10 Advanced English Collocations for Negative Feelings and Emotions [595]

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In this episode, you will learn advanced English collocations for negative feelings and emotions. These natural word combinations will help you describe how people feel in a more accurate and fluent way, without relying on basic words.

This lesson is especially useful for intermediate and advanced English learners who want to improve their English vocabulary, sound more natural when speaking, and understand the expressions native speakers use in real conversations.

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Hi there. This is Harry. Welcome back to Advanced English to help you to get a better language, to help you with your business, English skills, goals are, we're here to help. And for those of you and your to one lessons, well, you know Just get in touch www.englishlessonviaskype.com and you can apply for a free trial lesson. And we'll be very happy to hear from you and very happy to help you. So what are we going to talk to Well, in the advanced class advanced collocations for negative emotions and feelings. And like always, I think I've them to you in a list, and then and give you a few examples. Here they are. To feel down, to feel sick with worry or to say, I'm worried sick. You can use either way that it's So to feel sick with worry or I'm worried sick to give vent to something, to give vent to, something to weigh on your conscience or to weigh on your mind. A heavy heart, nasty shock. Dread to think. Bear a grudge or to bear a To dash somebody's hopes. And then finally to bottle up Okay, so all of those quite negative in their the way they express feelings. So let's go through them and give you some examples to feel down. Well, we can all feel down from And literally when we feel down or our lips drop at the edge, or chin drops or eyes droop so we feel down. We feel that we're lacking We feel depressed. We feel upset. All of those negative emotions. What are you feeling down about? Might be a way somebody might You are just feeling a little I don't feel myself. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the weather, or maybe year, whatever it might be. I just feel a little down. I think I'll go home, put my feet up and have a glass of wine. So to feel down, to feel sick with worry or to be worried sick. Well, usually when somebody is of stress or a lot of problems family member is sick. So they're worried sick is They've gone into hospital for a sure what the results of the daughter, she's worried sick the corner, they're going to And if she doesn't get the what we're going to do. So she's worried sick and I'm So we're all under a little bit of strain and all feeling the stress. Oh, I'm worried sick about the You know, he's never, ever sick and I have to take him to the vet. And the vet said he wasn't sure And we'll check it out in a and But he's no better. He's just lying around the house, I hope, I hope it's not bad news. Okay, so to be worried sick or sick with worry, something on your mind to give vent to something. Well, usually when we give vent to our anger or to give vent to that irritates us to. So to give vent to our anger, irritation or frustration would be good. Examples. When we give vent to something Okay, so perhaps you go and you you go out and you kick the bicycle to to vent your anger or You might be cycling along, enjoying the warm sun, summer sun, and you get a puncture in your bicycle and you hear that terrible sound as the air goes out of your tire and you realize that you don't have a pump with you. You don't have a puncture repair You have nothing. So you pick the bike up and you throw it on the ground to vent your anger. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then just by chance, who's got a spare tire or spare your bicycle for you. Okay. So to vent your anger, to vent your frustration, you're trying to work out that mathematical problem. And for some reason, you just can't get the last little bit of that equation. And you almost pull your hair You vent your frustration and your mother comes running up the stairs. But what's wrong? What's wrong? What are you screaming about? Ah! This mathematics. Ah, yeah. So to vent your frustration, to vent your irritation means to show it, to reflect it in some way by screaming, kicking, shouting, or whatever it might be. Okay, whatever you do, don't Don't kick the dog. Something weighs on your on your mind. So you might go to the doctor if says, what's up with you today? Well, I'm not feeling good. I've had bad news at work. Yeah, there's problems at home. I have just all of these And the doctor tries to talk to you and tell you, well, look, these things happen from time to time. You know, try to get out, try to away from the problems. And if it doesn't work, we'll We can always prescribe prescribe something unless it's So try something a little bit So when you've got something something weighing on your Yeah. Maybe you feel guilty about Perhaps you didn't do the report for the boss. Perhaps there was something a asked you for, and you said no. thinking about it. Oh, perhaps I should have lent You know, she really looked But you made a promise to never lend friends money. So you you decided not to do it. But now you're feeling a little And it's weighing on your conscience, weighing on your mind. So that's something pressing have to weigh w e I g h to weigh A heavy heart or a heavy heart When we have a heavy heart, it We often use the expression to means you do it, but your You don't really want to do it. Okay, so perhaps you have told your kids that we're not going to have a holiday this year because really, we can't afford it. And they're really upset because they were looking forward to the boat trip. They were looking forward to the They were looking forward to But for some reason, we don't So it's with a heavy heart that say, guys, look, I have to tell holiday this year. We just can't go. And of course, there's wailing screaming that, oh, you've Yeah, everybody's a little bit So you do it with a heavy heart. You do it without wanting to do It's just one of those things. Perhaps you're a school teacher and you look at a few and you've but for some reason they just the