0924 Daily Easy English Lesson PODCAST—shelling out
Daily Easy English Expression Podcast
Shane Peterson
4.7 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2018
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to Easy English Expressions. |
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| 0:30.1 | Okay, today we have a phrasal verb. |
| 0:34.0 | Gotta love those phrasal verbs. |
| 0:36.2 | Shelling out. |
| 0:39.0 | To shell out. |
| 0:43.4 | S-H-E-L-L-O-U-T. |
| 0:54.8 | To shell out means to spend money, to pay money, especially when you don't want to. |
| 1:04.7 | Okay, so, you know, some, it feels like you're wasting money or you just hate to spend the money. |
| 1:17.4 | So a good example would be, should we go to restaurant A or restaurant B? And you say, well, they both taste the same, |
| 1:29.2 | but restaurant B is much cheaper. So let's not shell out our money at restaurant A. Let's go to restaurant B. |
| 1:30.1 | Okay? |
| 1:38.7 | So once again, the idea, restaurant A is more expensive and it's not any tastier. |
| 1:41.6 | So why shell out money? |
| 1:43.7 | Why spend money? And again, the nuance waste. |
| 1:45.7 | Why waste money at Restaurant A? |
| 1:48.9 | We've got another great example in the dialogue. |
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