#18- 18 Slang Words, Phrasal Verbs and Idioms for Parties and Celebrations

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#18- 18 Slang Words, Phrasal Verbs and Idioms for Parties, Celebrations and Milestones

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It's my birthday week. So on this episode of the real life English with Gabby podcast, I'll be teaching you slang words, phrasal, verbs, and idioms for parties, celebrations, and milestones. You'll learn vocabulary like bash. Go all out. Throw down, turn up. Have a blast and more. Let's get to it.

Hey there, welcome to the Real Life English with Gabby podcast. I'm your host, Gabby, your fun and friendly English teacher from the one and only New York City. My goal is to teach you phrasal verbs, idioms, and slang that will help you speak English confidently and understand real American conversations.

Are you ready to improve your English skills? Let's jump right in.

Hey there. Welcome to a really fun episode. It's my birthday week. And so I thought [00:01:00] it would be fun to teach some party vocabulary. Here in the USA. We love celebrating birthdays in big, fun ways. In fact. Many Americans celebrate their whole birthday months with different types of festivities and parties. With different groups of friends and family. 

I'm a big birthday celebration kind of person. I love celebrating my birthday. But this year, It's kind of low key. Since it's on a Saturday. Low key means quiet, chill, easy going. My actual birthday is Saturday, April 27th. And on that day, I'm going to do something fun and simple with my husband and my kids. it's cool because my younger sister has a [00:02:00] birthday, just three days after mine. On May 1st. And so typically, my parents try to see me on my birthday. 

My parents live about 10 minutes from me driving. So my parents usually try to see me on my birthday, but then we get together with my sister's family, my family, and my parents, sometimes some other family members. And we celebrate both of our birthdays together. So it's, it's pretty fun. 

, This year, my sister is actually traveling for work. So we're going to be celebrating it a little bit later. But it's nice to have a low key birthday this year. I'm going to keep it pretty simple.

By the way I've learned something really interesting from my students about birthdays. I've learned that in some cultures it's bad luck to celebrate your birthday before. Your actual birthday. [00:03:00] For example. A few years ago. My birth day was also over the weekend and some of my students wanted to celebrate in school. The Friday before. My Italian students. were like no Gabby, we can't it's bad luck. And they told me that nobody in Italy celebrates their birthday before their actual birthday, because it's bad luck. 

You can only celebrate the day of, or after. This was really interesting because in the USA. It doesn't matter. We typically celebrate our birthdays. Whatever weekend is closest to our actual birthday could be before a birthday or after. So it's very interesting. that in Italy, They believe you can only celebrate after I get it. 

What about in your country? I'd love to hear how birthdays are celebrated in your [00:04:00] country. I'd also like to know if throwing big parties is really common in your country as well. 

A lot of Americans recently. Have been. Not doing parties as much, but instead doing experiences, I mean, vacations have always been a popular way of celebrating a birthday. , experiences are fun. Like I may do a Harry Potter exhibition on Saturday. For my birthday, because I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. As some of you know, so let's see what happens. 

Let's see. When I ended up doing.

Before we continue, I'd like to make a birth date request. I've gotten so many amazing emails. And Instagram messages from all of you, about how much you've been enjoying and learning from this podcast. And so I would ask you if you could please leave me a review. If you're listening to this on apple podcasts, especially. [00:05:00] I would love your five-star review. The more five-star reviews. This podcast gets the more it gets shared on podcast algorithms and search pages. And the more people it reaches. So your quick review, will help me. To get the podcast to more people. 

On that note, I would just like to say, thank you so much to all of you who have already left me five star reviews. And thanks so much for those of you who will leave them in the future. They really make a big impact and help me out a lot. This goes out to Jasselin. I think the name is J a S S E L I N. She wrote you are awesome. Gabby. I look forward to hearing your podcast every Wednesday. Please continue sharing these very useful idiom and slangs with us. Thank you so much, Jasselin I really appreciate your five-star [00:06:00] view. Maybe next week, I'll read your five-star review of course, if you use Spotify or another podcast player, I would also love for you to review this podcast.. 

