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How to say “tuck in”

host might want to say something to encourage everybody to start eating the most common thing to say is probably tuck in tuck in tuck in notice my connected speech i'm not sayin...

Course: Food, drinks and cafésSection: British food and drink expressionsSubtitles: en

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eating the

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host

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might want to say something to

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encourage everybody to start eating the

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most common thing to say is probably

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tuck in tuck in

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tuck in notice my connected speech

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i'm not saying tuck in i'm saying tur

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kin the words are joining together tuck

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in

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so this just means go start eating

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another common one is

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dig in dig in again connecting my speech

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dig in dig in dig in or one which my dad

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uses a lot whenever i go to their house

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to eat which is

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come on guys get stuck in get

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stuck in i love this one to get stuck in

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just means get going begin

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start let's go and it's like saying do

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it with energy

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so we could say this to everyone before

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we start eating but we could also say it

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about maybe beginning a project

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maybe we have an important project to do

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and we just we just need to get stuck

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in get started go now when i get stuck

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in to my food

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i'm a fast eater and what i tend to do

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is i scoff

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my food scoff scoff

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so to scoff

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