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Question: Please explain to me these simple phrases (English is my second language)?
I’ve just started watching “How an Economy grows and Why it doesn’t” on Youtube.
Here are some phrases in the movie that I can not understand, please give me some easy to understand explanations:
1) “Fishing by hand is no bucket of bass”. What is “bucket of bass”?
2) “This is survival, and that’s about all”. What is “that’s about all”
3) “The next day B and C make much sport of A’s invention”. What is “make much sport of”?
4) “A is nobody’s fool”. What is “nobody’s fool”?
5) What does this phrase mean: “Not everybody is cut out for self-deprivation”?
6) “I might want to eat them if I’m ever sick or something happens”. What is ” If I’m ever sick”
7) “man, what a pig-out”. What is “what a pig-out”? 
Why they use “2 fish” instead of “2 fishes”
Thank you very much!
Answer:
Answer by lilmegsx1
I’m English and I’m sorry but I can only help you with a few of the numbers.
4) By nobody’s fool I believe they mean “A” doesn’t do what anyone one wants and nobody controls him.
5) Not everybody can stand to deprive (go without) themselves of something.
7) To “pig out” is a phrase used to describe eating a lot of food sometimes very messily.
I don’t know why we do this, it’s just an unusual grammar rule we use for example we say 2 sheep instead of 2 sheeps.
I really hope I helped 
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Question: UK anglers — explain fishing to us?
This question goes out to UK anglers or someone intimately familiar with fishing in the UK and Europe. James W’s recent question…
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ajs2HdEVpLcOTmb7sx.oZa_ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100422020500AA0VKLi&show=7#profile-info-TeNIStN1aa
…and a few other recent questions about UK gear and techniques, like this one…
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ao94_BuGLLLykOyPbH5XET4eDX1G;_ylv=3?qid=20100421091908AAP18Wp
…have got me really curious about the various ways you Brit’s go fishing. Izaak Walton and J.R. Hartley are prophets to me, and I reverence the UK because it is generally held that modern fly fishing is descended from there, but I have only the most vague understanding of what you guys call coarse fishing, sport fishing, carp fishing, float fishing, the private clubs, how fishing permits work for you, the very long poles, feeders, etc., etc. For example, you politely call carp a “coarse fish,” but you seem to make a distinction between “carp fishing” and “coarse fishing.”
If someone could briefly but clearly explain the various types of fishing practiced in the UK and any other interesting info that might help a Yank understand, I would gladly give you 10 points.
Answer:
Answer by Grand Master Basser®
I’m interested also.