 Back to party vocabulary. Let me tell you the 18 words that I'm going to teach you in this episode. Dirty 30. Blowout. Cut loose. Let loose. Count down. I live it up. Bring together. Bash. Shindig. Dress up. Set up. Give out. Go all out. Throw down. Hostess with the mostess, have a blast. Turn up. Party hard. And rager 

 before we get into the story. I just want to remind you that I have a study guide waiting for you. For this episode. The more you [00:07:00] expose yourself to these vocabulary words, the more you interact with them. The easier they'll be to get into your brain so that you can use them naturally. When you use English. In order to get the study guide, just go to the episode, description and click on the link. If you sign up once you never have to sign up again, it'll be sent to you every single Wednesday in your inbox.

All right. So let's get into the story.

Christiana was so excited. It was finally time for her dirty 30 blowout. And she was ready to let loose, like never before. She had been counting down the days until this moment. And tonight was the night. That she was gonna live it up with her closest friends. This party was a special one because she would be bringing together. All of her closest friends from [00:08:00] all different areas of her life. Like university. Work. And even childhood. Christiana had spent weeks planning so that this would be the ultimate bash. She sent out invitations to all her friends, two months in advance. Promising them a shindig. They would never forget. The party was going to have fun events. It was a pool party at a house that she had rented just for the event. And there would be fun events like karaoke. Dancing and more. The party had a 1980s theme. So everyone would be coming, dressed up in their coolest 1980s costumes.

Her brother and sister had arrived early to help her set up for the party. And things were looking amazing. She had [00:09:00] decided to go all out for this party. And so she bought a lot of fun decorations. She hired a DJ and food caterers as well to make sure everything was perfect. They even had fun party favors that they were going to give out to the guests as they were leaving. Christiana had thought of every detail. As the clock struck eight, the guests began to arrive. Bringing laughter. Music and good vibes. The energy was contagious. As the party started to really liven up. Food snacks and drinks flowed freely. And the dance floor was soon packed with people ready to throw down. Christiana was the hostess with the mostest. And the life of the party. She was having a blast, [00:10:00] celebrating with everyone and moving from group to group, making sure that she spent time with everyone. She also spent time making sure that all of her friends felt comfortable. And welcome. As the night progressed. People really started to turn up and it was turning into a real rager. The music was pumping and laughter filled the air. Christiana couldn't have imagined a better way to celebrate her milestone birthday. They partied hard until 3:00 AM. And as the party was winding down. Christiana looked around at her friends and felt so grateful for the memories that they had all created together. She would cherish. And remember this night, Forever.

All right, let's break these words down. So first off in the [00:11:00] opening sentence, It says it was time for her dirty 30 blowout. Americans love wordplay. We love to add cool names to things. Everything has a title. A lot of it makes us laugh. So. We have sweet 16. 

Dirty 30 or flirty? 30. So dirty 30 and flirty. 30 are phrases used to describe a person's 30th birthday. But it's associated with a lively. Memorable fun celebration. Even though it uses the word dirty. It's not associated to anything negative. It's just fun. So we say it's time for my flirty 30 or my dirty 30. 

Now this word is attached to the word blowout. There are, I believe three or four words [00:12:00] that I'm teaching you today that all have to do with. Names for parties. So a blowout. Is one of them. And so it said her dirty, 30 blowout. this is a large, we say extravagant, meaning it's beautifully decorated. There's a lot of money put into this event. And that's the kind of party or celebration that it is it's associated with having a lot of guests. A lot of fun things to do. So we only use this for big parties. It was just a small party with like 10 people. We wouldn't say blow out.

The other words here that talk about party. Is the word bash a bash is another word for party. And again, This is a lively, fun party. It can be informal. So it's definitely smaller than a blowout. But you know, we do use it often for large gatherings and [00:13:00] at a bash, you can expect music dancing, lots of people and food. The other word that we use is shindig. I know this is such a weird word, shindig. So a shindig. Is also a livelier informal party. Some kind of social gathering. Again, there's music. There's dancing. And fun.

And the last word for party. Is a rager. So a rager. Is a party that was really intense and fun. And maybe a little wild. And it's not a typical party. Like this party was like maximum intensity. you went to a party, you partied all night and you get home. You're exhausted. She's like, woo. That was a real rager. Okay. those are the four words. That mean party. 

Blow out. Bash. [00:14:00] Shindig. And rager. 

Next we have the expression to let loose. We can also say cut loose, but let loose is really the more common expression. And to let loose is to just enjoy yourself and have fun. Without any restraint. So you're not holding yourself back at all. You're behaving very freely. And this is usually used for parties or social events. we don't typically let loose at the beach, but we typically let loose at a party. 

