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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 70. The noun phrase today is " the

  • third degree. " Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If someone gives another

  • person the third degree, they give someone a long and detailed

  • period of questions, often in an intimidating way. You know, in a way that it kind

  • of is making feel uncomfortable or causing you fear. Something like that.

  • That's the way we usually say the third degree. All right. Let's continue. The original

  • third degree comes from the police. When we see police give an intense and

  • thorough line of questioning to a possible suspect in order to get

  • information or a possible confession. You know, you see this in a lot of these

  • police shows or movies. Sometimes you see two policemen. Sometimes they play good

  • cop, bad cop. You know one tries to be nice and the other one tries to be the

  • mean guy. And you're going to go away forever. You know , Whatever but anyway , if

  • they give them a lot of hard and difficult questions. You know, very

  • intense ones. This is we say the third degree. So that's where it originally

  • comes from. But sometimes we use it in other situations usually in a humorous

  • way, comparing it back to the way the police do it. So let's look at number two.

  • Anytime I bring home a new boyfriend for the first time, my father always gives

  • him the third degree. You know , so what's your name ? Where do you come from ? What

  • are you studying ? What are your parents do ? How much money do they make ? What are

  • you what do you plan on doing in the future > What do you want to become ?Where

  • are you going go to school ? And you know, blah, blah, blah. But anyway usually a lot

  • of tough questions. You know, you know , be shooting one after another and then you

  • know if I say well it's giving him the third degree. Okay. Good.

  • Let's look at number three. If I break my curfew. Yeah well you know if there's

  • still some teenagers that have a curfew. You know,

  • curfew if that's that's the hour that you're supposed to be home by. Like if

  • your parents told you to be home by 11:00 p.m. or 10 p.m. or or midnight or

  • something like that. That's your curfew. So if I break my curfew and come home

  • late. My mother always gives me the third

  • degree. So this is probably said by like you know, a high school student or a

  • teenager especially a young teenager. Okay good. I hope you got it. I hope it's

  • clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 70. The noun phrase today is " the

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