hello and welcome to a fun expression from english coaching projects and today's expression is to help someone out to help out here's the joke a friend of mine had a baby recently and it made me think you know midwives deserve a lot of respect because they really help a lot of people out to help someone out means to help someone to give them a hand when they need some help but to help someone out could also mean to help someone out from inside somewhere like a baby a midwife helps a baby out why is this joke funny well midwives deserve a lot of respect because they help a lot of babies out thank you for watching have a great day and help someone out if you can.