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Hey there, Aubrey.
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What's going on today?
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How you doing?
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Oh, today's a wonderful day.
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I'm so excited.
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And I can't wait to hear your answer to this question.
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Lindsay, have you ever really bitten someone's head off?
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Oh, man.
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I don't know if I'm not sure if this would qualify as biting someone's head off, because I feel like when you bite someone's head off, it's out of the blue.
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It's unexpected.
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It's like more than you would think.
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It's kind of coming more from you.
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But I was in a verbal altercation, I guess you could say, just an argument with someone.
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There's very few people that I don't like, but this particular person I do not like.
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And I came head to head with her verbally about a month ago when I was out in California.
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And I would say I was assertive.
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I stood my ground and I asked her to leave.
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It wasn't exactly biting someone's head off, but Oh, I love that you're making the distinction here because I very much agree.
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You held your ground.
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You were assertive.
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There was an altercation, but I agree.
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I wouldn't call that biting someone's head off because this is so much more extreme.
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Like you have to really yell at someone, snap at someone.
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There needs to be really elevated emotions to where later you might say, I should have handled that more calmly maybe.
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Whereas it sounds like your interaction with this woman, it sounds like you stayed pretty calm and were reasonable.
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Right.
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Usually it's more like she bit our heads off like she
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was like she was kind of attacking my brother actually
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and then i started talking to her i was just like
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if you're not happy with this leaf you know just leave
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and so so the difference is with biting someone's head off it's always one person that's out of sync
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and that one person's acting out the other person is usually just taking it in being the victim
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or not really responding or something right absolutely we are going to share more about this idiom
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because i think there's so much here that's really interesting we use it to exaggerate even
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if something like wasn't that bad you might be like she really bit my head off right
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because you're sharing the story and exaggerating so we're going to dive into it
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and a few related idioms in english i love these i use them
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when i'm telling a story i think it adds a lot of interest it makes it more fun
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and interesting yeah
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and you know this happens to all of us at some point someone bites your head off
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or you bite someone else's head off.
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We're going to encounter this kind of moment.
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It's such a violent issue, right?
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We'll get into it, but of course it's not literal.
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Imagine.
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All right.
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Where do we start today then, Aubrey?
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Yeah.
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So we first want to share that this is part two of a series and part one was Saturday, June 15th.
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It was called four idioms to use when you see red
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and these were idioms about just
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when you get extremely anger angry you might be able to
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hold it in you might not react um today's idioms are related
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but they're more about when you don't hold it in you get super angry
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and you lash out or someone lashes out at you we're going to share these idioms
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but make sure to scroll up so you don't miss part one
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so we're really turning up the heat with these summer saturday episodes right i'll bring all about anger
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and showing how it you know but they do say actually i have heard statistics
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that um violence increases in the summer i have heard that
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because of hot weather or maybe it's what i heard was more hot hotter climates
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that can happen um
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because i do think there's something about heat like physical weather heat heat in the air
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that can make it easier to kind of lose it in a sense interesting oh i'm so curious about that.
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And it could just be discomfort.
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If someone is uncomfortably hot, they're already going to be a little bit maybe annoyed or frustrated and that might come out in what they say.
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I mean, do you see that in yourself?
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I do.
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I see that in myself.
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I'm more likely to just sort of be less patient in
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a hot summer evening than I am in like a cool winter.
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It's just, there's a difference.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Absolutely.
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So yes, we do this, right?
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We might be yelling or criticizing someone heatedly.
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I love this adverb heatedly.
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It means like when we say something's with heat and we're talking about emotion, it just means elevated, right?
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And especially heatedly, we're talking about with anger.
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You wouldn't say something nicely heatedly.
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Yes, for sure. For sure.
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So that was a bonus phrase for today, right, Aubrey?
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A little bonus for our listeners.
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Write that one down.
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And by the way, if you're consuming this episode in the app, check it out.
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Most of our episodes are transcribed right inside the app.
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So you'll be able to tap on words and save them to your personal power list.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Then you don't have to write it down.
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You can just click it.
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You get an example sentence, a definition. So easy.
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Yes.
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Good stuff.
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Let's start with number one, Aubrey.
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What is it?
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Yeah.
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So this is a phrasal verb.
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I used it a moment ago, lash out, because it's just so perfect.
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Like you might say her client lashed out at her
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when she didn't file the paperwork on time it means you are angrily either yelling at someone or snapping at someone.
