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Today's expression, oh, it's terrible.

To be slapped with a fine. To be slapped with a fine. What is a fine? A fine. F-I-N-E. A fine? Well, that's like a ticket. So if you're driving too fast, the police might give you a ticket.

You might have to pay money.

That money is a fine.

Sometimes if you go to the library and you check out a book, you take a book, you have to return it after two weeks.

But if you are late, you have to pay a penalty.

That penalty is a fine.

So a fine is a penalty that you have to pay money.

You have to pay for doing something wrong.

To be slapped, S-L-A-P-P-E-D now to slap that actually means to hit somebody or something with your open hand so you might slap your friends back hi John how are you doing you're angry at ladies, if you're angry at your husband,

you might slap his face. That's very painful. Don't do that. But this is the idea to slap.

So to slap means to hit with an open hand.

Now, to be slapped with a fine.

No, that doesn't mean the police slap you in the face with a ticket.

It just means they gave you a ticket.

And that ticket is painful.

It's embarrassing. Just like if a wife slaps her husband in public,

or if my mother slaps my butt in public, if I did something wrong as a child, of course.

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