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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adjective Phrase 34. The adjective phrase today is
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clean cut. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. Someone who is clean cut is
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very neat in appearance and is usually well-behaved. Okay.
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It is mostly used about men. Yeah. I never really hear anybody say a clean-cut woman.
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It's mostly used about men, especially a clean shaven man who also have good
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manners and it sort of implies good morals. It's not really in the definition
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when you look at the definition. It doesn't have that, but just like remember some
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words have what we call connotations. They have other feelings that are
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connected to them and I think this word of clean cut has sort of those that has that
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meaning attached to it as well. Okay. Let's continue here. The idea alludes to
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to be clean. You need to cut away anything dirty or messy and perhaps
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indirectly or by extension anything immoral or improper. Okay. Let's continue.
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Let's give three examples here that kind of cover this. When Brian Epstein became
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the manager of the Beatles, the old group, The Beatles he made sure they had short
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haircuts and dressed in suits while performing to give them a more
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conservative clean-cut image. Yeah. He was the one that was actually going to bring
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them out. Remember this was back in the very , very early 1960s and you know I
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think the Beatles were he from performing before that like in bars in
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Germany and stuff. And you know he tried to clean them up, so that they would be
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more presentable to the public. So that they could reach big-time. So that's what
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he did. Remember and you know, the entire world was more conservative back at that
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time in the late 50s early 1960s. So he wanted to give them a clean-cut image , so
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that they would be they would be thought of as more proper
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or more suitable. You know, to spread to the mass audience. Okay. Let's look at
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number two here. She is not attracted to men with beards, ponytails, tattoos etc.
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All right. She prefers a man to have a more clean-cut look. All right. Yeah. You know,
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different women like different things. Just like different men like different
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things too. And there are some women out there ... Some women like men with ponytails.
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Some men women like men with beards. Some, some like the more clean-cut look. It's
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just the way things are. All right. And number three here. That company requires
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all its managers to have a clean-cut appearance. Yes. No facial hair. No
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ponytails or unusual piercings like you know they probably don't want nose
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piercings. Or a lip piercing or even a neck or something like that. They don't
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want that. If it's a woman manager I'm sure she could have earrings and even
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then if they allowed earrings at all they'd probably still want them to be
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very small and very short while they're at work. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I
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hope it was clear. I hope it was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
