0281 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—cut me some slack
Daily Easy English Expression Podcast
Shane Peterson
4.7 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2015
⏱️ 7 minutes
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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. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression. |
| 0:34.4 | For many of you, it is Friday. |
| 0:36.4 | Well, actually now it's Saturday. |
| 0:41.1 | For me, it's still Friday. TGIF. I hope that you all have a great weekend. It's probably time to maybe meet your friends, go to a movie, have a good time. Yep. |
| 0:51.3 | So, uh, if you're a kid and you live with your parents, obviously, today's expression |
| 0:58.2 | is very useful. If you're a husband or a wife, a boyfriend, a girlfriend, and you are |
| 1:05.3 | not going out on a date, but you're going out with just your friends, you might want to use this expression. |
| 1:14.7 | Now, the expression is, cut me some slack. Cut me some slack. Cut me some slack. And we did |
| 1:24.6 | study this expression something very similar a couple weeks ago. |
| 1:29.8 | It's the same as slack up. |
| 1:34.4 | Except this expression is something you say to plead. |
| 1:41.7 | Slack up. |
| 1:42.9 | This is kind of a command. You're telling something to do something, telling someone to do something. |
| 1:48.8 | Cut me some slack has the nuance of please. Oh, please be nice. Oh, don't worry. It's a little bit nicer. |
| 1:57.7 | This is the expression that you might tell your parents or your wife or your husband. |
| 2:04.6 | Yeah, you could tell your boss or your teacher too, but I would add the word, please. I'll cut me some slack, please. Please cut me some slack. Yes, this is much better than saying |
| 2:16.3 | slack up. Oh, come on, teacher on teacher slack up if a student told me that |
| 2:21.6 | that student would get an f but if the student said oh teacher please cut me some slack i might |
| 2:30.5 | cut him or her some slack maybe Maybe if I was feeling nice. |
| 2:36.1 | So be nice to me. |
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