Next we have to count down. Now. Countdown can be a noun or a phrasal verb. , the noun is a countdown referring to the thing. to countdown, this is when you're tracking. The time, the remaining time before some kind of significant event. Maybe it's a deadline. And we typically do this with a lot of [00:15:00] excitement. Anticipation. We're very happy to be counting down the days. in the story you heard her say counting down the days. this is a common expression. 

Next we have live it up. Live it up is similar to let loose. This is when you enjoy your life to the fullest. Every type of activity. You're going to do it. And typically we associate this with celebration or. Let's say that you just won the lottery or you won a specific amount of money. You say, all right, guys, we're going to live it up.

Okay, next we have bring together. Another phrasal verb. This is when you gather people or assemble people. In one place. And often It's for a specific purpose or event. So things that were separate now, you're bringing them together. 

Next we have the [00:16:00] phrasal verb. Dress up. It says that people were dressing up in 1980s costumes. Okay. The word dress-up is used in two ways. But generally. It's when you wear some kind of special clothing. So typically. I would say. Oh, I'm going to an opera tonight. I really want to dress up. I want to wear. Special clothes that I don't normally wear formal, fancy. , we use this when there's a special occasion or event. 

That's one meaning of dress-up. But the second meaning of dress-up is specifically when we wear costumes. For Halloween, for example I'll say, oh, for Halloween, I'm dressing up like Michael Jackson. That means I'm wearing the costume. 

 The next one is set up. So her brother and sister came to help her set up for the party, set up [00:17:00] means to prepare or arrange something in advance. So ahead of time, before it starts, And really we use this when we're talking about the organization or decoration of a space where an event or gathering is going to happen. 

Next we have another phrasal verb. Give out. Give out means to distribute or hand out something to people like invitations, prizes favors. We can even say, giving out. Papers. Like my teacher gave out the test. After our morning discussion. 

Next we have go all out. To go all out is when you put in a lot of effort or you put in a lot of your resources, like your money, your time, your work. You put it into this. And. You're doing it to the highest possible level. You don't hold [00:18:00] anything back. So you're putting everything into this. 

Next we have throw down. throw down is an interesting phrasal verb. 

We use it a lot with slang meanings. So throw down. you say, oh, Hey, come to my barbecue tomorrow. I'm going to throw down. But really throw down also means like to perform at a high level. So in the story, it says like people are ready to throw down on the dance floor. 

Like they were really ready. To do it at a high level and have fun.

Next we have the expression, the hostess with the mostest. Okay. So this is funny. This is definitely slang. first off. We have host for men and hostess for women. Now we have started to use hosts for men and women. It's like the generic word, the unisex word, but we also have hostess. So when you go to someone's house or party, [00:19:00] They are the hostess, unless they paid someone else to host the event for them. So the expression hostess with the most, it's just wordplay. Instead of saying with the most, we just say mostest because it rhymes. And so this just means someone who is extremely hospitable. 

They're very good at hosting guests. They go above and beyond, which means that they do more than people expect of them. They truly just want people to have a good time . With no drama. Next we have the expression to have a blast. I have a blast means to have fun, have a great time, enjoy yourself. And we typically use it for parties or social events.

 next we have the phrasal verb turn up, but it's actually the slang, meaning that we're looking at here. Turn up. Means. In one sense. It's [00:20:00] very similar to the regular definition. So turn up is like, I can't hear the TV. Can you turn up the volume? in this case, it's when you're increasing your intensity, energy and excitement. So that things are becoming more lively. Especially at parties or events. 

And then lastly, we have party hard. So party hard. This is a really popular one party. Hard. Just means to. Engage in or participate in intense, enthusiastic, exciting celebration. partying hard means that you stay out partying for a long time. So maybe a lot of late nights. Some loud music and a lot of energetic dancing. 

 There are a few other words. That I want to explain, even though they're not words that are like focused vocabulary words. one of the lines in the story says the energy was [00:21:00] contagious. And the party really started to liven up. contagious is something that spreads from one person to another. 

We talked a little bit about this in. Episode. Number 16. All about sickness. And live and up means to get more exciting, to get more alive.

And then the other phrasal verb that I wanted to discuss was it says they partied hard until 3:00 AM. And the party was winding down, winding down means to get more and more calm. And quiet.

 there you have it. I just gave you 18. Awesome. Examples of real life slang, phrasal verbs, and idioms. Now you can go out into the real world and speak English confidently. Don't forget. To grab the study guide and leave a five star review. 

