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everyone welcome back in this video

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we're going to learn a common English

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idiom used by phebe in season 9 episode

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3 of friends in this episode Mike and

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Phoebe are talking and Mike feels a bit

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sorry and embarrassed about what

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happened when they first met he likes

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Phoebe and wants to ask her out but he

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becomes a bit nervous and can't finish

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his sentence Phoebe notices he's

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struggling and tells him it's okay

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encouraging to go ahead and ask her out

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so Mike gives it another shot and says

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do you think maybe sometime I could take

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you out Phoebe in a funny way responds

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oh you just caught me off guard yeah

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that would be

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nice now let's talk about the meaning of

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this

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idiom the idiom catch someone off guard

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means to surprise or shock someone by

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doing or saying something unexpected

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often when they are not ready for it

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so Phoebe says caught me off guard when

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Mike asks her out but she's pretending

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to be surprised when she knew he was

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going to do it she's joking and making

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it seem like she didn't expect his

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question even though she encouraged him

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to ask her out just

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before do you think maybe sometime I

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could take you out oh just got me off

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guard

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um let's see more

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examples the interviewer's challenging

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question caught me completely off guard

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I didn't know what to

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say the phone ringing in the middle of

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the night always catches me offg

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guard the sudden change in plans caught

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us off guard and we had to quickly

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