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Hey, in this week's lesson, I'm

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going to teach you five English

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idioms you need to start using

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right now. Are you ready? Well,

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then I'm teacher Tiffany. Let's

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jump right in. English

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idiom number one, blood,

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sweat, and tears.

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I know you're probably looking at me crazy

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right now, but just follow along. Here

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we go. After me, blood,

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sweat, and tears. Excellent.

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Now this idiom, it literally

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just means dedication

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and hard work. Again, dedication

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and hard work. You my

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friend have been dedicated

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to your English journey. You

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my friend have put in the hard

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work to get to this point. The

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very fact that you are able

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to understand what I'm saying, I'm

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speaking in English. I'm not using

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any other language and yet you

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are still able to understand why

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because you have been dedicated. You've

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put in the hard work. You

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have gotten to this point because

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of your blood, sweat, and

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tears. Oh

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yeah. You understand it now, right? Okay.

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Check out these example sentences. Here we go.

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First example sentence. It

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took blood, sweat, and tears for

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him to build his business from

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scratch sentence.

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Number two, the

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athletes put in blood, sweat,

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and tears to win the

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championship. They worked hard. They

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were dedicated and that's how

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they won the championship and

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sentence. Number three, she

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knew success would not come

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easy. So she

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was ready to give her blood,

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sweat, and tears. tears.

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You got it? Excellent.

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Remember, this just means

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dedication and hard

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work. In English, the first

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idiom, blood, sweat, and tears.

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Now don't forget to make

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sure you access the English

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with Tiffany app after

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this lesson to practice in the

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app how to use these idioms

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in real life. All right? There

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are tests and quizzes and practice

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lessons so you don't want to

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miss it. English with Tiffany app.

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All right? So let's go to

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idiom number two. Nose

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to the grindstone.

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Good. Good. Again

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after me. Nose

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to the grindstone.

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Excellent. All right. This

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just means working diligently

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and consistently. You

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see this common theme between

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the first idiom and the

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second idiom, right? Again, working

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diligently and consistently. Once again,

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my friend, your goal

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is to speak English fluently. And again,

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we, you and me, we are working

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together, right? You

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and I are working together to help you

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achieve that English goal this year. Working

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diligently and consistently.

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We have our noses to

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the grindstone. Oh yeah, you

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got it. I saw, I saw the look in your

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eye. You got it. Here we go. Sentence number

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one. He keeps

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his nose to the grindstone

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and never misses a deadline.

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Yes. Good. Sentence number

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two. Success

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requires keeping your nose to

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the grindstone and being focused

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in order for you, my friend

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real quick as an English learner,

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in order for you to experience success

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as you're on this English journey, You

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have to keep your nose to

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the Grindstone. The village it

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be focused you can do it.

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And now sentence number three.

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Said. You want to achieve your

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goals. You must put

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your nose to the Grindstone.

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Isis. Is I said The idioms

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you are learning today in this

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lesson. You will be able

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to use starting now. They are

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political both and they're literally idioms

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that will help you on your

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English journey. right? So he

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gets number two nose to the

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Grindstone. Idiom Number

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Three. Work

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was fingers. So.

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The bone. Again

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after me. Work. One's

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fingers to the bone.

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Goods are all right. It just

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means again the common theme we've

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had with our idioms. It just

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means work extremely hard. It's and

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that tirelessly I wanted to think

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about your mother or maybe you

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all another like sick about how

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a mother. Works. Tirelessly

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to make sure her children are

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said well to make sure our

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children are happy and clean and

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living a good life with. Think

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about of father working hard as

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well to make sure his children

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are happy as taking care of

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parents work tirelessly to make sure

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their children are taking care of.

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Parents work their fingers. To

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the bone in order to protect

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and careful in choosing. Yes,

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Now it's making sense. Excellent

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right? Here are some examples:

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Sentences Number One. The.

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Construction workers had to work

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their fingers to the bone

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to complete the project. Sentence.

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Number Two, She

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worked her fingers to the bone

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to save enough money. For.

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Her dream. Vacation.

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And. Sentenced. Number three. The

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students worked their fingers,

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vowed to prepare. For

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the challenge in exam.

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You got it. Excellent again

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in English this in. Very

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useful. It is worth one

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finger to the bone. Stadium

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number for. Stadium. Number

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four is put in that that.

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Hours. Excellent.

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Idea and put in at

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the hours. Great.

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Job Now! This. Is means

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spend a significant amount

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of time and effort.

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Put. In our for example, you

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know I'm passionate about helping You would

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see your English goals This year. So

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hopefully I'll be honest right

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now At the time I'm

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recording the lesson is six

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forty eight in the morning.

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I've been up working on his

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lesson since five. Thirty this morning.

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I was up before that.

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I like literally started. Since I

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am. I literally started working on

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the lessons at five. Thirty this

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morning. Why? I want to put

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in the hours to help you

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achieve your English goals. What

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does this mean? Again, spend

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a significant. Amount of time

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and effort? you're probably wondering.

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Why are you working so hard to do this for

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me? I.

