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Alright, welcome back to Weekly Words. My name is Alisha, and today we're going to
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talk about body idioms. Yeah! Let’s start.
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‘Back to back’ is the first one. ‘Back to back’ means one right after another.
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In a sentence; “I have two meetings back to back today, I am so busy”.
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The next idiom is ‘can't stomach’. Nice job, stomach.
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‘Can't stomach’ means that you don't like something. Used to refer to food or just
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something that's gross. Something that's really gross. “I can't stomach the thought
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of eating that old pie.” “I can't stomach the thought of working with that guy another
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day, he's terrible. Stevens!”
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Next phrase is ‘eyes are bigger than one's stomach’.
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When you're at the supermarket, or when you're at a restaurant and you see a picture
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of food, or you see a food item in front of you, and you think to yourself, “That looks
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really good. I'm going to get that/I'm going to buy that.” Then it comes to you
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and you realize you can't eat it all. This is the phrase that we use; “My eyes were
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bigger than my stomach. I saw it and it looked delicious, but I can’t put all of that food
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in my stomach”. “I ordered a blooming onion one time and I couldn't eat it all.
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My eyes were bigger than my stomach.”
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Next is ‘a pain in the neck’. A pain in the neck. There are a few other
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variations on other body parts that you might be able to use with this, ‘a pain in the…’
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something else. ‘Pain in the neck’ is something that's troublesome, or something
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that you don't want to have to worry about. Something that bothers you, that's trouble.
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In a sentence, “I have so many reports that I need to catch up on this week, it's a
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real pain in the neck”. That's a true story actually; I have to write a bunch of
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reports today.
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To ‘pull one's own weight’ is the next one.
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‘To pull your weight’ means to do the job that you're assigned to do. You have
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something that you need to be responsible for, so you need to make sure you do it.
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In a sentence, “Steven didn't pull his weight at the meeting last week. I'm afraid
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we're going to have to let him go”. “Pull your weight Stevens! You're bringing us
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down.”
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The next is the end. This was body idioms this week, so try out a few of these and we'll
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see you again next time for more fun stuff. Bye!