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Apr 9, 2025
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hello and welcome back to learn English
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with be Global my name is Kristen and
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today we are going to talk about common
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expressions in English so these are just
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some everyday phrases that everybody
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uses on a pretty regular basis so I just
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want to make sure that you know what
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they mean and also how to use them in a
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sentence so that it can help you when
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you're practicing your English with your
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friends and
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family the first expression I would like
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to start with is have a word with when
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you want to have a word with someone it
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means you want to speak with them so you
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may take a coworker or a friend aside
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and say may I have a word with you and
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it's just another way of saying can I
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talk to you or can we have a talk and
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typically if someone says have a word
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with it's just a little bit more serious
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than hey let's
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chat so it means to speak
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to or
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with the next one I wanted to talk about
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is back and forth when we talk about
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going back and forth literally meaning a
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forward and a backward motion what it
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means in the expression is that you just
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can't decide on something so there's a
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lot of exploring all of the options that
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are possible and it keeps you from being
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able to make a decision so you're unable
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to make the decision because you keep
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going back and forth I don't know what
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to get my mom for her birthday I keep
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going back and forth because I know that
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she loves jewelry but she also loves to
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cook so I think about the different
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jewelry she might like and then I think
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about cookbooks that she may want and I
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just I keep going back and forth and I
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can't make a
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decision unable to
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decide exploring all
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options okay the next one is beat around
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the bush now if you were to think about
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it literally you're beating around a
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bush that may be in the ground a bush or
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a plant so when we talk about it as an
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expression what we mean is we are doing
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everything but dealing with the one
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situation that has to be dealt with
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which in this case would be the bush so
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if you're saying beat around the bush
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what you're asking is for someone to not
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go around what needs to happen but be
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more direct if someone is beating around
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the bush they're not telling you exactly
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what is needed they are going around all
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of it and not really getting into the
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point of what it is they're not being
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direct so let's say that I need to ask
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my brother for a favor and maybe I'm a
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little nervous to ask him because I'm
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afraid he's going to say no so I start
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off talking about how grateful I am for
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him as a brother and how much I love him
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in the family and he knows right away
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that I need to ask him something but I'm
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not doing it so he may say stop beating
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around the bush what is it that you want
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and that's his way of saying stop going
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around the question that I know you need
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to ask me because I can tell there's
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something
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there so that's
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avoiding the
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matter and it can be anything whatever
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whatever it is that you're talking about
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if you're beating around the bush you're
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avoiding getting to the direct point
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I'll put Point here
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too now like the back of my hand is an
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interesting saying because we all know
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our bodies this is the same body I have
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had since I was a baby and when they say
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that you know something like the back of
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your hand that's saying that I have
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looked at this hand my whole life so if
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I I know a lot about it I know it like
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the back of my hand I know what the back
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of my hand looks like because I've had
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it forever so it's just a way of saying
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that you really know something that you
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know all the details that you know it in
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and out you are the professional when it
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comes to whatever the subject is that
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you're talking about it so for instance
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if anyone were to come to Southern
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California I was born and raised here so
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if they said well do you know where
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Disney land is or do you know where
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Hollywood is I could say to them I know
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Southern California like the back of my
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hand I have been here my whole life and
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I've traveled all over Southern
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California so I can
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help come on we use come on a lot and it
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can mean a several different things it
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can mean come here it can mean let's
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go and a lot of times you will also see
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it abbreviated like this
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it can mean
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hurry um it can mean all sorts of things
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so typically with come on it's something
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that you would say to somebody if maybe
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you're running late you'd say come on
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let's go we're running late or maybe you
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if someone you feel like is not being
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honest with you you could look at them
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and say come on tell me the truth and
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it's just it's just an added an added
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expression that we typically like to put
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in with with a lot of our other
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Expressions it and it just emphasizes it
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more come on let's go or come on what's
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really happening or come on what what
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are you doing why aren't we haven't we
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left
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yet um take it easy it means exactly
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what it implies to
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relax if someone asks you to take it
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easy that means that they think you're a
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little bit too excited or maybe you've
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been really sick and you're recovering
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and someone may say to you take it easy
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these next few months while you're
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healing so it means to
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relax
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247 24/7 literally means there's 24
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hours a day There's 7 days a week if you
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are doing something 247 that means you
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are doing it all of the time you spend
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all of your time doing that one thing
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and you're doing it 24/7 some people
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work 24/7 or a mother 24/7 most people
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are mothers completely 24/7 and that is
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their job all the time so it's 24 hours
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a day 7 days a
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week give me a hand if you need someone
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to give you a hand you are basically
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basically asking them to help you would
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you be able to help me can you give me a
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hand and you're truly asking them for
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their hand in helping you in whatever
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the situation may be it doesn't
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necessarily mean that it's something
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that they have to use their hand for but
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it means that you need help so you can
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ask anyone can you give me a hand you
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could say it to a stranger if you needed
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to if you needed help with your bicycle
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or if you needed help at the bus stop or
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you can say it to a friend or coworker
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as well can you give me a hand with this
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because I can't do it by myself I need
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some help
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okay asking for
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help and then we have over here sick and
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tired sick and tired means you are
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exhausted you are done with whatever it
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is maybe you are sick and tired of all
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of the traffic there's so much traffic
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it exhausts me I am sick and tired of
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the traffic or maybe you're sick and
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tired of the way you're being treated at
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work or maybe you're sick and tired of