Well, that's a wrap for today's episode of [00:22:00] the Real Life English with Gabby podcast. Be sure to download today's study guide so that you can learn how to use this vocabulary confidently. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe for more weekly adventures in English learning. Also, I'd love to hear from you, so please leave me a review.

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#18 - 18 Slang Words, Phrasal Verbs, and Idioms for Parties, Celebrations, and Milestones

[00:00:00] It's my birthday week. So on this episode of the Real Life English with Gabby podcast, I'll be teaching you slang words, phrasal verbs, and idioms for parties, celebrations, and milestones. You'll learn vocabulary like bash, go all out, throw down, turn up, have a blast, and more. Let's get to it.

Hey there, welcome to the Real Life English with Gabby podcast. I'm your host, Gabby, your fun and friendly English teacher from the one and only New York City. My goal is to teach you phrasal verbs, idioms, and slang that will help you speak English confidently and understand real American conversations. Are you ready to improve your English skills? Let's jump right in.

Hey there. Welcome to a really fun episode. It's my birthday week. And so I thought [00:01:00] it would be fun to teach some party vocabulary. Here in the USA, we love celebrating birthdays in big, fun ways. In fact, many Americans celebrate their whole birthday months with different types of festivities and parties with different groups of friends and family. I'm a big birthday celebration kind of person. I love celebrating my birthday. But this year, it's kind of low key since it's on a Saturday. "Low key" means quiet, chill, easy-going. My actual birthday is Saturday, April 27th. And on that day, I'm going to do something fun and simple with my husband and my kids. It's cool because my younger sister has a [00:02:00] birthday just three days after mine, on May 1st. And so typically, my parents try to see me on my birthday.

My parents live about 10 minutes from me driving. So my parents usually try to see me on my birthday, but then we get together with my sister's family, my family, and my parents, sometimes some other family members, and we celebrate both of our birthdays together. So it's pretty fun. This year, my sister is actually traveling for work, so we're going to be celebrating it a little bit later. But it's nice to have a low-key birthday this year. I'm going to keep it pretty simple.

By the way, I've learned something really interesting from my students about birthdays. I've learned that in some cultures, it's bad luck to celebrate your birthday before your actual birthday. [00:03:00] For example, a few years ago, my birthday was also over the weekend and some of my students wanted to celebrate in school. The Friday before, my Italian students were like, "No Gabby, we can't, it's bad luck." And they told me that nobody in Italy celebrates their birthday before their actual birthday because it's bad luck. You can only celebrate the day of or after. This was really interesting because in the USA, it doesn't matter. We typically celebrate our birthdays whenever the weekend is closest to our actual birthday, whether it's before or after. So it's very interesting that in Italy, they believe you can only celebrate after. I get it. What about in your country? I'd love to hear how birthdays are celebrated in your [00:04:00] country. I'd also like to know if throwing big parties is really common in your country as well. A lot of Americans recently have been not doing parties as much, but instead doing experiences. I mean, vacations have always been a popular way of celebrating a birthday. Experiences are fun. Like I may do a Harry Potter exhibition on Saturday for my birthday because I'm a huge Harry Potter fan, as some of you know. So let's see what happens. Let's see when I end up doing.

Before we continue, I'd like to make a birthday request. I've gotten so many amazing emails and Instagram messages from all of you about how much you've been enjoying and learning from this podcast. And so I would ask you if you could please leave me a review. If you're listening to this on Apple Podcasts especially. [00:05:00] I would love your five-star review. The more five-star reviews this podcast gets, the more it gets shared on podcast algorithms and search pages, and the more people it reaches. So your quick review will help me to get the podcast to more people.

On that note, I would just like to say thank you so much to all of you who have already left me five-star reviews. And thanks so much for those of you who will leave them in the future. They really make a big impact and help me out a lot. This goes out to Jasselin. I think the name is J-A-S-S-E-L-I-N. She wrote, "You are awesome, Gabby. I look forward to hearing your podcast every Wednesday. Please continue sharing these very useful idioms and slangs with us. Thank you so much, Jasselin." I really appreciate your five-star [00:06:00] review. Maybe next week I'll read your five-star review, of course, if you use Spotify or another podcast player, I would also love for you to review this podcast.

