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The last piece of chocolate

I was sneakily eating a piece of chocolate in the kitchen and Dan my husband walked into the kitchen and said did you eat the last piece of chocolate well I had eaten the last p...

Course: Sounding more naturalSection: Four American idiomsSubtitles: en

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day

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I was sneakily eating a piece of

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chocolate in the kitchen and Dan my

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husband walked into the kitchen and said

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did you eat the last piece of chocolate

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well I had eaten the last piece of

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chocolate and I said I plead the fifth

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and this means I don't want to tell you

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but it's true I did eat the last piece

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of chocolate so even though I didn't say

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I ate the last piece yes you are correct

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it is implied when you use this

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expression if you use it with a police

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officer he's gonna be suspicious because

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you're not answering his question but

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this is the legal situation so it's okay

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to use it it doesn't mean yes I was

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drinking alcohol yes I was smoking yes I

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was doing drugs no it doesn't imply that

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in the legal situation but in the

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colloquial situation it does it implies

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yes I did that thing that you are

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accusing me of but I don't want to say

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it the fourth American idiom is to give

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props to someone let me tell you a quick

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story let's imagine that you want to

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study abroad in the US and you'd like to

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get your master's degree at Harvard well

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your goal is to get your master's degree

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but you think why not I'm going to try

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to apply to Harvard because they have a

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great

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