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the weather being cold and you're ready
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for the sun to come back out you can use
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it for just about anything when you're
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expressing just a true dissatisfaction
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with something
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um the term
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broke broke means you have no
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money so if someone were to say hey I
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think we should go to Las Vegas this
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weekend I'm so sorry but I'm broke
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there's no way I could afford a weekend
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in Las Vegas as much as I would like to
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do it I'm completely broke I have no
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money it doesn't add up it doesn't add
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up means that something doesn't make
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sense it doesn't add up so maybe it
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doesn't necessarily have to discuss
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numbers either it could just be
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something happening in your life you
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know
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I had done everything that I needed to
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do to be able to recover from my ankle
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injury I ate all the right Foods I did
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all of the exercises the doctor told me
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to do and yet I'm still in pain and it
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does not seem to be healing it just
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doesn't add up it doesn't make sense it
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doesn't add up that I wouldn't be healed
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by now because I've done everything I'm
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supposed to
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do what a small world that's the way I'm
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talking about coincidence
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just recently I was in Los Angeles and I
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met up with a friend of mine and while I
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was there she was telling me about a
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co-worker of hers who was also in Los
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Angeles and the more we got to talking I
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realized that that cooworker and I have
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actually worked at the same place in
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Orange County which is a strange
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coincidence because Southern California
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has tons of people and not only does she
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know this girl that I know but we used
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to work at the same place in a complete
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other city that's an hour away what a
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small world it just means that the world
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has gotten so much smaller because
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you've found this coincidence with
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people that you
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know that makes it a small world in ages
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in ages ages literally meaning Time and
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Time and Time has gone past so maybe
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there's a movie that came out a long
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time ago I know that Star Wars is very
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popular and it came out in
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1977 I haven't seen that movie in ages I
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have been wanting to see it and it's
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been so long so you can say it's been
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ages since I've seen that
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movie grab a bite so if you want to get
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some food with somebody you can say
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would you like to go out to eat or would
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you like to go to lunch or often times
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people will say do you want to grab a
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bite and that just means you're going to
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go get
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food on second thought truly means
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you're having a second thought so maybe
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when I was talking about my mother
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earlier and I was going back and forth
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about what to get her for her birthday I
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was thinking about the jewelry and I was
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also thinking about the cooking books
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and I kept going back and forth between
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those two but on second thought she
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really loves to travel so I think that
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it would be best if I took her on a trip
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and that would be the best choice for me
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to make for her birthday because on
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second thought when I think about it
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again when I rethink the situation I
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realize that travel is really the thing
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she loves the most so that would be the
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best gift for
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her and our last one is dying to so this
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can be said it does not mean literally
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dying but it means that it's something
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that's very important to you so maybe I
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could say I have been dying dying to go
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to London and that means that I would
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really love to go to London one day or
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people might say I have been dying to
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try that new restaurant or I have been
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dying to get those shoes it just means
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that you want something really
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badly okay so now that we've gone
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through the these 16 Expressions I just
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want to take you through a quick little
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story using all of them to help you
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practice once
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again so we're going to start with I was
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at work and we have been working on this
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project for a while now and I'm very
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excited about this project but they
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haven't chosen the leader so I wanted to
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go up to my manager to talk to him so
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the first thing I did was I walked up to
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him and said may I have a word with with
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you and I told him I would like to talk
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to you about the possibility of this
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project that we're working on and who is
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going to lead it we have been going back
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and forth on who should be in charge
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we've talked about this person we've
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talked about this person and then we've
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also talked about a few other people as
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well and I feel like with all of the
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back and forth we're not able to move
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forward on the project
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he said well stop beating around the
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bush what is it that you want to ask me
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and I told him you know this project is
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very special to me and I know it like
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the back of my hand I know everything
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about it and I feel like I would be the
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best person to be in charge it's really
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important to me please give me this
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chance he said come on take it
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easy which means relax we don't need to
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worry about this project right now
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there's no reason for us to start
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working on it 24/7 because we don't have
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to have the project finished for another
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six months so if you can give me a hand
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with this other project that we're
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working on then we can work together on
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that project when it comes up and I will
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let you be in
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charge so I was on the phone with my
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friend and I was just telling her about
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how difficult it has been at work I'm
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sick and tired of all of the back and
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forth and the beating around the bush
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and not really knowing what project is
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most
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important and I'm also sick and tired of
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being broke I don't have any money yet I
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work all the time and it just doesn't
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add up for as much as I work I should
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have more money I shouldn't be
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broke so I was talking to her and she
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completely understood where I was coming
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from and she told me that she had
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earlier ran into a friend of hers and it
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just so happens that she is also someone
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that I went to elementary school with
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and when I heard this I said what a
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small world I have not seen Stephanie in
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ages it has been so long since I've seen
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Stephanie I can't believe that you ran
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into her and that we go to elementary
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school together
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and she at that point said well why
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don't we grab a bite at that new Diner
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that just opened up on Second Street and
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I said you know what that is a great
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idea I love that Diner I think it would
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be fantastic if we all met up
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there and then I said you know what on
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second thought I have been dying to try
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this brand new restaurant that opened up
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right on the beach how do you what do
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you think about maybe going there
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instead
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so I hope that that story has helped you
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be able to apply these Expressions
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please study this lesson again it will
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help you and feel free to ask any
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