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Hey, Lindsay, how are you?

Doing good, Michelle.

How are you?

How's everything?

I'm doing well.

Thanks.

Lindsay, have you this is a kind of a personal question?

Have you ever known someone who constantly made you feel small?

Wow, that's a deep question, Michelle.

I know, I know.

No, I guess I had a friend when I was really young who would brag a lot.

and that annoyed me but i'm talking like i was seven years old right

and she was like a bragger what is bragging michelle by

the way uh oh i'm the best at this yeah much better than yeah yeah

and then she would like i would say something i want to do

because i was just like a seven -year -old i was like i want to go to the movies tonight

or i want to do something like i wanted to go skiing

or something you'll never be able to do that like she would do

that so that was actually because she was a naysayer that's what the word a naysayer

so that really triggered me a lot because i don't

tells you you can't do something right and so

that was kind of she was kind of undermining me a lot of times

but she was we were only seven so this is kid stuff right but i still remember it so

yeah yeah you still remember it well

so yeah we are going to talk about this word undermine yes um

and this is a really useful word for that type of situation

that lindsey is talking about and this came up

because we spoke about it in a recent episode on business english over on our other

the business english podcast you got to get on over there

um we we you know business is real life you know

and people work in the business world it's not robots we have to learn how to talk

and build these relationships well oh yeah that's true i can't believe i just said

that um so guys but this was on episode 5 30

which was how not to step on toes at work

that we use this

and this you know this word you know once we add

this to your vocabulary today guys it's going to elevate your It's a really good one to know at the B2C1C2 level.

So let's get into it, Michelle yeah okay yes

so um according to the dictionary um we would define undermine as to make something especially somebody's confidence

or authority gradually weaker

or less effective wow it sounds manipulative in a way doesn't it yeah it's not not great um

so on that business english episode we were talking about undermining someone's authority

which is very common um to say that undermining It's like, you know, someone's your boss, someone, you know, you're a teacher,

whatever it is, and you're just kind of.

not doing what they say or making them look bad in some way yes exactly exactly

so we're going to get deeper into this in just a minute

but i do want to take an important minute to call

out our amazing listeners who took the time michelle to go

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You provide such valuable resources for learners and teachers.

This is a good show for teachers as well, guys.

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Let your listeners know which episode you're going to talk about next week, right?

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All right.

Absolutely.

Thank you guys so much.

Yes.

So when you undermine someone, it doesn't does it have to be super obvious that someone is being undermined?

No, that's the cool thing about this.

Not not the concept, but the word.

It's flexible.

This could be very subtle.

with it was very obvious right kids are very obvious but adults are much more subtle at times

um but we can we can recognize it

and label it as undermining right yes right

and i mean can is it always intentional um does

if someone undermines someone else is it always

that they are you know manipulative manipulative no manipulative is the worst version of it right because it's calculated you're scheming,

but sometimes we're just undermining someone and not realizing we are.

Yeah.

Right.

Like maybe if we're a manager, we are always checking our employees work and we're undermining their confidence because we're not letting them have the independence.

We're making them feel like we don't believe in them.

Right.

But we're just, it's just our own control issues maybe.

Right.

Yes.

Yeah.

Very interesting.

So undermining, it can be calculated.

It can be

can also just disney villain

or something yeah right it can also just be totally innocent you don't realize it

and maybe it needs to be brought to your attention and

and i'd say probably yeah yeah i think most of the time probably michelle it's it's that

that people don't realize they're doing it most people are good

people they don't want to hurt people especially at work

or it's yeah so probably like 75 of the time it's unintentional

but it's good to call it out

and approach the topic with someone right yeah so let's give some more examples could be an other contexts.

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Lindsay, what's an example?

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Well, we can undermine ourselves too, right?

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So I tend to undermine myself when I don't feel confident.

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I say things like, I'm sorry, and I don't know.

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Yeah.

