AE 1408 - Expression: Keep Your Chin Up

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

You ever have one of those days where nothing really goes wrong? But nothing goes right either. You wake up late. You spill a little bit of coffee on your shirt. Maybe the bus pulls away just as you reach the stop. By lunchtime, you're not angry, you're just deflated. Your shoulders slump. Your head drops. You start wondering if today's just a ride-off. And then someone notices a mate, a colleague, maybe even a stranger. They see the look on your face, that slightly defeated that's not my day look. They give you a little smile and say something short and encouraging. Not because your problems are magically solved, but because sometimes the best thing you can do is straighten up, take a breath, and keep moving forward. In Aussie English, we've got a great little expression for exactly this moment. And today, you're gonna learn it. Let's go. G'day you mob. Welcome to Aussie English. I'm your host Pete, and my objective here is to teach you guys the English spoken down under. So whether you want to sound like a fair income Aussie, or you just want to understand what the flippin' L we're on about when we're having a yum, you've come to the right place. So sit back, grab a cuppa, and enjoy Aussie English. Let's go. Alright, g'day guys. My name is Pete Smithson. I am your host, and this is the Aussie English Podcast, the number one place for anyone and everyone wanting to learn Australian English. Now, I hope you guys are going well. What have I been up to today? I dropped the kids off at school, dropped my wife at work, came home, got straight into a few private lessons with my students, working on speaking confidence, fluency, and Aussie accents. That's my favourite part of it, I think. It's the well, helping helping build confidence, but also I love nerding out. I love talking about Australian pronunciation and accents, so we were having fun with that. Besides that, I've been sort of keeping the cats at bay in the house. They've been going a bit crazy this morning, running around like chooks with their heads chopped off, you know, going crazy. Um guess we call it sort of zoomies, right? They're just running around the house going nuts, fighting, playing. But yeah, I don't know. There's something about just having pets, having animals at home that kind of do their own thing and interact around you. You know, they got their own personalities, they're kind of cheeky, funny, sometimes quite annoying. Especially you peaches. I'm looking at one of my cats. You're really annoying. Alright, anyway, yeah, so that's what I've been up to. Today you're gonna learn the expression to keep your chin up. Keep your chin up. I wonder if you've heard this one before. As usual, guys, don't forget there is a free PDF download where you will get the expression written out, definitions, the examples, you'll get the pronunciation exercise in there as well. So it's a nice little sort of cheat sheet for today's episode. Download it via the link in the description, or when you go to the website, oussieenguish.com.au, you will find this episode and the link will be there, you know, download PDF. So you can download that for free. And besides that, if you want to support Aussie English whilst also leveling up your Australian English, please check out the premium podcast membership at oussieenguish.com.au forward slash podcast. Again, the link will be in the description, or you can find it on the website. When you're a premium member, you get access to all fourteen hundred plus episodes, all the members only episodes as well. Each episode has a transcript for you to be able to download and read everything that's being said, except for the Pete's Two Sense episodes. There's about a few dozen of those that don't have them. The whole point of them was to make it audio only, but yeah, well over 1,300 other episodes have transcripts. You'll get the premium podcast player as well, so you can listen and read at the same time, and you'll get that nice little warm feeling of helping Ozzy English keep the lights on at home, helping me feed my kids, paying the bills, and um paying my wife's gym membership. Pretty much. Anyway, anyway, jokes aside. Check out the premium podcast membership at OzzyEnglish.com.au forward slash podcast. Okay, that's OzzyEnglish.com.au forward slash podcast. And I said jokes aside, but to be honest, we're gonna have to get into a joke right now for today, okay? So slap the bird, guys, get the cookaburra laughing, and let's get into today's joke. Alright, so trying to connect today's joke to the expression keep your chin up, to keep your chin up. I was trying, I was thinking, um, chin jokes? What can I find about chins? God, there's gotta be a joke about a chin, right? Okay, so here's what I here's what I found, here's what I found. Don't judge me, don't hate me, but hopefully it gives you a bit of a giggle. Why did the chin get promoted at work? Hmm. Why did the chin get promoted at work? Because it always stuck its neck out for the team. You get it? Why did the chin get promoted at work? Because it always stuck its neck out for the team. Okay, so I guess the pun here is, you know, you've got chin and neck, they're two things close together on the body. But the expression to stick your neck out for someone or for something is to take a risk for something or someone, to defend someone, to support