Back to party vocabulary. Let me tell you the 18 words that I'm going to teach you in this episode. Dirty 30, blowout, cut loose, let loose, count down, live it up, bring together, bash, shindig, dress up, set up, give out, go all out, throw down, hostess with the mostest, have a blast, turn up, party hard, and rager.

Before we get into the story, I just want to remind you that I have a study guide waiting for you for this episode. The more you [00:07:00] expose yourself to these vocabulary words, the more you interact with them, the easier they'll be to get into your brain so that you can use them naturally when you use English. In order to get the study guide, just go to the episode description and click on the link. If you sign up once, you never have to sign up again. It'll be sent to you every single Wednesday in your inbox.

All right, so let's get into the story. Christiana was so excited. It was finally time for her Dirty 30 blowout, and she was ready to let loose like never before. She had been counting down the days until this moment, and tonight was the night that she was going to live it up with her closest friends. This party was a special one because she would be bringing together all of her closest friends from [00:08:00] all different areas of her life, like university, work, and even childhood. Christiana had spent weeks planning so that this would be the ultimate bash. She sent out invitations to all her friends two months in advance, promising them a shindig they would never forget.

The party was going to have fun events. It was a pool party at a house that she had rented just for the event. And there would be fun events like karaoke, dancing, and more. The party had an 1980s theme, so everyone would be coming dressed up in their coolest 1980s costumes. Her brother and sister had arrived early to help her set up for the party, and things were looking amazing. She had decided to go all out for this party, so she bought a lot of fun decorations, hired a DJ, and food caterers as well to make sure everything was perfect. They even had fun party favors that they were going to give out to the guests as they were leaving. Christiana had thought of every detail. As the clock struck eight, the guests began to arrive, bringing laughter, music, and good vibes. The energy was contagious, and as the party started to really liven up, food, snacks, and drinks flowed freely, and the dance floor was soon packed with people ready to throw down. Christiana was the hostess with the mostest and the life of the party. She was having a blast celebrating with everyone and moving from group to group, making sure that she spent time with everyone. She also spent time making sure that all of her friends felt comfortable and welcome. As the night progressed, people really started to turn up, and it was turning into a real rager. The music was pumping, and laughter filled the air. Christiana couldn't have imagined a better way to celebrate her milestone birthday. They partied hard until 3:00 AM, and as the party was winding down, Christiana looked around at her friends and felt so grateful for the memories that they had all created together. She would cherish and remember this night forever.

All right, let's break these words down. So first off in the opening sentence, it says it was time for her Dirty 30 blowout. Americans love wordplay. We love to add cool names to things. Everything has a title. A lot of it makes us laugh. So we have sweet 16, Dirty 30, or flirty 30. So Dirty 30 and flirty 30 are phrases used to describe a person's 30th birthday, but it's associated with a lively, memorable, fun celebration. Even though it uses the word dirty, it's not associated with anything negative. It's just fun. So we say it's time for my flirty 30 or my Dirty 30.

Now this word is attached to the word blowout. There are, I believe, three or four words [00:12:00] that I'm teaching you today that all have to do with names for parties. So a blowout is one of them. And so it said her Dirty 30 blowout. This is a large, we say extravagant, meaning it's beautifully decorated. There's a lot of money put into this event. And that's the kind of party or celebration that it is, it's associated with having a lot of guests, a lot of fun things to do. So we only use this for big parties. If it was just a small party with like 10 people, we wouldn't say blowout.

The other words here that talk about party is the word bash. A bash is another word for party. And again, this is a lively, fun party. It can be informal, so it's definitely smaller than a blowout, but you know, we do use it often for large gatherings and at a bash, you can expect music dancing, lots of people, and food. The other word that we use is shindig. I know this is such a weird word, shindig. So a shindig is also a livelier, informal party. Some kind of social gathering. Again, there's music, there's dancing, and fun. And the last word for party is a rager. So a rager is a party that was really intense and fun. And maybe a little wild. And it's not a typical party. Like this party was like maximum intensity. You went to a party, you partied all night, and you get home, you're exhausted. She's like, woo. That was a real rager. Okay, those are the four words that mean party. Blowout, bash, shindig, and rager.

Next, we have the expression to let loose. We can also say cut loose, but let loose is really the more common expression. And to let loose is to just enjoy yourself and have fun without any restraint. So you're not holding yourself back at all. You're behaving very freely. And this is usually used for parties or social events. We don't typically let loose at the beach, but we typically let loose at a party.