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We say that, but it's definitely lash out.
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It's like you said, Lindsay, it's sort of out of nowhere.
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It's out of nowhere.
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Maybe it built up to the person that's being lashed out at, it feels like very extreme and sort of out of nowhere.
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Unexpected.
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Maybe they don't know it's been building up.
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I mean, this is why we have to talk about our feelings
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and we experience them because so we're not bottling them up.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And that's when we lash out.
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I feel this in myself.
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I let a lot of things go and I'm just like, it's not worth it, but I'm building up emotion, maybe resentment.
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And then I lash out at someone.
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Someone's going to bear the bread to me.
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Yeah.
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We're all guilty of that in some way.
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Right.
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Uh, lash out.
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So the next example, I've seen a few celebrities lash out at paparazzi.
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Ooh, yeah.
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I mean, yeah, we hear those stories.
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Someone grabs the camera and smashes it.
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Right.
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This is coming from this anger, right?
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It's a, an, an action they do heatedly they're upset maybe
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if they weren't angry they wouldn't do that they would speak more kindly calmly
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but you get angry you get emotional
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and then you lash out yeah it makes me think a little bit of
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because we've been watching the crown
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and you know there's a narrative in maybe it's true i
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don't i don't really know i'm not on the inside of the royal family of course
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but you know with princess diana and everything
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that happened with the paparazzi chasing her
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and then for the boys in the family just being
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so angry at paparazzi over
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so many years yeah absolutely i would imagine i can't imagine
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what that's like i can't imagine no i can't either this is why i've i'm very open about
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that i wouldn't want to be famous i think i would lash out at paparazzi
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if they were following me around or my children
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if i felt my children were threatened i could see myself lashing out
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so it's better
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that no one knows me mama bear would come out as we say absolutely right we don't need that okay
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if you guys heard the first episode of this series you
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heard a crazy story about me lashing out at a mom
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at soccer oh yeah it's a good story go check out
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that first episode
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so you don't miss it what's the status of your relationship with her now are you guys okay
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or no i had i hadn't met her then
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and i still haven't met her now i just yelled at her across
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maybe worse maybe better i don't know okay interesting
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and this one's good number two tear into someone i like
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it yeah yes very similar meaning to lash out we use it a ton you might say
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that coach was really tearing into his team right
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and we've all seen this on the sidelines
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and the coach is just yelling really heatedly angrily then we
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would say this wow he's really tearing into them yeah the coach is like bright red
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and looks like his head is about to explode
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tears off his tie and throws it i feel like basketball coaches in the u .s are notorious for this.
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The most famous example would be Bobby Knight, right?
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From Indianapolis, back from the 90s.
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I don't know anything about basketball, but I know Bobby Knight was famous for, I think, like throwing things and at his team and just really, really lost it so many times.
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ASU's coach, basketball coach does it now.
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I couldn't tell you his name, but I find myself hardly watching the game.
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I'm just watching him because he's getting so heated and upset.
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He'll take off his tie and throw it.
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He's stomping around.
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It's so entertaining i had a let's see i was in the band in middle school
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and i had a what do you call it like a um he was the conductor of the band
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or the kind of our teacher band teacher he would just lose it sometimes he would get
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so upset especially at the drums all the all the drummers up there would mess up the
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and he would start throwing things at us he was crazy
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yeah it was wild it's like oh should you be a
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teacher you have to have such patience as a teacher
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when a teacher lashes out
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and loses their temper i'm always kind of like oh no
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you maybe chose the wrong profession you really need to have incredible patience yeah totally totally okay
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so then another example she really tore into me when i thought
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when she thought i hit her car yes
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and i have seen this i have seen like someone you know you think there's an accident
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and then they like tearing like what are you whether you did hit the car
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or not road rage right we see this a lot someone will tear into someone else oh for sure
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and then they have their camera filming oh my god just like people lose it
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so easily it's crazy all right number three bite someone's head
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off this is what we just talked about yes we talked
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about this one at the top of the episode right
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and this is very extreme like you said we might use
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it to exaggerate right yeah okay you don't have to bite my head off
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when someone really was just like no i don't want to do
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that like maybe they weren't
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that extreme this one i don't know about you lindsay i
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use this a lot to exaggerate what's how someone else what
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they were saying to let them know i still feel like they're either unreasonable
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or a little little too heated maybe oh okay
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so just kind of pushing them back a little letting them
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know they're a little out of line right yeah exactly
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and maybe they're maybe they weren't really biting my head off
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but whatever was happening it was enough elevated escalated heated that i'm like okay, let's step back.
