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Hello and welcome to my front yard.

I want you to know that the snow has fallen and it continues to fall here in Kanazawa, Japan. I’m going to look down OK because I’m going to step down into the… woooow. This is my yard. This is supposed to be grass. And then… like… well… like, that’s three feet of snow! I’m going to put this thing down here, see… because… you can see out there. Woooh. Can you see all the way down across the town? I just want you to see just how deep this snow is. I’m in my pajamas here.

And, if you watch for just a little while, you’ll see the snow falling on me. And, it won’t take very long at all for the snow to completely cover me up.

My butt’s getting cold now. My butt’s wet! OK. My butt’s really cold. Holy crap! I’m going to stand up now.

OK. Now, just in case you were wondering, that is how deep the snow is in my yard. So if you’re ever asking yourself, “How deep is your snow? How deep is your snow?” Then you can look around and you can see the reflection on my window and you can say to yourself, “This guy’s a maniac, maniac in the snow.”

I’m going to turn you off now.

とぼけたアニメや、エキサイティンぐ～な音楽、またゲームやパズルなどの頭を絞るオンラインアクティビティーで、本当の北米ネイティヴの発音

Real North-American native pronunciation through silly cartoons, loud music, games, puzzles and other mind-bending online activities.

A course by Stephan Franciosi and Wes Cunningham

今回は色を用いたいろいろな慣用句をあげてみます。

out of the blue
突然、いきなり

feel blue
落ち込む

have the blues
元気がない, 落ち込んでいる

in the black
黒字で

the black market
闇市場

in the red
赤字(帳簿に赤インクで損失額を記す事から)

red tape
お役所仕事(昔法律文書等が赤いリボンで結んであった事から)

red neck
無学な田舎者(外で肉体労働して首が日焼けして赤くなる事から)