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Understand surprising news

you don't know how you have all this money it just doesn't make sense so you think to yourself but I cannot get my head around the fact that I have won the lottery that I have a...

Course: Idioms for natural speechSection: Useful English idiomsSubtitles: en

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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

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