Hey everybody, welcome back to Ask Alicia, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them.

Maybe. Let's get to your first question this week. This week's first question comes from

DJ Ibril. I'm not sure if I said that correctly. Hi. Uh, Gibral says dodge a bullet. When and how

can we use this phrase? Yeah, great question. It's a really interesting

expression. First, let's break down what this means and then we'll talk about the situations in

which you can use this expression. So first to dodge a bullet. Let's break this down. First,

the verb is dodge. To dodge something means to get out of the way of something that's moving very

quickly. So if someone throws a ball at you and you move quickly out of the way, you can say you

dodged the ball, right? There's a whole game called dodge ball that's built around this idea.

So to dodge something means to get out of the way of something moving quickly,

something that's probably dangerous. And a bullet is the small piece of metal that comes from a gun.

So when we shoot a gun, the thing that comes out of the gun is called the bullet. So when we say

you dodged a bullet, it sounds like you moved very fast and you got out of the way of a very, very dangerous thing or a very bad thing that was coming at you very quickly.

So this means, this expression means, you escaped from a bad situation or you escaped from a dangerous situation.

So we use this in situations in which something bad was going to happen

probably in the future, but you got out of it. So we can use this expression to talk about

relationships, like maybe you meet somebody that's dangerous or that seems strange or maybe that's

not good for you in the future, or maybe it's about a job where the situation of the job is just not going

well and you get out of that situation. So we use this expression to dodge a bullet to mean

you got out of something before it became worse. So here are some examples. Oh, I'm so glad you

stopped dating that guy. He seemed really, really strange. I think you dodged a bullet.

And, oh my gosh, I'm so glad I left my company last year. They just declared bankruptcy.

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