0529 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—short and sweet
Daily Easy English Expression Podcast
Shane Peterson
4.7 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2015
⏱️ 5 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. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English expression. |
| 0:33.1 | Oh, we've got a very nice expression today. |
| 0:44.1 | It is short and sweet, S-H-O-R-T, and A-N-D-S-W-E-E-T. So if something is short, that means it's not tall or it's not long. |
| 0:52.3 | So, for example, the movie was short. It was a short movie, not very long. |
| 1:00.5 | The opposite of short, in this case, is long. He is short. That means his height is not very high. |
| 1:10.0 | The opposite of short is tall. |
| 1:12.6 | He is tall. |
| 1:13.7 | He is short. |
| 1:15.0 | But once again, long and short can also be, you know, something is long. |
| 1:19.5 | It lasts for a long time, a relatively long time. |
| 1:24.3 | And short would be, well, for a movie, a short movie would be an hour and 20 minutes a regular |
| 1:30.6 | movie about two hours a long movie maybe three hours okay so in this case short especially |
| 1:37.9 | regarding time and sweet so if we say short movie does the word sweet the adjective sweet does that work sweet |
| 1:49.1 | that's for like candy right sweet cake sweet buns hmm short and sweet is an excellent expression |
| 1:59.1 | and it means something did not last very long, |
| 2:03.5 | and it was pleasant. |
| 2:07.1 | It was very nice. |
| 2:09.5 | Sweet can have that meaning also. |
| 2:12.6 | The movie was sweet. |
| 2:15.2 | The view in the mountains was sweet. This is a great expression, short and sweet, |
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