Speaker A
All right. So, the first phrase is to scrape by, which is what we've been mentioning. So, to barely have enough money or resources to live. So, um, it sounds casual to scrape by, right?
Learn the meaning and usage of the phrase 'to scrape by,' focusing on intuition and financial struggles in everyday life.
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Key Takeaways
- 'To scrape by' means barely managing financially, often in stressful circumstances.
- The phrase is casual but reflects real-life struggles like working multiple jobs or living on a tight budget.
- 'When you know, you know' refers to intuition or a gut feeling about something being right or wrong.
- This intuition phrase usually carries an optimistic tone but can also indicate doubt or mismatch.
- Both phrases relate to common life experiences involving money, decisions, and feelings.
What the video covers
- The video explains the phrase 'to scrape by,' meaning to barely have enough money or resources to live.
- It highlights that 'scrape by' sounds casual but indicates stressful financial situations.
- Examples include living in New York with limited funds and managing on one salary.
- The phrase is commonly used by students and people working multiple jobs.
- The video also discusses the phrase 'when you know, you know' relating to intuition and gut feelings.
- It explains that this phrase often signals optimism and hope but can also indicate when something feels wrong.
- The key concept is trusting one’s intuition about what feels right or wrong.
- The discussion includes how these phrases apply to important life decisions and situations.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction to 'scrape by'
- 00:14Meaning and examples of 'scrape by'
- 00:27Financial challenges on one salary
- 00:39Working multiple jobs and scraping by
- 00:50Common situations using 'scrape by'
- 01:08Understanding 'when you know, you know'
- 01:22Optimism and intuition in the phrase
- 01:35Applying intuition to life decisions
Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown
Speaker A
The word sounds casual, but it signals these stressful circumstances. Oh, yeah. So, for example, when I first moved to New York, I was just scraping by, right? That's kind of both of us to some extent.
Speaker A
Or we're barely scraping by on one salary. So, yeah, with your partner, you might have to, you know, make some tough decisions about, you know, money.
Speaker A
Or during college, I was scraping by with two part-time jobs. A lot of people in this country work two or three jobs.
Speaker A
You know, that's just what they do, right? In order to, and they're still just scraping by.
Speaker A
Yeah. Right? Yeah. So, common situations when we'd use this phrase, yeah, being a student, certainly, you know, that when we know it's right, you know, it's right. Like you, it's a gut feeling. It's like our intuition that something is a fit.
Speaker A
Something is a match. Something feels right. Yeah. But actually thinking about it, you could also use it about, so when in something that feels wrong. I mean, when you know, you know, this is not. But it does, but I think typically it has
Speaker A
more of this optimistic, hopeful feeling, but yeah. Not always. So, you could use it in other ways. But yeah, it is about that intuition. I think that that is the key word, that gut feeling.
Speaker A
So, but what do we use it about? What are we talking about? All the good things in life. I mean, the big thing, the big kind, the big things in
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