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Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

0538 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—to eyeball something

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.7812 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today’s expression and dialog: to eyeball something How many boxes are you going to need? I have no idea. Just eyeball your stuff and guess. Um…twelve, maybe. Are you good at guessing? If you look at someone, can you guess accurately how tall they are or how much they weigh? I'm NOT good at that. It's a skill. If I am lucky, in January, I will move. If I move, I will need to buy boxes for my clothes and books. HOW will I know how many boxes to buy? I will have to guess...I'm worried I will guess WRONG!! I will buy too few and then I will buy too many!!! Today's podcast will tell you the amazing VERB you need to know when you GUESS about the size or amount or number of something!!Have a great day!Coach Shane Please subscribe on iTunes and get this podcast EVERY DAY! Support Coach Shane by giving $1 a month! On PayPal: Send to parmyproductions@gmail.com Or you can go here: 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!! #LME #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

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0:30.1

Hello, everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast.

0:32.6

Thank you very much for listening.

0:36.1

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0:39.5

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0:42.3

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0:45.4

I'll tell you how at the end of the podcast.

0:48.0

Now, today's expression, oh, it's a good one.

0:48.9

It's a verb.

0:51.2

To eyeball something.

0:53.7

Yes, it's a verb. Let me eyeball it. Did you eyeball it? What does it mean to

1:02.6

eyeball something? Oh, this is a great expression. Okay, eyeball, E-Y-E-B-A-L-L. You know, you have in your face, in your head, you have an eye,

1:15.6

and the eye is like a ball, so to eyeball. To eyeball something means to look at something

1:23.3

and guess the size or guess the number.

1:30.6

Okay?

1:31.9

So, for example, have you seen me?

1:36.1

Perhaps you've seen me in my video.

1:38.6

And if you look at me in the video,

1:41.7

how tall would you guess I was? If you look at me, you're eyeballing me, you're

1:49.5

looking at me, you're eyeballing me, you're comparing me to something and you can guess,

1:55.5

I don't know how tall Shane is, but let me eyeball him. Look at me very carefully with your eye, of course.

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