0403 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—to put it bluntly
Daily Easy English Expression Podcast
Shane Peterson
4.7 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2015
⏱️ 8 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. |
| 0:29.6 | Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression. |
| 0:42.1 | Okay, so I told you guys I've got a few more days of dump, D-U-M-P, but I've decided not to. I'll share a couple more D-U-M-P expressions in the upcoming weeks. Yeah, I worry. Why no dump? Because I worry that I'm going to give |
| 0:53.1 | you too much and you're going to get bored. |
| 0:55.8 | So anyway, today I have another great expression. |
| 0:59.6 | It has nothing to do with dump. |
| 1:02.5 | It is, to put it bluntly. |
| 1:06.3 | To put it bluntly, To put it bluntly. |
| 1:12.0 | This is a great expression, and there are many variations, but it's commonly used like this. |
| 1:18.5 | To put it bluntly. |
| 1:20.4 | So let me first explain the words. |
| 1:22.9 | To put, P-U-T. |
| 1:25.1 | To put actually means to say. So to put it bluntly, the same thing, to say it bluntly. |
| 1:36.3 | So it, what is it? It actually refers to my opinion or the truth or what I think. |
| 1:46.3 | So to say my opinion bluntly, |
| 1:50.9 | B-L-U-N-T-L-Y. |
| 1:54.4 | Bluntly simply means directly |
| 1:57.2 | without any sugar. |
| 2:01.6 | So basically it means being honest, really honest, even when what you have to say is not very nice. |
| 2:16.6 | Do you understand? All right. So let me give you an example. A couple days ago, |
| 2:24.7 | I cut my hair. Yeah, I think my hair looks pretty good. You know, I usually cut my own hair, |
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