Top five Halloween American English Idioms | Improve your English Vocabulary with New Expressions

Have you ever wondered why a person says "scaredy cat"? In this video, I talk about 5 very common English Idioms that are Halloween-themed! Watch the full video with my top 5 idioms for Halloween to improve your English and impress your friends. ------------------- • Idiom Activity for ESL or EFL Students : https://youtu.be/m_1SWRQSWHg ------------------- • Check out my blog if you want to find more information about American English Idioms https://eslspeaking.org/american-english-idioms/ Check out my 365 American English Idioms book: https://amzn.to/3bCR2Yv -------------------- https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #esl #learningenglishwithjackie #englishidioms #halloweenidioms ------------------------------------------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------------------------------------- Transcript for Halloween Idioms: Here are my top five Halloween idioms. The first idiom is skeleton in the closet. This means an embarrassing secret. so If you're a politician or a famous person, you don't want your skeletons in the closet to come out because it could create a lot of embarrassment for you. My second idiom related to Halloween is ghost town. A ghost town is somewhere where there are no people. You might be driving and then you drive through a town and you see stores and buildings but there are no people. That is a ghost town. My third idiom is Night Owl. A night owl is someone who loves to stay up very late at night. I might say, my friend, Jill is a night owl. She never goes to bed before 3am. The fourth Halloween idiom is scaredy cat. My cat Lucy is scared of everything. She's scared of people, and she's scared of loud noises so I would say she is a scaredy cat. But that also can describe a person who is scared of many, many things. My fifth Halloween idiom is graveyard shift. This is someone who works at night. So I can say, my dad worked the graveyard shift when I was growing up. That means you start work at 10 or 11 at night and then you maybe finish work at seven or eight in the morning. That's it for my top five ESL Halloween idioms. Please check out my book, 365 Idioms. Until next time, bye everybody. Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:10 Skeleton in the closet 0:26 Ghost town 0:42 Night owl 0:54 Scaredy cat 1:12 Graveyard shift Tags: Halloween phrases, Halloween themed, Halloween sentences, American English Idioms, American English Idioms and phrases, American English phrases, how to speak english, idioms, phrases, english idioms, english phrases, american english, canadian english, learning american english, common english idioms,