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okay guys I have some more idioms for

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you so you should know by now that etj

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English is all about giving to the

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people I want to help you and give you

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what you want and I've had so many

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requests for another lesson about idioms

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you love your idioms I think some of you

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are addicted to them it's like a drug

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for some of you so I guess you could

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call me your friendly neighborhood idiom

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dealer let's get straight into it

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because I don't really want to waste any

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time with this video I know some of you

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really need those idioms so let's do it

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so firstly I just want to explain that

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these idioms are daily idioms you could

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use these in many different daily

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situations so you should have them under

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your belt and ready to use whenever you

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can just to sound a bit more interesting

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so let's get on and do the first one I

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use this one a lot I can't get my head

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around now if you can't get your head

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around something it means you can't

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quite understand you can't comprehend

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something let's say you've just won the

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lottery and you still don't really

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believe it it feels weird you you didn't

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you don't know how you have all this

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money it just doesn't make sense

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so you think to yourself but I cannot

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get my head around the fact that I have

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won the lottery that I have all this

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money okay so you can't understand

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something I can't get my head around

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this maths equation it's too complicated

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I can't understand it I can't work it

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out and remember to pronounce around

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with the schwa sound on the a around the

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reason why is because round is the

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stress syllable here meaning that we can

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in some cases relax a vowel before a

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stressed syllable or after a stressed

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syllable and it will become a soirée

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okay around around now if you need to

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get something out of your system I need

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to get it out of my system this is

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usually when you have something that you

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really need to say or something that

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you've been really wanting to do and you

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just need to do it you

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been waiting and you've been it's been

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building inside of you and you need to

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just do it

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okay let's say I've always wanted to

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join a football team and I've always

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been thinking about it oh I really want

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to play football meet some new people

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and all this and I keep thinking about

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it and then one day I just say that's it

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I need to get it out of my system I'm

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going to join a team now today so it's

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something that you need to do or also

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something you need to say if someone's

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really been annoying you

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and finally you tell them you need to

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stop doing this it's really annoying me

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the reason why is because it's been

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building up inside of you it's been

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annoying you for a long time and now you

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need to get it out of your system next

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one I love this one I say this a lot to

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people and it's very very simple it's

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just give it a rest give it a rest

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we're actually dropping the tea on it so

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give it a rest you don't have to do that

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but if you want to sound more natural

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it's probably a good thing to do okay I

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don't recommend dropping the tea all the

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time and I don't recommend pronouncing

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the tea all the time it is good to drop

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it occasionally okay so give it a rest

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give it a rest it rolls off the tongue

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very nicely when you do that now if

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someone needs to give it a rest if you

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say to someone off just give it a rest

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that means they're doing something and

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it's annoying or it's stupid and they

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just need to stop you basically just

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means stop chill out relax stop give it

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a rest okay so someone keeps complaining

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about how dreadful this TV show is we're

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watching TV together my friend and I and

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he keeps complaining about how boring it

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is and it's it's not interesting him I

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could just turn and say to him mate just

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give it a rest

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wish my cat's annoying me she keeps

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making noises and begging for attention

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I could say please give it a rest now if

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something blew me away what do you think

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that means I listened to the new Arctic

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Monkeys album and it blew me away

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this means it was amazing this new album

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this new song this movie anything

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an experience I had it blew me away

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it was fantastic it was shockingly

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amazing it blew me away and it's a great

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way to express your feelings without

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saying yeah it was good you can say it

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blew me away it was amazing

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we're joining the words here together

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Miya way

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okay connected speech here that's what

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we call intrusive sounds me your way it

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blew me away

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sounds nice I couldn't care less very

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very simple it's the same as saying I

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don't care but it means I really don't

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care okay oh my girlfriend and I we just

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got married so I guess now oh she's

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she's my wife and we had the most

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amazing expensive wedding oh we spent so

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much money and then I say you know what

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I couldn't care less maybe I wouldn't

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say that to someone I'd probably say it

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to myself in my brain but if you

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couldn't care less about something it

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just means you don't care at all

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zero zero care in this brain and if I

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said I'm gonna take it with a pinch of

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salt okay take it with a pinch of salt a

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pinch of salt now we know what salt is

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if we have a pinch of salt is when we

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grab a bit of salt and we sprinkle it on

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our food okay if I'm gonna take

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something with a pinch of salt it's

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quite different okay this is an idiom

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idioms aren't supposed to make sense so

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this is really used when we don't

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completely believe something that

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somebody has said perhaps so if somebody

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tells me something I I don't quite

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believe it I would say to my friend

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maybe after our conversation yeah Dave

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told me this but I'll take it with a

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pinch of salt I don't quite a hundred

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percent believe what he said but I'll go

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with it I'll take it with a pinch of

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salt so I'll take it I'll agree to what

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they say but with a pinch of salt maybe

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I won't completely agree or understand

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what they've said to dig yourself a hole

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imagine you have a shovel and you're

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digging into the ground metaphorically

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speaking so this is when we get

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ourselves into a

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an awkward undesirable situation a

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situation we don't want to be this

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happens to me all the time and then we

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start digging and making it worse until

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we're under the ground you could also do

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this with physical things so for example

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if you keep borrowing money from someone

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and then it keeps building up you keep

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getting into more debt you're burying

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yourself you're digging a hole so each

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time you take more money you're going

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deeper you're digging yourself a hole

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okay and we do it in conversation maybe

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you say something wish maybe you

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shouldn't have said or something a bit

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sensitive to someone and then you try to

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explain yourself and explain why you

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said it but it just keeps making it

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worse you're digging a hole I do this

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all the time and it's really awkward

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I'm a very awkward person are you right

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in the comments do you dig yourself a

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hole quite a lot do you have any

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examples of a time you dug yourself a

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hole I'd love to know and finally maybe

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when you've dug yourself enough of a

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hole one final thing could put the nail

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in the coffin okay so to put the nail in

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the coffin I'll give you another way of

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explaining this first imagine you've had

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a really bad day your day started where

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you forgot to eat breakfast you lost

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your keys you were late to work you've

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forgot your lunch your boss shouted at

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you because you did something wrong

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everything is going wrong and then when

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you get home at the end of the day just

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before bed you realize your dog has gone

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to the toilet on your bed so now you

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have no bed to sleep in

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that dog has put the nail in the coffin

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he or she has finished everything just

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finished you off ended all of these

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problems with one big final problem to

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finish so it's like to put the nail in

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the coffin is to do the last thing which

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finishes this a dreadful day or dreadful

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thing that's happened okay

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so our to put the nail in the coffin my

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dog took a poo on my bed great nail is

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quite a difficult word to pronounce

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because we have a diphthong a and then

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we're finishing with a dark L nail now

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intonation plays a big part in all of

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these things as well as of course the

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pronunciation things like the dark L in

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nail these are all really important

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factors of making your idiom sound

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interesting so if you don't know much

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about intonation and you feel like

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people don't really understand you then

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you do have the opportunity to join my

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course at ETJ english comm i really

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would love to help you it puts a big

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smile on my face when people complete my

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course and they have this beautiful

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that's it I hope you enjoyed your idioms

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I hope you feel relaxed now that you've

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had your fix of of the well-needed

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idioms please do give me more ideas if

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you need anything else

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cheers guys

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