others, even if it could cause problems for you, right? It's like you're endangering your neck. If you endanger your neck, you're pretty vulnerable, right, to injury. So, why did the chin get promoted at work? Because it always stuck its neck out for the team. That was good, wasn't it? It was good for a bit of a giggle anyway. Alright, let's go through the words and the expression to keep your chin up. Keep your chin up, mate. Keep your chin up. So keep. This is a verb. To continue doing something, to maintain something. Keep smiling no matter what. Keep digging, guys. We gotta finish this hole, you know, we're gonna finish digging this hole. Keep digging. Your this is a possessive pronoun, right? It belongs to you. This is your book. This is your cat. Is that your dog? Your a chin. A chin is a noun. This is part of the face below the mouth, right? It's the sort of pointy part of your jaw, your chin. He scratched his chin while thinking. Hmm and lastly, up here it is a preposition, I guess sort of an adverb, right? You're adding it to a verb to keep something up. And here it means maintain something in a higher position or level. Look up at the sky. Reach up to the top shelf and grab that book. Up. So the expression to keep your chin up, like literally, this would be lift your chin up, as in hold your head up, right? To keep your head up, to keep your head high. And if you do that, it's usually because you are cheerful, hopeful, positive, you know, in a good mood. You will lift your head up. When you're not in a good mood, you leave your head sort of drooping down, right? Your head drops, you look depressed, you know, you sort of feel a bit more introverted. And so we use the expression keep your chin up to mean stay positive, stay cheerful, stay hopeful. Everything will be alright. You know, things are difficult at the moment, but keep your chin up. Everything is gonna be okay. You know, don't worry about the discomfort at the moment. I'm gonna try and comfort you, I'm gonna try and encourage you, things will be okay, don't feel down, keep your chin up, okay? Keep your chin up, stay positive. So, as usual, guys, let's go through some example situations, some scenarios of how I would use the expression to keep your chin up in everyday English, okay? Example number one. Imagine someone having one of those days where nothing is going right, you know, uh sort of like the the start of this episode, right? You cross the road and a car drives past and splashes you with a puddle. Maybe a bird poops on your shoulder. You know, you're walking around and suddenly you're just like, what the hell was that? And it's a bird poop on your shoulder. You end up pretty uh sort of depressed, upset, tired by the end of the day at work. And as in that example at the start, maybe someone says it to you, or maybe you see your reflection in the mirror or something, and you just think, you know what? No, I'm gonna keep my chin up. Keep your chin up, mate. Things will be okay. Let's stay positive. Keep your chin up, mate. Example number two. Imagine a student walking out of an exam room already knowing it didn't go well. You know, they studied hard, they really tried, they put in as much effort as they could, but the questions just didn't land. They didn't do that well in the exam. Later, they're sitting with a friend replaying every mistake in their head, you know, and just feeling a bit depressed. The friend listens for a moment and then says, you know what, keep your chin up. One exam doesn't define you. You know, nothing changes instantly, the results still hurt, but hearing that reminder helps you lift your head up to feel more positive, to feel comforted, to feel encouraged, and you remember that setbacks are a part of learning and it's not the end of the road. Example number three. Imagine someone who's just come out of a long relationship. Everything feels unfamiliar. Weekends are quiet, their routines are gone, confidence is shaken. They meet a friend for coffee, mostly to talk things out. There's no advice, no fixing, just listening. As they're leaving, the friend gives them a small smile and just says, Hey, keep your chin up. It's not meant to rush the healing. It's just a reminder that this moment won't last forever. Things are gonna be okay. Stay positive. And lastly, a little extra example today. Example number four, picture someone finding out they didn't get the promotion that they'd hoped for. You know, they did the extra work, they showed up, they really thought this time it might happen. Their manager calls them in and explains the decision, but calmly and honestly, you know, ah, sorry mate, you didn't get you didn't get the promotion this time. Before you leave, the manager might say to you, look, I know it's disappointing, but keep your chin up, more opportunities will come by in the future. It doesn't erase the frustration, you're still annoyed, you know, you're still a bit depressed, but it helps you walk out standing a little straighter, feeling a little more positive, and that you are going to keep going without giving up. So hopefully now, guys, you understand the expression and how to use it. Keep your chin up. Keep your chin up. It doesn't mean be happy, it just means don't give up on yourself. Stay positive. You know, you're having a hard day, but you can do this. Be encouraged, stay positive, keep your chin up.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

