Today I want to show you another funny video and use it to learn some new expressions and vocabulary.
This time, the video is from Hillary Clinton one of the potential candidates to be the next president of The United States and about her not so successful ride in the most popular subway in the world: The New York Subway. Have a look at the video:
Did you ejoy it? Have you ever been to the New York subway? Did you have any troubles swiping the ticket through? I did!
The first phrasal verb that we notice is 'to get around' (travel from place to place). Then, we read: 'had some troubles making it past the turnstile'. The idiom 'to make it past something' means to get to the other side of something, in this case of the 'turnstile' (a struture that stops passage until a charge is paid or a number of people has passed through). Then we see the number of 'swipes' that Hillary needs to do in order to get to the train platform. 'Swipe' can be a verb or a noun in English. As a verb, 'swipe' means to slide a magnetic card through an electronic device that reads data. As a noun, 'swipe' is the action of that verb. So, the number of swipes that Hillary needs mean the number of times she needs to swipe her ticket.
Finally, the video ends by quoting: 'but don't worry Hillary. Your opponent still thinks that people use subway tokens'. This line has no other meaning than adding a comic effect to the clip by making reference to Bernie Sander´s old age since the New York Subway users used to have to buy tokens to ride the subway from 1953 to 2003.
I really hope you have liked the video and don´t forget to swipe your ticket thoroughly when you visit New York's subway next! Have a good week!
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