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understand idioms in english and also

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hey even hey guys

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good have you back in the virtual

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studio you were on a on a short break their

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right on vacation

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yeah it's true

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so what does

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it mean to spice up suspect something

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up

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or something and means

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the ad

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wait five minutes with or and

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something more interesting switzer

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for example your clothes want to spice it up

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you can add something interesting

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to it or make it look more

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i think

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he did he might add

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something like colorful to erase the

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canal stands out colorful scarf

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or something or some enough pretty shoes

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or something like that and

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you said that's the podcast will

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knock your socks off or it's a knock your socks

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off with to his english what about me

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something knock your socks off

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it means that it like seizures

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the occasion

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and you also said that you could listen

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to it why you're cutting corners at work what does

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it mean if you cut corners

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when you cut corners you skip

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stats are you are living

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things out that any

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go to the process and

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the same time or save money

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or yeah just to

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be lazy isn't something that

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you say seen as seen as thing i like that you're

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you're being lazy or you're not giving your all that

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exactly a ,

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guys up with your english studies serena

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start this off with something that fun so

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we're going to is the answer is question

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the a situation that

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we would like to be a fly on the wall solid you

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go first cousin yeah so

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for me i think like

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to be a flame war

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with the company that prince the

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lottery scratched cause

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for the i can see the winning

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pod and then hello

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that cause i'm sue

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the store weird will be delivered and then

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by that tickets

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i can we do every the

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, as agree on for

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me i actually was actually just think of one the other day

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that i went to went want to

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concerts couple weekends ago and

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i think and would really like to be fine the wall

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in the like backstage before

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the concert because i'm curious how the

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artist what what she does to warm up

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there like such an amazing voice and

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saw i'm curious you know what does the preparation

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look like before having to go out

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on stage who did you see who did

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you see concert that was rosalia

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was that spanish artist but she's suing string

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like a world tour now so i think she's i

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in a phase or south america now she is an

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incredible singer and performer some tourists like

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for the singing and like also for the how do you get up

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like the energy you know that you need to go

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and i mean anyone who's like does a really

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good concerts yeah they have to just like if so

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much energy to it that sir

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yeah i

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wonder what they do

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we must be a secret to it was

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, secret what's the secret sally after

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listening to us so

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we're going to move in today's main topics all about

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idioms

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sometimes a first off whatever idioms

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so videos

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be taken literally they

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are phrases that described

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the situation was that are

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sort of deeper than you know regular

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inglis can express

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sort of watches expressing an accent

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or an idea it's really less

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complex use of language

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so that would make them man

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vocabulary for learned to a player because

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it is isn't just learning what

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the words mean it's understanding the

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context

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am i think reading is actually really great

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for picking up vocabulary and idioms yes

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because you're seeing it in the context and stuff it's much

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easier that when like really and speaking

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we use them but sometimes a big problem

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that a c is that learners well over years

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idioms arm and a few too many

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of them it sounds really a natural so

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genuine if you think even like in your native language

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you probably aren't using idioms too

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much use them kind of like i don't know it's like

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a spice in when you're cooking

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you're know it's like a little bit and like really give really

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little bit of a kicker a little bit of us some

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nice extra taste but if you do too much

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it ruins the dash right so you have to think about

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idioms like that

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yeah you really wanna get their

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point across if you really want to

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you know emphasized something specific then

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idioms are perfect but i

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think what you said was really true

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picking it up it's it could pick it up

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when you're reading it because they

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can read it again look at how it's used

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here is that of visualize the context

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a lot better than when you're watching it

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it's not easy to pick up when people are speaking

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because it would vary from person to person

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i've i've heard people use idiom oh

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incorrectly and in the in the path

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like they just use of anyway

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may once you are they make new ones they add

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new arm as you say

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it like new versions they modify the

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idiot

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but yeah

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the to quiet while reading

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something we had the one before our

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saying that they're never visual contextual

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we had one before to before a fly on the wall right

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so what does that mean to be a final

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the to be a flammable would be someone

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who is in the room or in a place

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and they're going

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noted so you wouldn't know

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that there there as a perfect example

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because it's you can imagine the really a fly

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on the wall in a room like usually you wouldn't

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even realize it's fair yeah so we both

