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hello everyone welcome back in this

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video we're going to learn a common

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English idiom used by Rachel in season

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10 episode 13 of friends in this episode

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Ross and Rachel are visiting Rachel's

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father in the hospital after he had a

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heart attack When Rachel enters the room

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and sees her father her initial reaction

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is oh my God however as she takes a

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closer look at her father's face she

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becomes even more surprised

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saying oh wow that ear and nose hair

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trimmer I got him was just money down

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the drain now let's talk about the

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meaning of this idiom when something

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goes down the drain or toilet it means

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it is wasted lost or didn't work out

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resulting in disappointment or failure

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it often refers to time effort resources

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or

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opportunities so in this situation

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Rachel uses this idium to say that the

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ear and nose hair trimmer didn't help

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her father at all and the money she

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spent on it was

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wasted oh my

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god oh oh wow that ear and nose hair

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trimmer I got him was just money down

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the drain

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huh let's see more

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examples all our vacation plans went

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down the drain when the airline

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cancelled our

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flights all our hard work is going down

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the drain as the project is being

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cancelled my savings went down the drain

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when I had to pay for unexpected

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repairs thank you for watching this

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