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Love helping. I

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love with my students those that

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have joined my academy think says

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my life has changed when I

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see that confidence. On their

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faces when I figured english

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man a Macys i get

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up earlier. simply to help

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more english learners finally experience

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that confidence finally speak english

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fluently finally overcome that sounds

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as they'd been experiencing three

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years. Maybe you've been experiencing

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challenges for years as well.

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That is why I put in

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the hours. So I want you

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also put in the hours. You don't have to

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get up this early. I'm an early bird so

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it's okay. But put in the hours to achieve

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your English goal. Here we go. Sentence

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number one. To become

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an expert in your field you

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need to put in

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the hours. Sentence

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number two. If

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you want to succeed in this

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competition you have to put in

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the hours of practice.

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And sentence number three.

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He put in the hours studying

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for the exam and aced

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it. Make sense? Excellent.

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Once again put in

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the hours. Idiom

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number five that you need to start using

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right now. Dig

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deep. Good

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again. Dig deep.

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Excellent. Now remember these five idioms

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I'm teaching you they have a

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common theme working hard putting in

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the work being diligent. Dig

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deep means put

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in extra effort and

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find the strength to

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keep going. Put

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in extra effort and find

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the strength to keep going.

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During story time, don't go

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anywhere, I'm going to tell you a

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story about when I had to dig

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deep. Put in the extra effort to

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keep going. Now check

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out these example sentences for this idiom.

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Sentence number one. The

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team had to dig deep to

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come up with a solution

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to the complex problem. Next

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sentence number two. She

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had to dig deep to find the

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motivation to finish. writing

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her novel. Dig deep, putting

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an extra effort to keep

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going. And sentence

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number three. Despite

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the setbacks, they dug

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deep and managed to achieve

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their goals.

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Makes sense? Yes, again,

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dig deep. Now remember,

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these idioms are going to

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help you finally speak English

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fluently. They're created, this lesson

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was created to give you the tools

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you need to start sounding like

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a native English speaker. I'll talk

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to you in the next lesson. You

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still there? You still there? You

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know what time it is. It's story

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time. Hey, I said it's

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story time. Alright,

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so I told you I would give you

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a story about a time I had to

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dig deep. Now

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there are quite a few times throughout my life where

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I had to dig deep. But

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this situation, which

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many of you have heard me speak about

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before, when I was in Korea studying for

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my test to graduate and

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get my master's degree, right? But

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it was something that I had

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never done before. Having

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to dig so deep. And

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I after I had

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failed my exam two times, it

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had already been a year and I was trying to

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pass the exam. And

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I remember the moment

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I broke down, I

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didn't have any more strength. I

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didn't have any more brain

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power. I didn't have any

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more physical strength, endurance to

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keep going forward. Studying

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literally 13, 14, 16 hours

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a day, it was all overwhelming.

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And I thought I had reached my

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limit. I thought there

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was no way possible I could continue

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at this pace, at this

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rate, just to pass this

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test. And I thought to myself, and

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I'm not a quitter at all, I

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said, Tif, it's okay.

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I mean you have, you've done so many

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amazing things, you worked at NASA, you

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can speak Korean, you've

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dot, dot, dot. And

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I started listing in my mind the things that

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I had already accomplished. And I

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said, Tif, it's okay to let this one go. It's

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okay, you're overwhelmed, you're tired, you

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failed twice, it's alright, people fail,

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Tif. This is the narrative. These

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are the words I was saying

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to myself because I was

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just exhausted. It

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was mentally draining and I didn't

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feel like I had it in me. Now

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I have a family that

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prays for each other, right? And

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my parents were praying for me, my sister was praying

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for me. And I'm a Christian and I believe in

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God and I started praying. I said,

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God, I don't have it in me. And

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in that moment, God

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revealed you can do more than

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you realize. And I said this to

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you in a previous lesson, I think it was last week's lesson,

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I said, you are more capable,

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you, my friend English learner,

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than you realize. And

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in that moment, God revealed that to me. So

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I had to dig deep.

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I continued with the 13, 14 hour days studying

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for this exam. I continued

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pushing through when I got

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exhausted, when I felt bad,

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I pushed through, I dug

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deep. What was

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the result? I finally

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passed the exam. Praise God! I

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hope you've heard that story, I've given that story

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before. Fast

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Forward Now, many years later, it's been...

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Seven years, Six years. Maybe.

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Seven or eight years since I passed my exam.

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And not secure since I passed my exam

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at a time. Minutes recording. And

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I'm so glad that I decided.

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To. Dig deep. Because.

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I don't have any regrets. If

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I hadn't done deep in that moment. I

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definitely would have regretted it. Because

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I know myself. I'm

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not a queer. I'm going to keep going

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even if it's heart. I'm going to

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keep pushing. And

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I know you have that in you as well. But

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I also acknowledge the fact that

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your English journey sometimes it is

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hard, sometimes it's not easy to

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keep. Pushing through yeah was

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your family and it's difficult.

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It's challenging interstate. By

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need to remember. That

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you. Are more capable

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than you realize. Sometimes

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you just have to. Dig.

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Deep. I hope the

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story in case you see you in

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the next lesson.