Next, we have to count down. Now, countdown can be a noun or a phrasal verb. The noun is a countdown referring to the thing. To countdown, this is when you're tracking the time, the remaining time before some kind of significant event. Maybe it's a deadline. And we typically do this with a lot of [00:15:00] excitement, anticipation. We're very happy to be counting down the days. In the story, you heard her say counting down the days. This is a common expression.

Next, we have live it up. Live it up is similar to let loose. This is when you enjoy your life to the fullest. Every type of activity, you're going to do it. And typically we associate this with celebration or let's say that you just won the lottery or you won a specific amount of money. You say, all right, guys, we're going to live it up.

Okay, next, we have bring together. Another phrasal verb. This is when you gather people or assemble people in one place. And often it's for a specific purpose or event. So things that were separate now, you're bringing them together.

Next, we have the phrasal verb dress up. It says that people were dressing up in 1980s costumes. Okay, the word dress-up is used in two ways. But generally, it's when you wear some kind of special clothing. So typically, I would say, oh, I'm going to an opera tonight. I really want to dress up. I want to wear special clothes that I don't normally wear, formal, fancy. We use this when there's a special occasion or event. That's one meaning of dress-up. But the second meaning of dress-up is specifically when we wear costumes. For Halloween, for example, I'll say, oh, for Halloween, I'm dressing up like Michael Jackson. That means I'm wearing the costume.

The next one is set up. So her brother and sister came to help her set up for the party. Set up means to prepare or arrange something in advance. So ahead of time, before it starts. And really we use this when we're talking about the organization or decoration of a space where an event or gathering is going to happen.

Next, we have another phrasal verb, give out. Give out means to distribute or hand out something to people like invitations, prizes, favors. We can even say giving out papers. Like my teacher gave out the test after our morning discussion.

Next, we have go all out. To go all out is when you put in a lot of effort or you put in a lot of your resources, like your money, your time, your work. You put it into this. And you're doing it to the highest possible level. You don't hold [00:18:00] anything back. So you're putting everything into this.

Next, we have throw down. Throw down is an interesting phrasal verb. We use it a lot with slang meanings. So throw down. You say, oh, Hey, come to my barbecue tomorrow. I'm going to throw down. But really throw down also means like to perform at a high level. So in the story, it says like people are ready to throw down on the dance floor. Like they were really ready to do it at a high level and have fun.

Next, we have the expression, the hostess with the mostest. Okay. So this is funny. This is definitely slang. First off, we have host for men and hostess for women. Now we have started to use hosts for men and women. It's like the generic word, the unisex word, but we also have hostess. So when you go to someone's house or party, they are the hostess, unless they paid someone else to host the event for them. So the expression hostess with the most, it's just wordplay. Instead of saying with the most, we just say mostest because it rhymes. And so this just means someone who is extremely hospitable. They're very good at hosting guests. They go above and beyond, which means that they do more than people expect of them. They truly just want people to have a good time with no drama.

Next we have the expression to have a blast. I have a blast means to have fun, have a great time, enjoy yourself. And we typically use it for parties or social events.

Next, we have the phrasal verb turn up, but it's actually the slang meaning that we're looking at here. Turn up means in one sense, it's very similar to the regular definition. So turn up is like, I can't hear the TV. Can you turn up the volume? But we also use it to refer to having a really good time, getting excited, showing up to an event or a party and really bringing the energy. Like they came to party. They came to have a good time. They turned up. We don't say turn up for work. We don't say turn up for school. We only use this for partying.

Next, we have the expression party hard. So party hard is another way of saying have a good time at a party, but it has the connotation of maybe you're drinking a lot, maybe you're staying up late, maybe you're being a little wild.

And the last one is a rager. We talked about this a little bit before, but just to review it, a rager is a very intense, fun party. Typically, we would say a teenage party. Like it was a real rager. It was off the chain. That means it was like, it was intense, it was amazing. And I think we use this a lot for teenagers because a lot of parties that they have are really intense and fun.

Okay. That was the 18 slang words, phrasal verbs, and idioms for parties, celebrations, and milestones. I hope you enjoyed [00:22:00] this episode. If you did, make sure to go leave me a review. And if you would like to learn the vocabulary words from this episode, make sure to get the study guide. You can get it by going to the description and clicking on the link. I'll see you in the next episode.