Learn the English Phrases "That's cold!" and "to stop cold"

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THAT'S COLD! and TO STOP COLD

In this English lesson, I wanted to teach you the English phrase that's cold. This is a phrase we use to describe when someone does something that's kind of mean, something that's not very nice. Here's a good example. Let's say your cousin is dating someone and he decides to break up with your cousin. So he sends her a text message saying, I don't want to go out with you anymore. We would say, oh, that's cold. Because when you dump someone, when you end a relationship with a text message, it's very impersonal. It's not very kind or nice. It would probably be nicer to say to the person in person, hey, I don't think it's working out. So when you dump someone, when you end a relationship with a text message, this is a great way to describe it. That's cold. That's not a very nice way to do it, although I hear that's the common way to break up with people now for younger people.

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But anyways, the other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to stop cold. If I was doing the lesson and all of a sudden I stopped like that, I would describe that as stopping cold. Maybe I heard something, maybe the dog barked, but I stopped cold. When you stop cold, it means you stop what you're doing very quickly. When I'm walking outside at night, sometimes if I hear a scary sound, I might stop cold because I'm not sure if it's someone stealing something from the barn or something other weird... or some other weird thing that's happening out here.

So to review, when you describe something by saying, that's cold, you're describing an action by someone that's kind of mean and not very nice. And when you stop cold, it means that you stop what you're doing very suddenly in order to listen or look around or do something else.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from, I think, Tara. Yes. In Russian, it's to move like a turtle, referring to yesterday's lesson or the previous lesson, what have you done with the snow? It vanished. Here in Ukraine, everything is covered with snow and it's minus twelve. Well, it's exactly the same weather at my place right now, Tara. It is minus twelve out here and everything's covered with snow. My response is, it's back again today.

So, yes, the snow has kind of come and gone a few times here. And one of the things that I find interesting is I had to find my sunglasses yesterday because even though if you look up in the sky, the sun is not very, very bright. Oh, it's over there. But because of the snow, it's very hard to see. Like if I take my glasses off, I have to squint in order to see the camera. So I dug out my sunglasses. They were in the van, buried under all kinds of junk. By the way, I don't keep my vehicles very tidy on the inside. I've never shown that on camera, but definitely a messy person when it comes to vehicles. So I dug around, I found my sunglasses, and now we're all set.

I know I show you geese a lot, but this is kind of fun. The river has frozen a little bit. I'm not sure how many geese are down there, but it is a lot. So they're standing on the frozen part of the river, but they're also swimming in the non frozen part of the river. Sorry, I stopped cold there for a second because the camera wasn't turning around. So, yeah, our yearly winter visitors, the geese, they don't seem to mind the cold at all. They're definitely similar to me. I'm out here, it's minus twelve. I don't even have a winter hat on. And I'm not cold at all. In fact, on my walk this morning, I had too many layers on,

Transcript

In this English lesson, I wanted to teach you the English phrase that's cold. This is a phrase we use to describe when someone does something that's kind of mean, something that's not very nice. Here's a good example. Let's say your cousin is dating someone and he decides to break up with your cousin. So he sends her a text message saying, I don't want to go out with you anymore. We would say, oh, that's cold. Because when you dump someone, when you end a relationship with a text message, it's very impersonal. It's not very kind or nice. It would probably be nicer to say to the person in person, hey, I don't think it's working out. So when you dump someone, when you end a relationship with a text message, this is a great way to describe it. That's cold. That's not a very nice way to do it, although I hear that's the common way to break up with people now for younger people.

But anyways, the other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to stop cold. If I was doing the lesson and all of a sudden I stopped like that, I would describe that as stopping cold. Maybe I heard something, maybe the dog barked, but I stopped cold. When you stop cold, it means you stop what you're doing very quickly. When I'm walking outside at night, sometimes if I hear a scary sound, I might stop cold because I'm not sure if it's someone stealing something from the barn or something other weird... or some other weird thing that's happening out here.

So to review, when you describe something by saying, that's cold, you're describing an action by someone that's kind of mean and not very nice. And when you stop cold, it means that you stop what you're doing very suddenly in order to listen or look around or do something else.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from, I think, Tara. Yes. In Russian, it's to move like a turtle, referring to yesterday's lesson or the previous lesson, what have you done with the snow? It vanished. Here in Ukraine, everything is covered with snow and it's minus twelve. Well, it's exactly the same weather at my place right now, Tara. It is minus twelve out here and everything's covered with snow. My response is, it's back again today.

So, yes, the snow has kind of come and gone a few times here. And one of the things that I find interesting is I had to find my sunglasses yesterday because even though if you look up in the sky, the sun is not very, very bright. Oh, it's over there. But because of the snow, it's very hard to see. Like if I take my glasses off, I have to squint in order to see the camera. So I dug out my sunglasses. They were in the van, buried under all kinds of junk. By the way, I don't keep my vehicles very tidy on the inside. I've never shown that on camera, but definitely a messy person when it comes to vehicles. So I dug around, I found my sunglasses, and now we're all set.

I know I show you geese a lot, but this is kind of fun. The river has frozen a little bit. I'm not sure how many geese are down there, but it is a lot. So they're standing on the frozen part of the river, but they're also swimming in the non frozen part of the river. Sorry, I stopped cold there for a second because the camera wasn't turning around. So, yeah, our yearly winter visitors, the geese, they don't seem to mind the cold at all. They're definitely similar to me. I'm out here, it's minus twelve. I don't even have a winter hat on. And I'm not cold at all. In fact, on my walk this morning, I had too many layers on, so I had to take my toque off so I didn't get too warm. That's actually dangerous in cold weather, by the way. You don't want to get too warm in cold weather. You don't want to start sweating because that's kind of dangerous.

Anyways, thanks for watching. I'll see you in a couple of days with another short English lesson. Bye.