Speaker 1 0:01

Hello plus member, thank you so much for being here and supporting this podcast. We are going to be deep diving into some more of the vocabulary that I covered in our episode about speeding, that very naughty thing that a lot of us have been guilty of at one point or another. So let's not waste any time, let's dive straight into it. There's one thing that I said which may have sounded a little odd, but I said I don't know about you, but I don't know about you. But Now this is a really common phrase and it comes before a statement about something that you like or do or believe. So you usually say something about yourself and by starting the statement with I don't know about you, but you're saying I don't know if you agree with me, or I don't know if you do the same thing, or I don't know if you feel the same way. But this is how I feel and it's a way of almost asking them do you feel the same way or do you do the same thing? So I don't know about you, but I always start my meal by eating the least tasty thing on the plate, so that by the time I finish my meal, i've eaten the most tasty thing on my plate. Or I don't know about you, but I actually don't mind the rain. I quite like it. Or I don't know about you, but I only get six hours sleep every night. Okay, moving on, i talked a lot about sticking to the speed limit, finding it hard to stick to the speed limit.

Speaker 1 1:56

Now, to stick to something is a very common phrase or verb, and it means to continue to do something. So people will often talk about finding it difficult to stick to a diet or some sort of lifestyle change, some new regime, that they can't continue or that they're trying to continue. Oh, i hope I'll stick with my new exercise regime. I'm trying to get up every morning an hour earlier than usual, go down to the gym and swim 20 lengths and then do 20 minutes in the gym. It's quite exhausting, but I'm trying to stick to it. So I'm trying to continue with something. Okay, so the next one. I said that I think it was. I was talking about cruise control. I said it comes in handy. If something comes in handy, then it means it's very useful. For example, if you need to decorate your room and you've got a pot of paint, then a paintbrush would come in handy Or, even better, a roller really comes in handy when you're trying to decorate at speed, because you can cover a lot more wall and evenly as well with a roller. But when you're trying to do the edges, then a fine paintbrush comes in handy, or a good quality paintbrush really comes in handy, and for those times when you drip the paint accidentally on the floor or all over yourself, then some tissue or a cloth really comes in handy Useful.

Speaker 1 3:39

I also mentioned law abiding citizens. So if you abide by the law, then you follow the law. You do not break the law. You are a good person who cooperates and you do as you're told. You do as you're supposed to do. You follow the societal expectations for behaviour. So if you are a law abiding citizen, then you are the kind of person who follows the rules, a law abiding citizen. I am a law abiding citizen, apart from that one time when I broke the speeding limit and got caught. But I did my time, i paid my fee and I did my course. So I am rehabilitated.

Speaker 1 4:33

I also said that I might be being cynical when I suggested that speeding was lucrative to the government because they wouldn't ever introduce something that would limit speeding on our cars to actually stop it from happening, because perhaps they're making too much money and it would be costly for them to stop people from speeding properly. Stop them. So if you are cynical, it means you're untrusting, it means you don't really you expect people to be corrupt. You don't trust that the positive thing is going to happen or that people are going to behave in a kind and unselfish way. If you're cynical, then you believe that everyone is selfish and everyone's just out to line their own pockets. There's another phrase for you to line your own pockets is to do things that benefit you financially. So if you are cynical, then you don't trust people. You think that people are selfish inherently. Okay.

Speaker 1 5:40

So I also said, when talking about this particular part of speeding the money that the government makes, i mentioned the amount and I said need I say more? So this is a rhetorical question, a question that doesn't require an answer, but I ask need I say more? Now, normally the question would be phrased do I need to say more? But this is a set phrase, a set question, and it's need I say more? need I say more? And it's basically a way of wrapping up an argument. So you've made a very clear statement and you've probably backed it up with some very clear evidence, or the evidence has presented itself and you just say to the other person need I say more? Do you need to hear or see or know any more than you've just learned to understand my point of view or to agree with me on this point? It's like it's almost sarcastic. So you're saying you don't need any more information. I said to you I may be being cynical, but I believe perhaps speeding is not being actually limited by some sort of speed limiting device, because the government makes a lot of money, and last year they made £78.3 million, which is a lot of money. Need I say more? Surely that's enough on its own to make my point. Need I say more? I don't think I do on this particular point. So let's move on.

