0:00Hi everyone, welcome to this new French video.
0:05I hope you are well and that you are comfortable.
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0:15Today, we're going to see a French expression in a few minutes.
0:21This expression is "être à l'ouest".
0:24West, you heard right, it refers to the cardinal point.
0:30North, south, east, west. The cardinal points.
0:34When you say you are in the west, you are not physically facing west, you don't need
0:41to take a compass to verify that you are in the west.
0:46It is an expression that means that we are a little in the moon.
0:52We are a little in our thoughts, we are not in phase with reality.
0:57If you are physically present, in your head you are a little elsewhere.
1:02It is therefore a familiar expression.
1:05It is mainly used in two contexts.
1:08The first one, as I was saying, is when you are in your thoughts, you are not
1:13focused on the situation you are experiencing.
1:17We're awake, but we're kind of dreaming.
1:19For example, if you're in a meeting at
1:21work and I'm sure it's already happened to you.
1:24It used to happen to me all the time.
1:26You're in that meeting and you start to go
1:28off into your thoughts and you don't pay attention to what's going on.
1:32And someone will ask you "ah and you, what do you think?
1:36" Then you'll be forced to say that you
1:39weren't paying attention, that you weren't paying attention and ask to repeat.
1:44And your colleague might say you're
1:46completely out of it or you look a bit out of it.
1:50Of course, as I said, it's a pretty colloquial expression, so it also depends
1:55on your work context, but in any case, you were out of it.
2:00That's for sure. Like I said, you weren't focused.
2:03You weren't paying attention. It can also be used to refer to someone
2:09who is off the mark, to use another very familiar expression.
2:14When someone is out of touch or out of the
2:17loop, it can be used to say that someone is out of touch.
2:20So it's not necessarily a specific time.
2:23As I was saying, someone who is in his or
2:26her own thoughts is usually someone who is not very aware of realities.
2:30For example, if someone says to me I would
2:33like to buy a 100 square meter apartment in Paris, I have a budget of 200,000
2:39euros, so I could tell him or her that you are completely out of touch.
2:44These prices are not at all consistent with reality.
2:48He is out of touch with reality. That's it for this expression.
2:54I hope you liked it, that you understood it well.
2:57Let me know in the comments if there are
2:59any other French expressions that you would like me to explain.
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