Terms to Chew Over: 'Hansel and Gretel' Like You've Never Heard It

bored out of their minds, so they decided to take a walk in the forest and got lost.

out of it. 'Out of it' means not completely coherent, not really thinking rationally.

tip-top shape -- which means great physical condition -- but after eating so much he felt sick as a dog and felt like he was running a fever. That means to have a fever. He was nervous that he was going to lose his cookies. Now that simply means to vomit. Why cookies, I don't know, but it's very common."

bounce back. Now that means to recover from being sick. He felt really blah. This is a great word. It's what we call an onomatopoeia, which simply is a word that sounds like what it means. So if you feel 'blah,' you have no energy, you just feel really terrible."

go under the knife, which means to have surgery. The last thing he needed was to go see some kind of quack."

run its course, which means just go through its natural progress of being bad, and then finally curing itself.

under the weather too. 'Under the weather' simply means kind of sick. She thought she may even pass out. 'Pass out' simply means to faint. Hansel said, 'Gretel, just mellow out. Take a chill pill.' Because when you're really tense, you're hot, so 'take a chill pill,' relax. Well, early the next morning the old woman -- I mean, the witch -- quietly woke up Hansel and led him into a little room made of more candy. It was actually a cage!

the willies so she didn't dare disobey. Well, to give someone 'the willies' means to make them nervous."

born yesterday and said, 'You know, witch, I'm not myself this morning.' Now when you're 'not yourself,' that means you're not feeling very well, so she said to the witch, 'Can you show me how to light that pilot light?'

kicked the bucket. She croaked in the oven.' Now I don't really know why to 'kick the bucket' would mean to die. To 'croak,' that seems more normal, because when a frog croaks it makes that sound of [throat sound]. So if a frog dies, does the frog croak? Maybe not."

bored out of their minds, so they decided to take a walk in the forest and got lost.

out of it. 'Out of it' means not completely coherent, not really thinking rationally.

tip-top shape -- which means great physical condition -- but after eating so much he felt sick as a dog and felt like he was running a fever. That means to have a fever. He was nervous that he was going to lose his cookies. Now that simply means to vomit. Why cookies, I don't know, but it's very common."

bounce back. Now that means to recover from being sick. He felt really blah. This is a great word. It's what we call an onomatopoeia, which simply is a word that sounds like what it means. So if you feel 'blah,' you have no energy, you just feel really terrible."

go under the knife, which means to have surgery. The last thing he needed was to go see some kind of quack."

run its course, which means just go through its natural progress of being bad, and then finally curing itself.

under the weather too. 'Under the weather' simply means kind of sick. She thought she may even pass out. 'Pass out' simply means to faint. Hansel said, 'Gretel, just mellow out. Take a chill pill.' Because when you're really tense, you're hot, so 'take a chill pill,' relax. Well, early the next morning the old woman -- I mean, the witch -- quietly woke up Hansel and led him into a little room made of more candy. It was actually a cage!

the willies so she didn't dare disobey. Well, to give someone 'the willies' means to make them nervous."

born yesterday and said, 'You know, witch, I'm not myself this morning.' Now when you're 'not yourself,' that means you're not feeling very well, so she said to the witch, 'Can you show me how to light that pilot light?'

kicked the bucket. She croaked in the oven.' Now I don't really know why to 'kick the bucket' would mean to die. To 'croak,' that seems more normal, because when a frog croaks it makes that sound of [throat sound]. So if a frog dies, does the frog croak? Maybe not."

bored out of their minds, so they decided to take a walk in the forest and got lost.

out of it. 'Out of it' means not completely coherent, not really thinking rationally.

tip-top shape -- which means great physical condition -- but after eating so much he felt sick as a dog and felt like he was running a fever. That means to have a fever. He was nervous that he was going to lose his cookies. Now that simply means to vomit. Why cookies, I don't know, but it's very common."

bounce back. Now that means to recover from being sick. He felt really blah. This is a great word. It's what we call an onomatopoeia, which simply is a word that sounds like what it means. So if you feel 'blah,' you have no energy, you just feel really terrible."

go under the knife, which means to have surgery. The last thing he needed was to go see some kind of quack."

run its course, which means just go through its natural progress of being bad, and then finally curing itself.

under the weather too. 'Under the weather' simply means kind of sick. She thought she may even pass out. 'Pass out' simply means to faint. Hansel said, 'Gretel, just mellow out. Take a chill pill.' Because when you're really tense, you're hot, so 'take a chill pill,' relax. Well, early the next morning the old woman -- I mean, the witch -- quietly woke up Hansel and led him into a little room made of more candy. It was actually a cage!

the willies so she didn't dare disobey. Well, to give someone 'the willies' means to make them nervous."

born yesterday and said, 'You know, witch, I'm not myself this morning.' Now when you're 'not yourself,' that means you're not feeling very well, so she said to the witch, 'Can you show me how to light that pilot light?'

kicked the bucket. She croaked in the oven.' Now I don't really know why to 'kick the bucket' would mean to die. To 'croak,' that seems more normal, because when a frog croaks it makes that sound of [throat sound]. So if a frog dies, does the frog croak? Maybe not."