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  • Welcome to English in a minute.

  • If you're broke, you have little or no money.

  • Um, I going to have to help Jonathan or on a pay a bill.

  • Well, Jonathan, I'm doing it.

  • I'm joining the circus.

  • Excuse me.

  • That's right.

  • But not just any circus.

  • The Cirque du so early.

  • You got into Cirque?

  • Well, not yet, but I already told my boss that I'm quitting.

  • And I found someone to move into my apartment monthly on Here I come.

  • Wow.

  • You're really going for broke.

  • When you go for broke, you take a big risk in hopes of having a big success.

  • This phrase comes from gambling.

  • When a player bets all their money at once, If they win, they win big.

  • But if they lose, they really do go broke.

  • And that's English in a minute.

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