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gave examples of a place where he likes to be a find

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the was but sometimes it could also be used for example

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if your new in a company

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may be your boss what are you know and this meeting just

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be a find the wall but you don't need say anything

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just kind of observe so you can understand how things

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work her exactly something i really like

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about idioms is often they have

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a historic meaning the can i can tell you how the

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language evolves

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for example an idiom i really like

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is don't throw the baby out with the bathwater which is one actually

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use a lot because it's one

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that means that you're trying to eliminate something

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much something your efforts eliminate that thing you're also

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getting rid of an official parts

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of it which ,

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that like a very visual and you can match in an

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old bath tub maybe the someone like washing their baby

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and then they're going to throw out the dirty water but

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they forget that bathe in terms of atheists are you

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have to keep a good thing and get rid of just a bad

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thing is that are to think the water so here

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relaxing as we often say that we're helping

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you to make english a fun and natural meaningful

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part of your life which is very different from traditional methods

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so in general method

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aren't affected by many people

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have dropped the be with the bathwater this district

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the think that you know that i shouldn't

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ever learned grammar there's like no need to

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learn and grammar but snow like grammar some

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portland is just not the most

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important thing which often traditional methods because

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it's an easy thing to teach and to

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focus too much on so i started explaining

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this one because it has some nice historical

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meaning which i looked up before and

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it comes from a german proverb

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which is that kind met them by that oh shoot

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them which was coined by a german poets

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named thomas mirna so it's interesting

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to see that like oftentimes a lot of

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english for example come out of shakespeare he invented

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so many words and idioms that isn't

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just to see some times where they've idioms come

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from and that can be a good trick also to

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help you to remember it you

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know maybe thera german speaker you might already use

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that ah in in your native

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language so makes it easier to think

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us but even if you're not as kind

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of and might give you an extra sort of imagery and

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, discussing before another really nice pair of idioms

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is that they give you a

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lot of insight into the cooter that it comes

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out of because cafe

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was teaching me some teaching me

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excrescence

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yeah oh so i will

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tell you see them that alone

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the expressions that we usually idioms

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that we use here in in south

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africa or the offering cons idiom tend

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to include

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sure that these are you know plane

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you know maybe century the gone from

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and to give up that some of them didn't

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want him but usually they include animals

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and the one that i shared was

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heikki funny bon which

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literally are directly translates

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to written

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on the tracks as

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it mean for someone

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who has really good social

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skill that a good sense of humor there really

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a cold tax i think

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we have so many i have another one that i could share

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with you people were yawn have to devote

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hunt a paul which means to fit a baboon

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from behind the hill a half of

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and it means what do you want to guess

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what

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such a baboon from behind the hills

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the looking for something

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difficult to find ah ah

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mu almost to

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, talk about problems that haven't

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happened yet yet

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makes sense probably because if you're living

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off the land maybe baboons can be a problem right

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here in cape town here in the quite a problem

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and keep them safe yeah

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and yet so it's it's it's really

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interesting i think if you're learning

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idioms that really does

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you

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little bit of cultural insight as won't

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understand the culture of a particular region

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one that i find really interesting the

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actually hear a lot of learners years his interests

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of use this in cape town or

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in south africa if would be very common thing

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that something is not your cup of tea

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oh yeah yeah yeah season

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opener

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he would you do that a lot sooner

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and american english it's not very common and i think

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this is because if the cultural insight that we don't drink

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much teen i say to drink coffee and

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we don't say something not my cup of coffee ah

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may some i would understand if you say that but we don't

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we just didn't really have an alternate were say

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like we don't like something not

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are thing but we don't have this

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when we don't you so much as idiom not my cup of tea

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but in the uk it's super call him because

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like everyone drinks t so it makes perfect sense

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rent

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yeah i mean speaking

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the to english

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the video

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if the idioms only use in

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the us like what would you say the a

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way for them to learn

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i think it always

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the do with your goals right is always coming back to

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ireland the language so if you're be going

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to go study in the u s or live in the u s

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ben or is it would be to your benefit

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to learn and use idioms that

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americans would years but

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if you're not planning if your goal

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is just that you want to be fluent in english and you want to

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spice up your english as a mediums there's

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no problem with using not my cup of tea americans will still

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will think almost any american with so understand

