KR EN Hit the books English Idioms in Use

come with me let's hit the books hello everyone my name is spencer and i'm here to teach you english today i'm going to teach you very common american english idiom that idiom is hit the books you're going to learn how to use this idiom some similar expressions and where this idiom comes from so make sure you like subscribe turn on notifications and let's begin today's american english idiom is hit the books hit the books hit the books this just means to study hard so you can just say i'm going to study hard but this is really common expression used in daily conversation you can use instead and you'll sound lot more like natural native english speaker related expression is cram cram so the difference with cram is that it's right before the test hit the books could be at any time whereas cram is short amount of time right before something is due or right before test so it's studying lot in short period of time before something so you could say need to hit the books need to cram and there's slight difference between the two this idiom unfortunately doesn't have clear origin but it does seem like it's possibly related to the older expression hit the trails which american cowboys used to say when they were going to start their journey trail is road dirt road so hit the trails means begin going down the road to begin the journey so here as well hit the books means to start and book means study in this case so to start studying where are you headed i'm going to the library have an exam tomorrow my god totally forgot about that come with me let's hit the books thank you so much for watching to the end hope this video is helpful in being able to use this common english idiom hit the books and if you didn't like subscribe turn on notifications and i'll see you in the next video bye