Speaker 1 7:31

I talked about reaping the rewards. I said something along the lines of the government give us the tools to break the law, they lay the trap and then they reap the rewards To reap. You may hear this in the phrase you reap what you sow, which means you get what you deserve. So if you sow the seeds of chaos, then your reward will be chaos. If you are someone who is very diligent with money and you invest your money very wisely, very sensibly, low risk, then you will reap the rewards. You will be rewarded with a good yield, a good return on your investment. If you are studying for an exam and you put in lots of study time and review time, lots of revision, you do the work, then you will reap the rewards. You will be rewarded with a good grade.

Speaker 1 8:36

Okay, next, i said I felt gutted when the van drove over the men's paintwork when the men had painted the sign on my road and an inpatient driver couldn't wait for just a few minutes or even 30 seconds for the paint to dry, because it was very quick drying paint. He couldn't wait. As soon as the man moved his paint pot away from the road, he drove straight through it, splattering and smudging the work and leaving dirty prints in this pristine white paintwork which I felt gutted. It was very disappointing. So if you are gutted, it's a sense of deep disappointment. You feel it in your gut. Your gut is like your stomach, your abdomen. If you are gutted, like someone is just taken out your stomach. You feel so bad Now I said it again that the paintwork was smudged.

Speaker 1 9:37

If you smudge something, it's often something that is wet or loose, so, like you could smudge anything that's created with ink or paint, you could also smudge your makeup, so anything that's slightly loose that's being put in a certain place and if something rubs against it and it moves it out of place, then it smudges. So I will often. If I'm writing with a slightly leaky pen and my hand rests on the ink as I'm writing, then often the writing will smudge. When I was younger, doing lots of pencil drawings, i used to do smudging on purpose. I used to try and smudge the pencil lines to make them slightly fainter.

Speaker 1 10:22

I also said that the work was pristine. This is a way of describing something that's perfect, that's pristine, it's untouched, it's just as it was when it was first created. It's beautiful, pristine, clean, undamaged, flawless, pristine. If you are buying something secondhand and if the thing that you're buying is in perfect condition, then it may be described as in pristine condition.

Speaker 1 10:55

And the final phrase on my list was to fall in line. I said that the flashing signs that publicly shame or praise you for your speed, from a psychological point of view, was an excellent way to make people fall in line. If you fall in line, it means that you follow the rules. You follow everybody else. So if I want you all to sit at the table quietly, eat your food and then stand up, take your plate to the kitchen before heading straight back into the factory to work, then I expect everyone to fall in line and do as they're told and follow that rule. But if someone doesn't follow that rule, then they're not falling in line And I might say we need to get rid of this person. They are disobedient and they refuse to fall in line. Okay, i do hope you found today useful. Let me quickly recap. We had I don't know about you, but followed by something that you do feel or believe.

Speaker 1 12:09

Then to stick to something the phrase of a verb to stick to something, meaning that you try to continue with something, often something that's quite hard to continue with. If something comes in handy, then it is useful. If I describe you as a law abiding citizen, then you are someone who's good and follows the rules. If you're cynical, then you are untrusting and think that everyone is selfish. If I say, need I say more, then I'm suggesting that you need no more evidence to believe what I am showing you or telling you about. If you reap the rewards, then you get what you deserve based on the work you've put in. If you feel gutted, then you are deeply disappointed. If something smudges, then it's a material that's been moved, like an ink or a paint or a makeup that's been moved from where it originally lay. If something is pristine, then it is perfect, flawless, and if you fall in line, then you do as you are meant to do within a group or community situation.

Speaker 1 13:33

Okay, can you remember all those? Alright, let's do a little test. If I am going to use a phrase to say that I'm finding it hard to continue with my healthy eating regime, what phrase could I use? I'm finding it hard to stick to my new healthy eating regime If I have suggested that our son is not old enough to carry his own crockery, his own plate, from the dining table to the kitchen because he's clumsy, and then he instantly falls over in front of us. As I say this, i'm going to look at you and say what Need I say more?

Speaker 1 14:30

Because my point has just been proven. If I'm untrusting, if I think that no one does something nice, everyone does things for themselves, everyone's selfish, then you could describe me as being what? Cynical. I am cynical. If I do as I'm told and I follow all the rules and I don't speed, then I am what I'm a law abiding citizen. If I feel desperately disappointed, i could say I feel gutted. And last one, if I am describing a scene where the snow has fallen but no one has walked in the snow, it's as perfect as the moment that it fell. I could describe it as looking pristine. Okay, thank you so much for spending this time with me. I do hope you found this useful. Until next time, take care and goodbye.