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that expression it's just that we don't use

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that so much though we

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can you talked about you know that idioms

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very give you insight into the culture that's

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a really good reason to to learn idioms

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ah after that they can can i give

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you some historical reflections

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on the other language evolved

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are what are some other reasons that

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learners might want to focus on learning

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idioms

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so one of the

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best reasons to learn it is

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maybe because you them

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all the time and if you're

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using them or and if you're

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listening to them if you're exposing yourself to

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either watching on tv

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series or movies aren't you tube

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on video and unless it

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can help improve your listening skills and your

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understanding your fluency in

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english when as prepping for today

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is a podcast i was

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oh curious to know like what

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are the idioms that i you've

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all the time because i

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don't even realize that they are idioms this such

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an arm natural

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part of of my day to day language another

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great reason to learn idioms

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is that it is one of the characteristics

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of advanced english

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the the

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really complex the meaning

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it can mean one thing to one person and

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another thing to another person depending on your

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tone the situation it could

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add uma it could add an

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emphasis to add

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so much it adds to it

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the to your your vocabulary

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and and when you communicating

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using it of course as ethan said it's

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that spices you can add too much about garlic

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in

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we believe

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the as much of it and you just gonna

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make it and and

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the correctly it really elevate

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the meaning it it is just yeah

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really

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the pool it's also like if you're gonna take a test

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like i else more cambridge

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for example they tend to test you on

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your knowledge these on on your ability to use

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them and so yeah

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the price whether or not you

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understand them and then if you're doing the speaking

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part of his exams to in might have kind

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of help to bump up your score if you're able to

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naturally include an expression or to

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and medium or to ah into

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you know whatever your speeches about or whatever

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that the conversation was to have is about

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exactly and i think like knowing

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which idioms that she the i think that

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such an important like ,

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overdo six the tv idiom

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super example like super

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example one that i think which he the is every

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cloud has a silver lining

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i love that once we

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see we don't tend to say that one so one

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so will just say like you know the silver lining up

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a dot like shortened to saying you know

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look at a silver lining or the silver lining is

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x y the which means that expression

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means like the positive side of something negative

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yes and so it as kind of like down

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if you lose your job for example you're fired from your job

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but you actually quite miserable that job you to say

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well that silver lining is now you can surfer job

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that your be more passionate about

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the other great point you know you

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knowing how to use them is

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yeah i will help you in any pets than

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any situation

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exactly

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tv series or you're in

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episode in the final parts of

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today's podcast cafe and are going to share some

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of our favorite idioms but

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before we do that we have that shout out to a very

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special podcast listener and up

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years or so today's show that comes from

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linda who says this app is the

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best thing since sliced bread

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i'm extremely grateful to be part

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of this app you efforts are manifest

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one for those who want to sound natural

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in english without any stress

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you gotta give it a try it can be

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a game changer for you and ah

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yeah love from india in

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a nutshell the best up in

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this you

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the word for english thank

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you so much ravenna and it's obvious

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to that within the has been studying

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they're idioms she said that the app

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is the best thing since sliced bread i

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guess it's like someone must have seen that sliced

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bread was just like a fantastic

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inventions practices and every

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other expression that the best thing since sliced bread

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the nothing better since sliced bread so to ever

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the great ones he used to explain something that you're

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absolutely in love with bit

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innovative yeah i guess that

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food and has like the best thing

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with how cool beneficial to man

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timed out that time

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think now

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not having to cut up your bread anymore so

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convenience and

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what does it mean something the game changer

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if it if it's a game changer eds

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it , the way that

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it's something that changes the way that things are done

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the conventional way i

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can change can thing for the better

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yeah it's a similar way to say that something is very

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innovative rights ah but

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it's completely changes the way that you do things

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now so maybe a sliced bread could also

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be a game changer exposed because it

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, helpers waste all that time cutting a bread

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and the mass when it's very

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common one in a nutshell internet so

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briefly in a few words in

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summer and yeah great so

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if you want to shout you shout just like we have

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of into say than give up tries you haven't already

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and if you enjoy it's been it's been

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to me as a five star view to let other learners

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know what you thought so that says

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has they are you ready to share some your favorite

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idioms sure

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okay so

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the pick one i'd like to share his

