Everybody ESLEpisode 365In this episode, I am going to teach you an interesting and useful expression. The expression is the coast is clear. The coast is clear. That’s spelled the, coast, C-O-A-S-T, is, clear, C-L-E-A-R. what does the mean if someone says the coast is clear. The coast is clear is an expression that means now is a safe time to do something without anybody seeing you. If you need to do something secret. Or you need to escape, or you need to do something else when nobody can see you. The coast is clear means nobody is watching now. now is a good time to do something secret. If you are doing something, and you don’t want anybody to see you. You are doing something secret, or maybe you are doing something illegal. If it is a safe time to do that, you can say the coast is clear. The coast is clear, now you can do that thing. Now you can do that secret or surprise or illegal thing that you want to do. Why does the coast is clear mean this. How did it get this meaning. Where does this expression come from? First of all, do you know what the word coast means here? A coast is a place where the land meets the ocean. A place where the land meets the sea. That’s the coast. Maybe you have heard the word coastline. That means the line is at the edge of the land, with the land meets the ocean. I am not sure if this word is one real incident, or one real event that is the origin of this meaning. But thinking of like this, somebody was on a boat. Then they need to land the boat. They need to go to the land, go to the beach, or the shore, or the coast. But for some reason, they did not want anyone to see them. They were doing something secret. They were doing something illegal. I am not sure what the story is. But they didn’t want anyone to see them when they got to the beach, when they got close to land. When someone learned that there was no one on the beach, there was no one there to see them, to watch what they were doing, or whatever was. That person said that thcoast is clear. The coast is safe.  The coast is free of anyone watching. Now it is a good time for us to go on to the land. Or maybe was somebody on land, who want to make sure that nobody in the boat could see them doing something. I guess I don’t really know the origin of this expression. But it doesn’t really matter. Because the meaning is the same either way. The coast is clear means nobody is watching else now. now is a saft time for us to do something secret or even illegal. No one can watch us now. The coast is clear. And that is the coast is clear, Hấp dẫn và useful expression rằng tôi nghĩ bạn nên biết.(39 phút)