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Let's take a chill pill.
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Sometimes you have to send people signals.
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right?
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You have to send signals and maybe you need to exaggerate for them to get
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that message because people just see the stars when they're angry.
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Exactly.
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They see red, like we taught in that previous episode.
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Absolutely.
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And you might need to kind of calm them down a little.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And then he bit my head off when I was late to the meeting.
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So this would be even worse in a business context, right?
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And this happens, right?
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And when you're telling the story to someone at work, this might be how you said it.
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Like, wow, he really bit my head off when I was late.
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And maybe it was just like a firm rebuke, but this is how it felt.
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And when you tell the story, this is how you're going to say it.
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Interesting.
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So it can happen at the workplace and it can happen in our social lives, in our community, things like that.
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Absolutely.
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Okay.
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Ooh, this next one feels a little bit more sinister, right?
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What is this?
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Yes, it's rake someone over the coals.
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I grew up saying this.
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What about you, Lindsay?
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Have you heard this?
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She really raked me over the coals.
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I guess this kind of thing didn't happen to me that much.
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So I don't know.
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I didn't say it that much, but I know it.
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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Right.
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We do say it.
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I would say the other three we've taught are a little more common.
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I think because like you said, Lindsay, this feels more extreme.
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Extreme.
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I don't know that I would say this to, you know, I wouldn't say to someone, okay, don't rake me over the coals.
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No. Right.
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I would say, don't bite my head off.
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So what would be an example of, of, you know, where that would make sense?
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What would someone do?
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You might say it if you're telling a story and saying that someone yelled at you or was something extreme.
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Right.
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And this is usually more about a personal critique or criticism.
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Okay.
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It wouldn't be so much about like, they hit my car.
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She really raked me over the coals.
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It's more like she told me all of the things wrong with me
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and all the things she thinks i'm not doing that's what we mean
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when we say we're being raked over the coals yeah it
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also could have an element of public embarrassment right maybe she did
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that in front of all your closest friends
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and family too right yes certainly possible it could it could be just one person though
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if someone i'm alone with someone
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and they're telling me all the things maybe all the ways
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i'm a bad parent i'd be like wow she really raked me over the coals
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so it involves a lot of stuff they're throwing at you right yeah i think
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so it has to sort of be like multiple critiques yeah whether they you feel like they're earned
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or not yes yes
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or here's another sample sentence i didn't mean to rake her over the coals
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but i was pretty upset yeah yeah so you might say this about yourself
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if you had this altercation and you like imagine lindsay
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that experience you had with this yeah woman yeah
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if you then went off to say you have done this
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and this and you are this and this
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and there's sort of you know multiple personal attacks or personal critiques that are heated, then she could go home and be like, wow, that Lindsay lady really raked me over the coal.
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You didn't do that.
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You did not do that.
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No, no. It was enough just to ask her to leave.
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Please go home.
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Yeah.
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This is the better choice.
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You took the high road.
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Very good.
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All right.
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Cool.
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Aubrey, let's go into a role play, shall we?
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Let's do it.
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Yes.
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So in this role play, I'm telling you about my daughter's teacher.
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Ready?
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Perfect.
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Yes.
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My daughter is really struggling with her teacher i guess he
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lashes out at the students really often oh no you have to have
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so much patience as a high school teacher for sure i
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guess whenever someone is late to class he really tears into
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them i feel bad for those students i had a teacher in high school
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that bit my head off once
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and it was awful she said yesterday he really raked her
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over the coals in front of the whole class oh that's hard yeah that's hard
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so terrible i have had my children have had teachers like this unfortunately maybe not this extreme like
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if he raked her over the coals in front of the
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class he would be like you know telling her you're always late
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and your assignments are terrible and that's just worst case scenario
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because it's very extreme yeah no that's really bad it's especially hard for kids
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when they're just you know maybe the teacher says it in front of friends
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and they're they're just trying to hide and blend in they do not want
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that public yeah criticism or ostracism which is like
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when they then are getting sort of left out
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or excluded right first case scenario for a teenager for sure
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and so you first we used lashes out
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so you said my daughter's really struggling with her teacher i
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guess he lashes out at the students really often oh yeah
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which does happen right that's just like angrily yelling criticizing it's
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pretty extreme it's not like you know he reprimands the this is that's very different
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that sounds very calm
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and collected he's letting them know these behaviors need to change
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lashing out is not common collected right this means he has lost his temper
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and is yelling yes 100 and then what'd you say aubrey yes
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and then i said yeah if someone's late he really tears into them
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and this is like if someone's late he comes in
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and he's like why are you always late what is happening
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this is going to be a conversation with the administrator like this would be
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that right he's tearing into them he's yelling at them about something this is not a calm interaction and then I said, oh, I feel bad for these students.
