I think he's under a lot of pressure at work. Okay you can use this phrase on its own without any further explanation. So again, when you feel stressed because you've got too much to do or too many responsibilities, you're under pressure. (to be) under pressure + to do (something) Are you sure you want to volunteer at the local church? You've already got so much on your plate.Ħ.I've just got too much on my plate right now. So if someone asks you to do something extra, you know, on top of everything else you've got to do that day, you might even say There's lots of delicious things that you want to try but you overdo it and everything starts spilling off the sides of the plate right. So think about going to a buffet right and you've got your plate, you load up so much stuff onto that plate. So a similar expression is ‘to have a lot' or ‘too much on your plate'. He's got so much on his mind at the moment.
Okay so you know if you forget something really important or you find yourself not listening or not paying attention to someone who's talking to you, then this can be a really good way to excuse yourself. That is when you have a lot on your mind.
You can't focus and you're really mentally tired. Now when you're worried about lots of things you know you're thinking about them all the time, it's really distracting.
I feel like I've just created this whole lesson to offer advice to myself. You always want to try and avoid burnout right by taking time off and relaxing a little.
By the end of final exams, both the teachers and the students are completely burnt out.Īnd you also hear the noun ‘burnout' used for that complete exhaustion. So when you're really tired and you're stressed because you've been working hard for way too long, you don't have any energy left to do anything else, that's when you're burnt out. So did you notice how with all of those examples, I was using them across tenses? It's a really useful expression to remember, to try and put into use.Īnother synonym to describe how you're feeling when you're stressed is to be or to feel burnt out. I don't want to do it because I know it will stre ss me out. Being in such a big crowd yesterday stressed me out. For me, traffic always stresses me out. We use this phrase in the past and the present to talk about what's causing stress, what creates stress. What's stressing you out? What is it that is stressing you out? Are you doing okay? You look a bit stressed. I'm always stressed out at the end of the month when our accounts are due. You can watch it up here if you're interested to learn a bit more about it.īut it's also really common to hear “stressed out” and stressed out means exactly the same thing, the phrases are really interchangeable. This is true for the adjective and also for the past tense form of the verb ‘stress' and I've got a whole pronunciation lesson about this actually, about past tense regular verbs. This is an unvoiced sound so -ed is then pronounced. When the consonant before -ed is an unvoiced sound. So I know that it's really odd to pronounce -ed as a T sound but that's a really common feature of English pronunciation. If not today, then yesterday or last week or maybe a few months ago and this is how we describe people when they're tired, anxious or grumpy because they just have too much going on.Īnd it's stressed. I'm certain that you have felt stressed at some point. We work, study, family, responsibility, not enough money, not enough time, not enough sleep. Like I said earlier, we all live pretty busy lives. I make new ones every week and by subscribing, you'll see them pop up in your feed here on Youtube. Plus, that's the way that you'll see all of my lessons. If you stop by my channel often, take a quick moment to hit that subscribe button down there, that would be so lovely of you. I'll be sharing idioms, verbs, phrases to help you explain and express stress so let's get into it. I really want you to be thinking about how these expressions could apply to your life. 
So get your pens out, get ready to take some notes. It's also really important to talk about it with others and so that is exactly what this lesson is gonna focus on, thirteen common English expressions to talk about stress.
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Our lives are incredibly busy, full of information, ambition, problems and challenges to overcome.įor me, for you, for all of us, it is so important to recognise stress and to try and manage it. Hey there I'm Emma from mmmEnglish! There are a lot of reasons why our stress levels have been on the rise lately.
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