In this English lesson
I wanted to help you learn
the English term, spoiled brat.
A spoiled brat is a child
who gets everything
they want all the time.
So you probably know families like this,
where the parents have lots of money
and whenever the child wants
something, they get it.
Maybe the child has a birthday coming up
and they want a really,
really expensive gift,
a gift that might cost
hundreds of dollars.
And if their parents buy them that gift,
and if their parents
regularly buy expensive things
for their child, you might
call that child a spoiled brat.
It usually also refers a
little bit to their behavior.
When a child is a spoiled brat,
they're used to always
getting what they want
and they get really
upset when they don't get
what they want in life.
So a spoiled brat is a child
who gets everything they want,
all the time from their parents.
The other phrase I
wanted to teach you today
is the phrase, rotten apple.
Technically a term, not a phrase,
but the term rotten
apple refers to someone
who's not a good person.
So you might have friends of your family,
maybe they have five children
and one of those kids
is not a good person.
They are regularly getting in trouble.
They get in trouble at school,
they get in trouble maybe with the law,
maybe they commit crimes,
but they also make other
people do bad things with them.
We would say that that
person is a rotten apple,
because a rotten apple tends
to make other apples rotten.
So if you know a person
who is a rotten apple,
they are a bad person, they do bad things,
but they also convince other people
to do bad things with them.
So anyways, a spoiled
brat is a rich, sorry,
is a child of rich people
who gets everything they want
all the time,
and a rotten apple is a
person who does bad things
and convinces other people
to do bad things with them.
Let's look at a comment
from previous video.
This comment is from Julia
Olis and Julia says,
"Hi, dear teacher, thank
you for these phrases.
In Russian, we have something like,
seven nannies can't look after a baby."
So this is from the
lesson on too many cooks
spoil the broth, that I did the other day,
and my response was, "That makes sense.
Too many people taking care of a child
might make the child grow
up to be a spoiled brat."
So you see what I did there?
I used today's phrase in
my reply to that comment.
Actually today's phrase came from my reply
to Julia's comment.
So thank you Julia for that comment.
Yes, sometimes if you
think about children,
if they have too many
people taking care of them
and they get too many things,
they can become spoiled.
They can become spoiled brats.
Not a good thing.
Let me tell you something, though.
When I was a kid, I
was not a spoiled brat.
You might see this farm and
think that this is really cool
and it's really big and it's awesome,
and Bob grew up on this beautiful farm,
but when I was a kid,
we lived on this farm,
but we didn't have a lot of money.
We had a lot of land.
My parents owed the bank a lot of money
and it was a good life, but
it was filled with hard work.
I did not get anything
given to me by my parents
very quickly or very easily.
I was not a spoiled brat in that sense.
If I wanted something for my birthday,
that was really expensive,
sometimes my parents would pay
for part of it and they would
make me work to earn money
to pay for the other part of it.
So let's say I wanted
a toy that cost $100,
when I was a kid, my parents might pay
for 20 or $30 of that toy,
but I had to find money
to pay for the rest of it,
so I definitely was not
raised in a rich family
and I was not a spoiled brat.
Anyways, thanks for watching
and listening to this English lesson.
Hope you're having a good day.
I'll see you tomorrow with another one.
