Take a look at this book.
How do you find it?
Do you think it's an interesting book or maybe a boring one?
What exactly is it about?
Is it a novel?
Or a scientific book?
Is it easy to read?
Or maybe, you want to hold your judgment until you actually read it or at least read the
introduction.
Well, that's what today's idiom suggests.
"Don't judge a book by its cover.'
Welcome everyone, as you can see today's idiom is "Don't judge a book by its cover."
In this second episode of #English_Idioms we will see what this expression means, how
to use it, and at the end of this video I will be sharing with you my thoughts on it.
When you judge a book or a person, you form an opinion about them.
You start guessing things about them.
And usually, or at least in the context of this expression, you do that in a negative
way, in a disapproving way.
Without having enough evidence or information to support your judgement.
When you judge a book by its cover, you are doing so based on the outside look of it.
In other words based on what's on the surface.
That's what the cover means.
This is a book and this is the cover.
This idiom asks you and advises you not to do that.
Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover.
Read it, spend sometime on it and then you get to judge it, if you have to.
The same is true for people.
Before judging a person, before forming an opinion about a person, by saying that he
or she is a good person or a bad person, a nice person or not so nice, an intelligent
person or not so much so ... etc. you need to know them first.
And believe me when I say that a person is weigh more complex than any book out there
and it takes a lot more time to get to know them.
Let's see an example: let's suppose that you are talking to your friend and you ask her:
"did you see the new teacher?
He seems to be really serious."
Your friend replies, your friend: "yes I saw him.
What's wrong with that?"
And then you say "I think it will be really hard to study under him."
And then your friend says: "Well you never know.
Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover.
We need to wait and see."
What your friend is trying to say here is that you need to wait until we get to know
him then we will see whether or not it's hard to study with him.
I think that by now you understand what this idiom means and you will be able to use it
when speaking in English.
Now the thought or the lesson that I wanted to share with you is that we should avoid
judging other people.
Our focus should be on ourselves.
Because we will never get to know the other person well enough to judge them.
And at the end of the day we will never benefit from doing that.
While on the other hand we know a lot about ourselves and hence we get to judge ourselves.
That's the moral of today's episode.
Thank you very much for your time.
Remember, you can get the transcript of this video to help you understand everything I
am saying on my website.
There is a link in the description.
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You can watch the previous episode right here and I will see you in the next video.
Take care AND never judge a book by its cover.
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