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speak of the devil so

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because the devil

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and i think have used to be

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longer i mean originally speak

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of the devil and

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the

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the without or something like that but

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, it's just just been shortened to

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just speak of the devil ah

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it means that if you speak you

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talk about someone and then they show up

19:45

if you're a maybe you mentioned someone

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the a could even be someone on television they show

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up in some way or form they call

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you on you don't want someone

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and then suddenly they call you or they sixty or

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so he took what an animal someone famous

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and then there

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the tv or something like that

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exactly that's a really great

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went to the not another great way to say that

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saw that one that you'd that you'd a lot for

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that kind of situation one

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day i put down that i really like is a bucket

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list which is actually a thing and it

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comes from the expression from the idiom to

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kick the bucket which to kick the bucket it's

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kind of a lights humorous way to say to time

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so you wouldn't say that's like oh i'm so sorry that

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so and so kicked the bucket wouldn't is

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not the most i'm that the most

20:29

tactful way to tear

20:31

like give your condolences the someone soon

20:33

but sometimes indifference if you're talking

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about death and a humorous way arm

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as i specify a super common situation

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but it does happen then people might use this

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in alex song so kicked the bucket on

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my bucket list is something that is a list of things

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that you want to do before you kick the bucket so

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it's a it's the like a list of the things you'd

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like to do before you die and it's

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actually funny because ah and parents as the

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made me think of recently i

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stumble upon i'm a blog article

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that i wrote like a my

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own bucket list that list wrote like right after right finished

21:06

university and one of the things the

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things on there was going

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on with going para gliding in rio

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de janeiro brazil and actually

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did that by two years ago so happy

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the took that off my bucket list

21:19

the evening i also had to sitting

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on my bucket list analysis

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, it off this year so it's

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for buses and i think

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what helps what lot the details like up a

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call it a me the bucket list for the the

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things that are totally doable but think that

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you've been delayed maybe

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to be like a spoon this like a flyer

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bucket and something second

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something thought i can the pockets yeah

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you think that is totally doable

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even delaying it it's not

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senate

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you know required to much effort feeds do

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happy that the paper think you know things and try to

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do like one ear or something like that tried

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to do it like on your birthday or try to

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the things that that get you out of your comfort zone yeah

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treat yourself

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and he to the other one that i like is

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to bite the bullet

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really

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about bite the bullet and do

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either just get it

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by the boy and co parasailing the

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providing exactly just

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on do would

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you need to do do what needs to be done

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on the to get something or went

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on with i'm because

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it has to be done so for example

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i have to study for this exam this

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so want to the way to

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but i really need to some been a bite the bullet

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and just paper and with

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i'll it's pretty expensive for example expensive

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have example lot of students who told me like i

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don't want to waste my

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money but i'm going

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to bite the bullet and i'm gonna book

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what an eight i can be really

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good motivator though to study is if you've spent

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the money than is gonna like you know years if

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you haven't about your mind you're like oh god and i

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spent all this money this have the study

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my that bullets

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by that bullet how it through

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the hard get it done

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so my last one i think there's quite

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a humorous one i'm curious where it came from it's pardon

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my french moon and apparently friends

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have very dirty mounts because we

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use that's why when someone like her says

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why talk to you that like in order to excuse or

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or cursing so you might

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say it's like to give warning

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that you're going to say her sword because you feel

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like it's really necessary in this moment so

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that's a really funny expression just because

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it's kinda like it gives insight

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into american perspective of i do

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not purchase american or english speaking perspective

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of the french i don't i'm not like

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so scrupulous about about cursing

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so ah i don't get my keys

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a embarrassed by it but i don't know

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maybe you were if you even

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also say after the fact excuse herself right mack

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maybe it's your with a friend and

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there

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young daughter son is there

23:59

the like they're at an age where they're quite impressionable

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so they might pick up something of a here

24:04

and you might it might just like slowdowns house

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pardon my french i didn't mean to say that yeah

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so we hope that you've had a lot of fun

24:12

when about idioms and that you will inspire

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24:16

spice up your english little bit wisner idioms

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easy to find just like googling lists

24:26

of idioms in english on a the homes or funny

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idioms or funny about whatever

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a idioms to use at work you can you can

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go out and and find someone your own and

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