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Welcome to English at the movies where we teach you American English.
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Heard at the movies are saying today is God our work cut out for us from the film Norm of the North.
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This movie is about a polar bear and his animal friends.
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They go to New York City and try to stop a rich man from building on their home in the Arctic.
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Listen for the phrase got our work cut out for us.
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We've really got our work cut out for us.
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Look, a bear like me doing a city like this.
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I'm going to be so rich when I sell up, the Arctic is gonna be condos, shopping malls.
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That's my So what do you think got our work cut out for us?
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Means is it This will take a lot of work.
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Four, our work will be cut.
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We've really got our work cut out for us.
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I'm going to be so rich when I sell up.
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The Arctic is gonna be condos shopping malls.
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That's my home.
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Got our work cut out for us means that this will take a lot of work.
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After Norm arrives in New York City.
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He understands he and his friends have a big job to do.
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Defeating the rich man's attempt to destroy their Arctic home will be hard.
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If you start a big new project, you also may say you have your work cut out for you.