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Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

0383 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—to fool around

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.7812 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2015

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today’s expression and dialog: to fool around I like fooling around in the kitchen? With your girlfriend? NO! When I cook. I like to create different things. So, you’re a creative cook, huh? A lot of you ask me "What do you do on your day off?" Well, to be honest, I don't really have a day off...but I do my best to NOT check email on Sundays and Mondays...so I guess that those two days are my "days off"! What do I do? I "fool around"!! I like to experiment in the kitchen. I like to go fishing and hiking. I never catch fish...very rarely, but I still love to go fishing! I like to ride my bike, too. Of course, I check out the "big" news stories of the week, too. That's about it! Nothing serious! Check out today's podcast which is ALL ABOUT fooling around! Coach Shane Please subscribe on iTunes and get this podcast EVERY DAY! Support Coach Shane by giving $1 a month! www.patreon.com/coachshane Our sponsors: www.letsmasterenglish.com Click on JOIN CLASSES and get ALL the information! www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) Our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/DailyEasyEnglish Today's Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST is UP and READY for YOU!! #LearnEnglish #ESL #Twinglish

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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.

0:29.7

Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression.

0:37.5

Today we have a phrasal verb and many phrasal verbs have so many meanings.

0:45.3

Today I'm going to give you two meanings for the phrasal verb to fool around.

0:48.2

F-O-O-O-L, fool around.

0:54.0

Well, to fool around has two very common meanings in American English.

1:01.2

One meaning is boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, kissing, hugging, hugging.

1:03.7

That can be called fooling around.

1:13.0

So if a boy, you know, a young boy, 17 years old, brings his girlfriend over to his house.

1:21.8

The dad or the mom will probably say, no fooling around, no fooling around.

1:26.2

And that means no hugging, no kissing.

1:27.4

That's the idea. But the other very common meaning of to fool around means to play.

1:35.2

That's the idea.

1:37.0

And for me, when I use the verb to fool around, it's usually regarding the kitchen or fishing or on my bike or on the computer.

1:52.3

Yeah, I like to fool around in the kitchen.

1:54.6

I like to cook things, make things, organize things.

1:58.7

I like to fool around on the computer.

2:01.5

I like watching YouTube videos and watching my interesting Twitter, the people that I follow on Twitter.

2:08.6

I like checking out the news, the latest news.

2:12.1

Fuling around, not doing anything too serious, kind of playing.

2:17.2

But when we say playing, we think of children or maybe

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