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I had a teacher in high school that bit my head off once and it was awful.
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We can all relate.
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Like I shared the story about my band teacher.
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know and usually it's about the teacher about them not having control of their emotions
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exactly right because teenagers yeah they're gonna try to get your goat i'm gonna say
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that they're gonna try and upset you they're gonna try
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and create this interaction they're teasing so
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if the teacher doesn't have patience this is going to happen
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they're teasing they're testing right there's a lot of testing
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that kids do for sure trying to get the other students to laugh it's just inevitable
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and then you said she said yesterday he really raked her
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over the coals in front of the whole class right nice
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yep worst case scenario that's a very extreme i love all
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of these i it is really a fun connection moment as
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a takeaway here to use these to exaggerate yeah like maybe it wasn't
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that extreme it can get you in trouble right someone might
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be like okay now wait what did they actually say
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because you're making it feel really extreme maybe you might have to admit like okay it wasn't
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that bad but it really i really hated it
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or whatever oh my god yeah i love this this is
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so cool aubrey what's the takeaway today i mean i like
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that in the last few you know weekends we've been really
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going through it's not all always perfect connection there are moments of conflict in life that's normal
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and how can we go
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and talk about it later how can we take solace in our friends
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and share experiences these are the words to do it right
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i agree i love this right we we all try to keep our cool
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but everyone has their moments like you said and discussing
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when this happens admitting faults is a great way to deepen
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connections in english love it glad we talked about this today aubrey guys go back and get
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that other episode from last weekend to complete this series this
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will be the final episode in this series aubrey absolutely
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and really we when we talked about keeping your cool recently that's very related as well
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so yes be sure you're following here guys for all of
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these great episodes yes close the loop on the series
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and make sure you hit follow on all ears english good
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stuff aubrey i'll talk to you soon have a Have a good one.
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Awesome.
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Thanks.
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You too.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Kontext & Hintergrund
Die Video-Dialoge handeln von alltäglichen Situationen, in denen Wut ausbricht – und wie Englisch-Sprechende das mit Idiomen beschreiben. Zwei Gesprächspartner*innen diskutieren über extreme Reaktionen, wie plötzliches Schreien oder Kritik, und erklären, was diese Redewendungen wirklich bedeuten. Das Ganze ist lebendig und nah an der realen Sprache, was es perfekt macht, um Englisch sprechen üben zu können.
Top 3 Phrasen für den täglichen Gebrauch
- "Lash out": Bedeutet, plötzlich wütend zu reagieren – oft unvorhergesehen. Beispiel: "Her client lashed out at her when she didn't file the paperwork on time."
- "Tear into someone": Ähnlich wie "lash out", aber mit mehr Intensität. Ein Trainer, der sein Team heftig anschreit? "The coach was really tearing into his team."
- "Bite someone's head off": Extremes, übersteigertes Schreien. Manchmal wird es auch übertrieben verwendet: "You don't have to bite my head off!"
Schritt-für-Schritt Shadowing-Guide
Um diese Phrasen zu beherrschen, probiere Englisch Shadowing: 1. Höre den Dialog langsam und aufmerksam an. Achte auf die Intonation bei wütenden Reaktionen. 2. Wiederhole jede Phrase sofort nach dem Sprecher*in – versuche, Tempo und Betonung zu kopieren. 3. Übe in Sätzen: Nimm ein Beispiel und passe es an (z. B. "My brother lashed out at me when I forgot his birthday"). 4. Mache Pausen, um die Bedeutung zu verinnerlichen. So lernst du nicht nur die Wörter, sondern auch deren Verwendung in der Praxis.
Mit shadow speak wird die Sprache lebendig – und du gewinnst Selbstvertrauen, diese Phrasen in echten Situationen zu verwenden!
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | have heard · I've seen · haven't met |
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | be really elevated · was called · are transcribed |
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