0235 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—to hound somebody

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.7 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2014

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today’s expression and dialog: to hound somebody Did you take a shower? Yes, dad. Did you use soap? Yes, dad. Did you brush your teeth? Yes! Quit hounding me~ Please subscribe on iTunes and get this podcast EVERY DAY! Support Coach Shane by giving $1 a month! www.patreon.com/coachshane Our sponsors: https://letsmasterenglish.leadpages.net/pirf/ (Join PIRF—Coach Shane’s Speaking Class!) www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm (Get 8 FREE DDM lessons!) www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) www.letsmasterenglish.com/ddmlite (Join DDM and get 1 lesson every week!) Our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/DailyEasyEnglish

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to easy English expressions.
0:11.0	You and me every day, come on, let's master English.
0:30.1	Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression.
0:31.4	Yeah.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:41.3	Today's expression is outstanding, and I need to say thank you to, uh, Chung She Chung. And also I need to say that December 22nd is my birthday.
0:47.7	It's my birthday.
0:48.6	Yep.
0:48.9	Okay.
0:49.5	Today's expression, it's a good one, especially on my birthday.
1:01.3	Please do not hound me. To hound somebody,
1:10.8	H-O-U-N-D, hound. Now, hound is used as a verb, but there's a noun, hound, H-O-U-N-D.
1:17.5	And when we think of a hound, do you know Sherlock Holmes?
1:21.3	He's a very famous detective in the UK. And Sherlock Holmes has a dog called a hound, specifically a bloodhound, B-L h o u and d well the dog hound dog is very good with its nose and
1:38.4	it can find anything it can follow anybody so to hound somebody is not only to follow that person it
1:52.5	actually means to bother the person and it comes from the dog the expression comes from the dog's
2:00.7	ability to smell and find people.
2:04.7	So don't hound me means don't bother me. Stop nagging me. Quit asking me, especially the same
2:14.4	question over and over and over and over again.
2:18.6	Oh, please stop!
2:21.5	Quit hounding me.
2:23.2	Let's check out a dialogue.
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