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Today's expression is pull your weight.

P-U-L-L, pull, not, not pool, pull, pull, pull, pull your, Y-O-U-R, weight,

W-E-I-G-H-T. So your weight, you can think of your body weight. So for me, I'm, I don't know,

165 pounds, I have no idea, 75 kilograms, something like, that's my weight. So to pull my weight means to do my job, to fulfill my responsibility. We use this expression when we have a team. So it could be a sports team.

It could be a study team, a group team. It could be at work, a group project, a team project.

And you understand, let's say you have four people on a team, whether it's sports, study, or work,

and each person on the team has a job, a responsibility.

But many times, there's always that one guy who doesn't do his job.

Everybody else is doing their job,

but one guy doesn't do his job,

and the other people have to help him or have to do it for him.

That guy is not pulling his weight.

Check out the dialogue.

Oh no. Is John on our team?

Yeah, why?

He never pulls his weight.

Really? He seems like a hard worker.

Why is that? Why is the guy that He seems like a hard worker.

Why is that?

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