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Today's expression is to sponge off.

To sponge off somebody.

This is a great expression.

And basically it means to

take stuff from somebody like a sponge takes water.

Actually, when we talk about sponge, S-P-O-N-G-E, we think of absorb.

So we can use sponges when we wash dishes. For example, you can wash

dishes, it'll soak up water, it'll soak up soap, and then you can wash the dishes very effectively.

Soaks up water, soaks up soap. And sometimes people, people can do that too.

They soak up food, they soak up money, they soak up time, they soak up space. It's true, it's true.

Just like a freeloader. Remember a few days ago we studied freeloader, but freeloaders are really bad. Spunging off is a little better. And it's a

phrasal verb. Check out the dialogue.

More Tupperware?

Oh, yeah. My mom made spaghetti.

Oh, when are you going to quit sponging off your mom? You're 48.

Oh, she was just going to throw it away.

You bet when I would go to my mom's house, usually on Monday nights, she would make dinner.

And there would always be just a little bit left over.

You know, mom would eat, dad would eat, I would eat, we're full, but there's just a little bit of food left over and my mom, I'm sorry mom, it was terrible, she would throw it away and no, no, I would not

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