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And there are entire phrases we've done episodes on, you know, phrases to avoid in this area that will cut us down.

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Like we'll degrade kind of our, um, like our authority or people's confidence in what we're saying or what we're doing.

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Right.

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Exactly. So yeah, for sure um

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or here's another example her husband was always undermining her in

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front of her friends he would say everything she was doing

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wrong oh that's horrible geez okay hopefully no one's doing

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that well um the way my friend spoke to me really undermined my confidence i don't know

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that i want to continue to be friends with her yeah um

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or she undermined the teacher by proving her wrong in This could just be an innocent,

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oh, actually, you know, you said this, but actually the calculation is this, right?

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And the teacher might feel a little bit funny, but it wasn't with ill intent, but they might feel that they were undermined.

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Yes, we have the signature phrase, "My feel funny." Right?

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"Feel funny" is your signature phrase.

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"Feel funny." That's my signature.

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Yep.

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And I want to say that's really cultural.

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So some cultures

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allow this sort of undermining of authority especially so in an academic context in some cultures it's probably

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more okay than other cultures.

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Like certain institutions would probably encourage a dialogue back and forth between students and teachers.

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The teachers would challenge, sorry, the students would challenge the teachers.

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But that really depends on the institutional culture, the country culture, the language you're speaking, right?

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It's really different.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's really interesting.

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Yeah.

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The cultural aspect on this.

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And then here I thought of this one, not connection can undermine how you learn a language good one right don't we flip

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that one connection not perfection of course as our listeners know

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yeah michelle for you how does it feel to be undermined Thank you.

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Well, I mean, it doesn't feel great if it feels like, you know, if it's something that like, yeah, if I were being like, let's say I were an example,

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if I were being like totally micromanaged or something like that, that wouldn't feel good.

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If I feel like it's because somebody doesn't have confidence in me, that's not going to feel good.

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you were there do you correct in front of people i i uh it depends on who we're around like

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if we're around like family

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and it's really not going to make a difference in how they see my partner i might

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but if it's different friends that maybe don't know us as well i might avoid

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that might let my partner just tell the story right right yeah right right yeah

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because yeah i remember i read somewhere that said that like with your partner like you shouldn't correct them like

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It's hard because sometimes, okay, if Dan's telling a story and he said, "Oh, we were there back in 2015 or something, and I know it was 2017."

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it's like don't who cares like it doesn't no one no one cares about the the difference

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and but sometimes it's hard to you just want to be like oh no actually

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but you know i try sometimes if there's something like

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that to just say okay this isn't important this has nothing to do with the story it's a minor detail

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and i don't need to correct so yeah like those

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because those types of things can build up if you're constantly yeah no it's actually this it's actually no one wants

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is someone just nitpicking everything right we don't want that uh

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and this can really come alive in different spheres you're talking

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about at home with your relationship with your family we're talking

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about in the academic context maybe a college class at work right

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so this undermine this word can be used in

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so many different contexts michelle yes exactly nice all right

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so yeah so let's talk a bit about other ways to use this word

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or other things we might say if we don't We wanted to actually focus on this main one today.

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We can always do a follow -up, but let's talk about how else you can express this idea.

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Lindsay, what's something you could say?

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So make someone feel small.

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This is what you asked me at the beginning of the show, I think, right?

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Make someone feel small.

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Her constant criticism made him feel small, and this is really bad, right?

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When it gets to a very pathological side of this concept. Or put someone down.

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He didn't mean to put his friend down,

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be honest and sometimes some certain personalities might just like have a compulsive need to tell the truth

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and there's less of a looking at nuances of feelings

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and people just tell the truth so they just have to do

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that so they end up undermining people especially

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if the people don't understand them very well right yeah yeah yeah absolutely

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and then there's just the word hurt which could be useful as well

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so the third time he got a d on a test it really hurt his confidence

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so he you could say it undermined his confidence although i

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would say in the workspace the word hurt becomes a little more emotional right

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so undermine is probably better like

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if you say like my manager hurt me versus my manager

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undermined me it's probably better to go with undermine in the

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workplace would you agree michelle it's just hurt is a little for me is a little squishy a little

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i don't know do you disagree what do you think no no i don't i i think especially if you're saying

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that's like a little much but

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if you're saying oh it hurt like I don't think

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that you I mean we could do a whole episode on the word hurt we've never done that yeah yeah So,

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yeah, there's a lot there's a lot that you could say because sometimes it might be the best word to use.

