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Hi guys! Welcome to the video series Idioms We Heard This Week.

Today, I'm sitting down with my husband David

and we're going to talk about some interesting idioms, phrasal verbs, vocabulary words,

that came up that made us go hmm this week.

So to start, I want to talk about some visitors we had.

Tom Kelly, who a lot of you might know, and he's been on this channel quite a bit,

he and his wife Julie came to visit us this past weekend.

They're just so fun! There's such good people.

So anyway, there was a birthday party that we had to go to,

for one of Stoney's friend. Someone turning 2 years old.

and Tom and Julie went out exploring in the neighborhood

Like, should…can we pick up something for dinner or whatever?

And I texted him back: No, we're all set.

And then I thought, oh, all set. That's sort of an interesting phrase

And when I did a little bit of research about it online,

people seem to imply that it was a little bit regional,

that it was more of a New England thing. But…

Yeah. But I grew up in Florida, you grew up in PA,

I didn't feel that it was really a regional thing.

So when you're 'all set', it means you don't need anything,

So what would be another case which you might use or hear the phrase 'all set'?

Yeah, the one that I thought of was when you are at a restaurant,

and the server comes and says 'Would you like anything else?'

I often find myself saying 'Oh no, we're all set.'

And it's, I'm implying we're all set or I might even say:

So it's like 'Nope, we're done, and we're ready to go.'

This is actually reminding me when I was in graduate school,

that the high schoolers were using and that was 'I'm good.'

Like if the high schoolers were at her house, and she would say,

you know, 'Can I get you a soda or whatever?'

and she didn't know, does that mean yes? Or does that mean no?

And I explained it means 'No, it's sort of like I'm all set, I'm good, I don't need anything.'

Okay, another word that jumped out at me this week was,

Stoney has a book with little flaps that you can lift which, of course, he loves

and there are 100 animals to learn in this book and one of them is badger.

And I was thinking about how I actually saw a badger in real life, probably

I was by myself walking in the woods in western Massachusetts and this huge thing

walked across the trail in front of me and I was like:

And I never even knew what it was until I saw Stoney's book.

even and until I was looking at Stoney's book

and there was a picture of it. I was like, 'Oh, it was a badger.'

I kind of know a little bit about otters.

What should I know about badgers? And then,

then I thought about how we use the word badger

And it means like to pester somebody, to keep bothering somebody about something.

I told David that I wanted to make this video,

and I sort of badgered you to cut your hair.

Like, every day, I was like 'Don't forget to cut your hair before Thursday.'

Well, the reason why I badgered him, for the record, is because he kept not doing it.

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