Hey guys, I'm Ken. I'm learning English by watching real-life YouTube videos and practicing what I learned.
So I had a stiff neck last night, and it was super painful. I was wondering how to avoid it again in the future, so I searched for some YouTube videos and learned along the way. Based on them, I realized that pillows play a vital role.
I watched one video in particular in detail: "How to choose the best pillow for you", and I took some notes and would like to share some highlights here. If you want to master these words and phrases, you can copy all these notes, head over to LanguagePuppy and do that.
I'm going to brief these in three aspects, here we go.
Pillow Vocabulary
Basically, there are three different types of pillows:
- down pillows
- memory foam pillows
- latex pillows
As with other things, there are no one-size-fits-all pillows, because we need to consider many different factors to find the right one.
We can use "the pillow loft" to refer to the height of a pillow.
Depending on how you're used to sleeping in bed, you may be one of these three types of sleepers:
- a back sleeper
- a side sleeper
- a stomach sleeper
Some people have a down allergy, which means they are allergic to down. We could also say "down can trigger or aggravate their allergies".
Phrasal Verbs
- come down to something
- If a situation or decision comes down to something, that is the thing that influences it most
- hold up
- to remain strong or successful
Idioms
I'm curious whether the following are both idioms, but they're used a lot in daily life.
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"one way or the other" = "one way or another" It means in any way that is possible:
- These bills have to be paid one way or another.
- "That should be a given." = "That's a given." "That should be a given" means something is an obvious, certain, or assumed truth that doesn't require explanation. It implies that a particular fact or situation is a sure thing and should be taken for granted.