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Have you spilled your guts recently?
Have you seen or heard about anything which

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made your blood boil or left you
scared stiff? Well, before those bad

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dreams come back to haunt you,
let's discuss. Welcome to another Happy English

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podcast, coming to you from New
York City. And here's your English teacher,

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Michael. All right, thank you
John, and thanks everyone. It's

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Michael here from Happy English and I
help people speak English better. And this

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is Happy English Podcast, Episode six
ninety one. Spooky Idioms. Halloween is

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right around the corner, so I
thought we could have a look at some

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spooky idioms. These are six phrases
that you can use in your everyday English

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conversation to get the ball rolling.
Listen to a story about what happened between

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two co workers. Sarah and David
were co workers, but they were also

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best friends. They always supported each
other and shared their thoughts openly. One

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day, Sarah decided to spill her
guts to David about her plan to apply

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for promotion that the company was offering. She trusted him, but what she

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didn't know was that David had skeletons
in the closet. He actually wanted the

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same promotion, but never told anyone. A week later, Sarah found out

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that David had applied for the position
without telling her. It really made her

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blood boil. She confronted David,
who was scared stiff by her sudden change

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in tone. David admitted he had
also applied for the promotion, but he

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didn't apologize. Sarah felt betrayed.
She realized David's secret ambition had come back

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to haunt their friendship. It wasn't
long before the interview day arrived and both

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were really nervous, But David didn't
do well during the interview. He was

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still feeling guilty about what he had
done to Sarah. He knew he had

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dug his own grave. When the
interviewers questioned his teamwork skills. I kind

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of feel sorry for David, the
kind of Well, let's check out these

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idioms. The first one is to
spill your guts. Spill your guts means

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to tell someone all your secret thoughts
or plans. When you spill your guts,

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you are usually hesitant to do so. Here are some examples. Sarah

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decided to spill her guts to David
about her plan to apply for a promotion

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during the team meeting, Susan spilled
her guts about how she felt the project

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was going in the wrong direction.
At the party, Mark took Lisa aside

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and spilled his guts about his growing
romantic feelings toward her. Next is to

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be scared stiff. When you are
scared stiff, you are so scared or

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frightened you can't move or think clearly. You can be scared stiff or get

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scared stiff. For example, the
first night in her new apartment, Nancy

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got scared stiff when she heard strange
noises coming from the closet. When the

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computer system crashed, Karen was scared
stiff because she thought all the data might

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be lost. During the presentation,
Brian was scared stiff when he realized he

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had forgotten some important slides. The
next one is come back to haunt you.

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When something comes back to haunt you. The something is something that you

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did in the past, maybe something
not so good, like a mistake or

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other bad thing, and that thing
has returned in a way that causes problems

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for you. Now Here are some
examples. Steve didn't save his work and

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that came back to haunt him when
his computer suddenly crashed. Bill's lifestyle of

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drinking a lot and eating fast food
is going to come back to haunt him

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when he gets older. Skipping team
meetings came back to haunt Linda when she

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was not aware of the important changes. Speaking of bad things you've done in

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the past, we have skeletons in
the closet. A skeleton in the closet

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is a secret or thing from your
past that you would prefer to keep hidden

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from people in your life right now. For example, David didn't want to

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run for office because he had some
skeletons in the closet that could hurt his

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reputation. Lenny was a troubled teenager, so when he was first dating Helen,

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he tried to keep all of his
skeletons in the closet During the office

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party, Emily tried to avoid questions
about her past, fearing that her skeletons

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in the closet might be revealed.
The next one is to make your blood

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boil. Can you imagine your feeling
if your blood was boiling. If that

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happens, you must be pretty upset
or angry. And that's what this idiom

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means. If something makes your blood
boil, it makes you very angry.

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Here are some examples. When Mike
got off of work, he went to

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the parking lot and noticed that someone
had scratched his new car. It made

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his blood boil. If you come
to work late again, it's going to

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make the boss's blood boil. I
could see that it made Paul's blood boil

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when the meeting was canceled without notice. The last one is to dig your

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own grave. When you dig your
own grave, you do something that causes

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your own failure or downfall. Keep
in mind