Welcome to the Rachel's English podcast. I'm so glad you're listening.

Today I'm sitting down with my husband David and we're just talking about regular old life things.

And as we discuss what's going on with us, we'll pick out the phrasal verbs, the idioms,

and any interesting vocabulary that comes up and we'll discuss them.

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David, so glad to have you here with me today.

Good to be here.

I'm going to ask you some questions, going to just see what phraseal verbs, idioms, interesting vocabulary, pop up as we have an everyday casual conversation.

Let's do it.

Okay, let me start by asking you a question.

Okay.

Can you describe the most challenging job you've ever had?

Wow, that's a place to start.

Yep.

So challenging and rewarding often go hand in hand.

That's certainly the case for me with this job. This was

working at a high school in North Philadelphia, and that area of the city is really economically

depressed. There's a lot of... What does that mean economically depressed?

Means that the median income would be at the low end of the spectrum.

Does it say anything about job opportunity as well, would you say?

Absolutely. Absolutely. In the sense that there are a few good jobs readily available in that area.

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