exams or the tests, and it's them, but you have to tell them the next time. So it's with a heavy heart that because when you look at their really, really disappointed. So to do something with a heavy heart, a nasty shock, well, a nasty shock can be literally if you stick your finger in the socket in the wall, you'll get a nasty shock. Yeah, okay. But a nasty shock is something Oh, I got a nasty shock when I The electricity has gone up by Sixty percent? Can you believe it? Wow. I don't know what I'm going to Yeah. So it's a real, real shock and We get a nasty shock when I opened the letter and found out that I'd been caught speeding a few weeks ago afterwards, that Sunday morning, I was nice and relaxed just driving along on the motorway. You know, the music on. No traffic in front of me. I didn't even see the speed saw the the police car. And of course I opened the Yeah, got a fine of seventy Could you believe it? Seventy euro. That's another nasty shock. Or when you get the vet's bill, for the second or third time in And when the bill comes in, you go, oh my God, these vets, they can really, really charge a lot of money. So another nasty shock. Okay, so nasty shock, bad news. Something you weren't expecting, something you didn't want to happen. And there when you open that there it is staring you in the I dread to think about Yeah. Now we use this expression quite Oh, I dread to think what the world's going to be like next year when we have all these food shortages, what are the what's going to be the prices of everything? We'll be able to get flour. Will we be able to get ordinary things like pasta, even toilet rolls? Okay. Remember during the pandemic you first couple of weeks for love? No money? Yeah. So I dread to think, meaning? I don't want to think about it. I dread to think what life would How would we contact everybody? How would we send messages? We'd have to go back to the old way of ringing up on those landlines or or even walking around. Oh my God, think of that. We'd have to get on a bus and go So I dread to think what life would be like without technology. I dread to think what life would like without a mobile phone. Okay. And me as a teacher, I would be like without online lessons. I'd have to get in my car. I'd have to waste hour after hour going to and back from classes. So the dread to think, or I dread to think what might happen. A negative view, a negative Well, we all have borne a grudge So if you bear a grudge, it's a You hold against somebody because of something they said or something they did or something they didn't do a long time ago. It could be days, weeks, months, Somebody or some people bear There can be family grudges, of There's families always have rows, and some brother bears a grudge against another one, and it passes on through the generations. And somebody might ask, what's Why don't they talk to each Or he bears a grudge because he they eventually got married. So it could be something to do with love often is to bear a grudge. Often the reason has been long is still there. And if you ask the people to What is all this about? Nobody could explain it to you. So to bear a grudge is when you hold something against somebody, something they did do, something they did say, or something they didn't do. And the bear a grudge for a Businesses in competition with partners or the CEOs might bear because they've got a better And it could be for many, many to dash somebody's hopes. Dash is a wonderful word to you. Can. Dash means to rush somewhere or. Dash means to break something, to dash the glass against the wall to the ship dashed against the rocks and broke into many, many pieces. So when we dash someone's hopes, We smash them. We destroy them. So if you get bad results in your exams, it dashes your hopes of getting into that university that you wanted to go to, and you'd have to settle for the other university your team lost in the semi-finals of the Cup, so dashed your hopes of being able to go and watch them in the big stadium. Or it. They dashed the hopes of yet another season. Okay, so to dash your hopes, when you are walking down the street, you. You saw the boy who you fancied and that dashed your hopes about Okay, so when you dash someone's hopes, it means they are over, they have ended, and they'll have to start again to dash your hopes, to bottle up your feelings. When we bottle something up, we a cork in the top of the bottle. So you literally bottle it up. When we bottle up our feelings, or we try not to let them out. And like every bottle with a Eventually it will pop. Yeah. Okay. So you have to be really, really And you have to be very careful. You don't shake it because it But if you bottle up your know how you feel. And you sit there steam coming Mhm. When you really should be telling somebody exactly how you feel. So we often hear the expression, Don't bottle up your feelings. You'll feel worse. It'll make you feel sick. So let it out. Go outside and scream. Go out and have a run or a Do something that will let those Don't bottle it up. Don't lock it inside you. Don't keep it with a cork on it and hopefully not in your face. Okay. So those are the ten particular collocations all about emotions and feelings, all with a negative twist. So let me go down through them To feel sick with worry, or to be worried sick, to give vent to something. To give vent to some feelings of To weigh on your conscience or To feel guilty. A heavy heart to do something don't really want to do it. But you have to do it to get a When you open that envelope and extraordinary amount of money. You dread to think about I dread to think what would To bear a grudge. To hold a grudge against somebody for a long period of time. To bear a grudge, to dash somebody's hopes, though, that they can't do what they wanted to do, what they hoped to do, to go to that university because they didn't get the right exam results. And then to bottle up your we lock everything in tightly, And sometime someplace it's It's going to cause a problem. Okay, so to bottle up your Okay, so ten particular Negative emotions and feelings. They're at a really advanced So as always, try to use them. Try to practice them. You won't remember them all, but Okay. 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