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Learn the English Phrases "Good catch!" and "a real catch"

Learn the English Phrases "Good catch!" and "a real catch"2. Sept.4 Min.

<p>In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase &quot;good catch.&quot; We say this phrase when someone else tells us about a mistake we&#39;ve made. Let&#39;s say you put two big crates on the back of a truck, and you put straps on the one crate to hold it down, and you forgot about the second one, and someone said to you, &quot;Hey, you forgot to put straps on that crate.&quot; You would say, &quot;good catch.&quot;</p><p>Sometimes when I give students a test I make a mistake, and a student might say, &quot;Hey, question number four has a mistake in it.&quot; And I would respond and say, &quot;Good catch.&quot; Basically, it&#39;s kind of like saying, &quot;Thank you for finding the mistake.&quot; If one of you heard me make a mistake in a video and you mentioned it in a comment, I would reply by saying, &quot;Good catch.&quot; Basically saying, &quot;Hey, you noticed the mistake.</p><p>That&#39;s awesome.&quot; The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase &quot;a real catch.&quot; When you say someone is a real catch. It means that they are a good person to have as a boyfriend or girlfriend, and maybe eventually marry. So here&#39;s a good example.</p><p>Let&#39;s say your cousin is dating someone, and he&#39;s a doctor, and he has lots of money, and he&#39;s kind and generous, and he&#39;s not selfish, and he treats your cousin really, really well. You would say, &quot;Wow, he&#39;s a good catch.&quot; Basically, a good catch, a real catch, a catch.</p><p>You can use any of those. He&#39;s a real catch. Basically, saying that. Wow, you found a really special person to be your boyfriend or girlfriend. But hey, oh, to review, good catch means hey, you saw a mistake and you told me about it and I thanking and I&#39;m thanking you for it.</p><p>A real catch or a catch is simply someone, just a really nice person. They don&#39;t have to be rich, they don&#39;t have to be a doctor, but just someone who you would want to spend the rest of your life with. Sorry, I&#39;m a little distracted at all the traffic, and I also feel like my new haircut.</p><p>And this sky always makes me look like I have no hair at all. I don&#39;t know, it&#39;s kind of weird lighting. Anyways, let&#39;s look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Prince. Please also do C1 - C2. I can&#39;t find enough good material on YouTube, cause most is basic.</p><p>Thank you. And then my response, good point. Most of my lessons are based on phra