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But yeah, I see what you're saying here.

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So if you're saying my manager hurt my confidence, that's probably OK.

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Right.

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Because you're not like hurt my heart or hurt me as a person.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Got it. So interesting.

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But we can talk about this more another day.

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So let's do a role play.

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All right, here we go.

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So here in this context, you are complaining to me about our mutual friend.

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Okay.

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Oh, no. Let's see about this mutual friend.

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All right.

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I don't know.

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Sometimes she just makes me feel small.

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She does have a way of talking down to people.

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She's definitely put me down before.

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Maybe we should talk to her.

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She should know that she's heard us both.

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Yeah, and she always undermines me in front of other people, whether she means to or not.

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That's not good.

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That's not, yeah, we gotta figure this out.

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Yeah, that's not something I would, someone I would want to be friends with.

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Right?

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No, no, no, no. For sure not.

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So we started by, you said, I don't know, sometimes she just makes me feel small.

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Yeah, and that's what that's what to me is like, I don't use this one that much.

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It's like a like very like dramatic and to me yeah this is small

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but it is it you you will hear it yeah exactly

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it's very much on the villainous side of um undermine it's really on the like really extreme end

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if someone is calculating and going to these lengths to make someone feel small we said before

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that undermine can be very subtle it can be unintentional right that's the other side.

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This is, this is the opposite side of it.

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Really bad.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Um, and then I said, uh, no, you said she's definitely put me down before.

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So meaning insulted me, right?

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Insulted me.

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Yeah.

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Um, so she should know that she has hurt us both.

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So here's, we are actually talking about the heart, right?

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Hurt you emotionally, right?

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Cause we're not here at work, right?

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It's just friends. to or not.

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So we got to do something about this.

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Really interesting.

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And so a provocative question here, when it comes to the workspace, we're not publishing this on business English.

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This is on all ears English, but it's interesting to think about if you are in a management position, are there any things that you, like if you are undermining someone,

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like you're, if you're micromanaging someone, is it a skill you still need to work on for yourself?

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Like details.

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If you're micromanaging someone else on their attention to details, is it something you're

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to do is a little bit of projection happening yeah yeah that's what i was gonna say interesting

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that can yeah yeah and remember you can check out

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that episode it was 5 30 on business english was how

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not to step out on toes at work all right what

245

should we leave our listeners with today lindsay well i think

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that's kind of it like examining our own way of like what's going on in our own hearts

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if we're like if we seem to be undermining someone is it coming from somewhere That's the interesting thing, right?

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Yeah.

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If we address that, would that go away?

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Would that like undermining someone go away?

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So that's kind of like an internal thought today, I think.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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All right.

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Well, yeah.

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Glad we spoke about this today, Lindsay.

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And yeah, hopefully no one makes you feel small today.

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Same for you, Michelle.

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Yeah.

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I want you to not encounter that at all today.

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We hope for the best.

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Yes.

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Hoping for the best.

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All right, guys.

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Have a great day.

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We'll see you on the next tour.

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All right.

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Bye.

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Take care.

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Bye.

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Bye.

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undermine - （自信や権威を）徐々に弱める
bragging - 自慢すること
naysayer - 否定的な人、批判者
put down - 誰かを貶める、侮辱する
confidence - 自信
micromanaging - 不必要に細かい指導を行う
subtle - 微妙な、巧妙な
perfection - 完璧

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受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	being undermined · can be calculated · be brought
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