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But first, today's expression.

It's a good one.

It's a phrasal verb, and many of you might know it.

It is to break even. To break even. B-R-E-A-K- break-even, E-V-E-N. Now, to break even, is there an opposite? No. To break even has

basically one meaning and it means that the incoming money and the outgoing money are the same.

It doesn't have to be money.

It could be, for example, cookies.

So let me give you an example.

When I was a kid and I went to school, I always brought my lunch from home.

And every lunch it was the same thing, a sandwich, like two cookies, and a small bag of potato chips.

And I love potato chips, but do you know what?

More than potato chips?

I love apples.

So I had a friend, his name was Matthew,

and sometimes his mom would put an apple in his lunchbox,

but she would cut it into pieces, like eight pieces.

Well, Matthew liked chips, and I liked apples.

But Matthew was smart.

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