Would you like a cardinal, Corie?

SPEAKER_00 11:29

Cardinal, the correct pronunciation is Chardonnay.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

It's French, the H is silent. Back me up here, Corie.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

So now let's go through a little speaking exercise, guys, where you can work on your Australian pronunciation if that's something you desire. Listen and repeat after me. Try and pronounce it exactly as I do. Otherwise, if you're working on a different accent, that's cool too. Just use the sentences as a prompt to practice that accent instead. Okay? Okay, so we're gonna conjugate through the sentence, I told him to keep his chin up. And before we get into it, I want you to listen out for what happens to the H's at the start of the words him and his. Okay? Alright, listen and repeat after me.

SPEAKER_01 12:13

I told him to keep his chin up. You told him to keep his chin up. It told him to keep his chin up. Good job.

SPEAKER_00 13:08

So there's two things that I want to mention today regarding pronunciation. And I wonder if you notice one of them. The first one that I tried to point out earlier was H deletion. So you will notice that the H's at the start of the word him and the word his disappear. So instead you'll hear im and is. So all of those French speakers listening, you guys are gonna be like, happy days, we we don't have to pronounce the H after all, right? That was a big thing when I was learning French. So many French people speaking English would always be dropping these H's because you do that in French. Alright, so anyway, if I say the phrase, I told him to keep his chin up, if I say this naturally, I drop these H's. So what you hear is I told him to keep his chin up. You know, and I'm linking there. Can you hear the linking? Told him keep his. Told him to keep his. I told him to keep his chin up. I told him to keep his chin up. So we're gonna link because once you remove those H's, the words him and his, when the H's are gone, they start with a vowel sound. Im is. Okay? Told him to keep is. You'll notice the D at the end of the word told will become a T flap, told him, or a D flap, told him. And the second thing that I was wanting to point out, though I guess it's third because I've just pointed out the T D flap. The third thing, I guess, is that the L in the word told becomes a dark L because it is followed by a consonant sound. So you will hear told him. You won't hear told him with a a light L sound, I guess. Where the L is a proper L sound, l you'll actually hear it more like oo, okay? I told him. I told him. I told him. I told him to keep his chin up. I told him to keep his chin up. So hopefully you learn a lot about linking, connected speech, and pronunciation there in this exercise today. Remember, guys, if you want to learn more about Australian pronunciation, go and check out my Australian pronunciation course. Go to ozzieenglish.com.au forward slash APC100. The link will be in the description. When you use that link, you'll save a hundred bucks. Inside the course, you will learn how to use the International Phonetic Alphabet, those weird symbols that you often see next to words in dictionaries. By learning how that works, you'll be able to look certain words up or phrases up and then understand the sounds that are actually being made. And it's it's useful because English is not phonetic. It's quite annoying that the sounds actually change quite a bit. In the second section, I go through all the different vowel sounds in English and all the different consonant sounds and in detail show you how to make these sounds with your mouth, how to practice doing them. I give you loads of exercises and tips and tricks for being able to say these sounds clearly so that you sound more natural when speaking English. And in the third section, we focus more on things like connected speech and the more advanced areas of pronunciation, like the dark L versus the light L, the T flap, the Australian R. When do we say R's and when don't we say Rs? The schwa sound, everything like that. So if you want to level up your pronunciation, speak with confidence and sound more Australian, go and check out my Australian pronunciation course. Just go to Ozzyenglish.com.au forward slash APC100. The link will be in the description, but one more time, Ozzyenglish.com.au forward slash APC100. Probably need to come up with a better URL, to be honest. I'm wondering how many of you guys are actually going to remember that and write it down, you know, or or go to the computer later and be able to type it in. Anyway, anyway, rabbiting on here. Okay, so now it's time for today's Aussie fact, and I thought we would tie this in a little bit by talking about a classic Australian expression that sort of goes along with keep your chin up, and that is she'll be right. So did you know that Aussies are known for their she'll be right attitude, which is closely related to this expression, right? She'll be right. It's a classic Australian saying meaning everything will be okay. She will be alright, it will be alright. Who knows why we use she, but that common expression is she'll be right. Don't worry too much. It reflects a cultural tendency to try and stay positive, not to stress too much, and trust that things are gonna work out. So whether it's a flat tire, a missed train, or a big life challenge, Aussies often shrug and say, ah, she'll be right, mate. It's the perfect cultural companion to keep your chin up. Both express optimism and resilience. So when you tell someone to keep their chin up in Australia, you're tapping into a pretty deep cultural value here, staying positive even when life throws you a curveball. Okay? So keep your chin up. She'll be right, mate. Everything is gonna be alright. So that's it for today, guys. Thank you for joining me. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Don't forget to grab the free PDF download. Link will be in the description. If you want to support the podcast, check out the premium podcast membership or that Australian pronunciation course as well. And besides that, share it with a mate, give it a review, and just send me a message and say g'day. If you enjoy these episodes, you can always reach out on Instagram or Facebook or by email and just say, G'day Pete, thanks for what you're doing, or you know, no thanks. Whatever you want, right? You can write what you want. But say g'day, tell me where you're from, and um, yeah, tell me what you're enjoying. 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