Learn the English Phrases 'to have a reputation' and 'your reputation precedes you'

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HAVE A REPUTATION and YOUR REPUTATION PRECEDES YOU

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to have a reputation. When you have a reputation, it means that something about you, one of your character traits is so strong that people think about you when they think about that character trait. Let me try to explain this a little bit better. I think I'm a nice teacher. I think I have a reputation as being a nice teacher. You'd have to ask my students to find out for sure. But when people think of me, I hope that I have a reputation of being very nice and kind. You might know someone who's just really mean, and they have a reputation of being mean. So you might have someone in your neighborhood who always yells from their front porch or is never happy, and they have a reputation of being kind of grouchy all the time. So when you have a reputation, it means that your strongest character trait is something that is very obvious about you.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is your reputation precedes you. What this means is that you know something about someone before you actually meet them. If I was to meet the prime minister of Canada, his reputation precedes him. He seems to be a nice person, although right now some people don't like him and we might be having an election in a while and I'm not sure he'll get in again. But I think his reputation is that he's somewhat kind and nice to people. We'll see if Canadians find their way into the comments below and disagree with me. But anyways, when your reputation precedes you, it means that before you even meet someone, you kind of know something about them.

So to review to have a reputation means that you're known for a certain thing. Maybe you're known as being very athletic and very aggressive when you play sports, you have a reputation of being a good athlete. And then your reputation precedes you. Simply means that people know something about you before you meet them. If Wayne Gretzky came to play hockey with me, his reputation precedes him. I already know he's going to be a better hockey player than me.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video, an extremely crumpled up comment. The pockets in my shorts are very small, so the comment gets crumpled. From Ruslan I guess teacher Bob had no road rage because all drivers know if they mess with teacher Bob, they will never pass the ielts test. And then Judit or Aerosmith77 has a good laugh. Ha ha ha. And then my response is, my reputation precedes me. So now you can see how I come up with the ideas sometimes. So, as I responded to Ruslan's comment. Thanks, by the way, Ruslan, I had the thought, oh, I should do a lesson on the phrase my reputation precedes me.

Well, hey, we just got done getting a lot of rain. I was going to use an inappropriate word there, but maybe I should do a lesson someday on inappropriate words. We just got a lot of rain. In fact, we got, I think, two and a half inches. If I spin you around, not sure you can see all the way across the river, but there's water in the field over there where there's normally not water. Somehow the rain came endlessly. So, as I mentioned, it was Hurricane Beryl. We got the remnants of it. So the last little bit. So it rained most of the day yesterday. It was kind of an interesting day. At one point thought, I hope it stops raining soon. When it started, I was happy because it will make everything grow nicely. But at a certain point, I was like, okay, this is getting to be a little bit much. A little bit too much. You can use both phrases to indicate that. And thankfully, after a bit, it did stop. It kind of came in waves yesterday. So it rained hard, and then it stopped raining, and then it rained hard, and then it stopped.

So anyways, everything should grow like crazy now for the next little bit. Thanks for watching. I'll see you next week with another short English lesson. And have a good week. Bye.

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[Aleksey_FE]

A good reputation is a useful thing. As Mark Twain said, "Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep until noon." Thanks for the lesson, have a nice week.

[Denis_Shakhmatov]

Thanks a lot for the lesson, Bob! Your reputation as an honest, objective, fair, dedicated teacher precedes you. But the most important thing is that you are a good guy. There is no need to ruin your reputation as an intelligent, well-mannered person by using inappropriate words

[Davi_Cosmo]

Yes, teacher. You have a reputation and you're nice and kind. We love you ❤🎉

[DoloresMazzeo]

As far as im concerned you are the best teacher ever met and however your reputation precdes you.❤❤❤

[mengyingzhang-uzcg]

and of course, your reputation precedes you. You are a nice people for sure, I wouldn't even need to ask your students.

[FranciscoVietnam]

0:57 « Votre réputation vous a précédé !!! » 😊👍🇫🇷

[mahdialshammari]

Thank you, Bob!
Those were great phrases! We use the second one a lot here👍🏻

[Know-that]

I don't think it's really necessary to ask your students if you're a nice teacher, Bob 😘. Because I think there are more than enough things that show that you are one. (Without a doubt 💛). And I'm pretty sure that if we asked them they would confirm it exactly like that. Anyways, thanks for the great new lesson, Bob. You're awesome and that's a fact. Have a lovely day. 👨‍🏫🏆🌟

[noriko]

Do you tend to use second phrase in a positive situation? Does it sound weird when we use this in a negative situation? Like,
"Hey, that hockey player messes up every game. " " I know that. His reputation precedes him."
I'm glad that you didn't get serious damage from the hurricane 🌀🙂🌪️ Thanks.

[unsalhakanuysal]

Heavy rainfall can sometimes have a bad reputation for damaging crops. The opposite bank of the river seems to be at a disadvantage compared to your bank in terms of river overflows and floods. In such cases, don't your neighbor's crops get damaged, how do they cope with this situation? Thank you so much for your hard work! Have a great day! Bye 👋😊🌹💐♥️

[Know-that]

Regarding the rain, Bob, I'm wondering if it actually affects your pond near the barn? I mean, is there a risk of it overflowing during heavy or continuous rain? If so, do you need to prepare it for that or does the water just flow into the river? Thanks again Bob and like I said, have a nice Friday. 🌧🏠🏞

[qiupark]

Yes for sure you are really a perfect teacher. I don't need to ask your students coz I'm your online student.😜

[William_fu]

Hi, teacher Bob, i just learned a joke today, and i wanna share it with you, why is 6 afraid of 7? because 7 ate(eight) 9🤣

[EngIishFromAbc]

Tnak You bob. from sri Lanka. like my comment, this is my first comment mate!

[FranciscoVietnam]

« Être connu comme le loup blanc ». 😂👍🇫🇷
= be famous.

[franciscopontesvelasco]

Some people might have a bad reputation and then its hard for people to judge them in a fair way

[Aerosmith]

See you next week. I wait your live streaming but I have to go to hospital due my feet is still swollen on the side of the wound. I hope to get back.

[mengyingzhang-uzcg]

The river has flooded a little bit again. It seems that the water swells every once in a while each summer. Anyways, have a good day!