameron:
You pay a small monthly fee. Yes. And you listen to the shows that you and I are in. Yeah.
Kristen:
Again, it is.
Cameron:
Turn over.
Kristen:
Over and over.
Cameron:
At least three times a day.
Kristen:
Yeah, and please make sure to join us for our live show evening special tonight. Okay. Have a great day and we’ll see you soon.
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