0933 Daily Easy English Lesson PODCAST—a Scrooge, a tightwad
Daily Easy English Expression Podcast
Shane Peterson
4.7 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. My name is Coach Shane and welcome to Easy English Expressions. Come on, let's master English. |
| 0:14.8 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | All right, everybody, we are getting so close to one of the most important days of the year, |
| 0:32.5 | December 22nd. |
| 0:34.7 | That's my birthday. |
| 0:38.0 | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:39.1 | Oh, thank you. |
| 0:40.8 | How old will I be? |
| 0:45.1 | Never mind. |
| 0:46.4 | Okay, today's expression. |
| 0:47.7 | Now, not only is my birthday coming up, but Christmas is coming up. |
| 0:53.1 | And if you live in America, probably in the UK, maybe in any |
| 0:57.4 | English-speaking country, especially around this time of year, you might hear this word. |
| 1:05.7 | He is a Scrooge. Don't be a Scrooge. Coach Shane is a Scrooge. I don't think that's true. I don't think I am a Scrooge. Another word for a Scrooge would be a tightwad. So let me spell them. Scrooge, S-C-R-O-O-G-E. |
| 1:30.5 | But it's a big S |
| 1:32.9 | because it's a name. |
| 1:35.8 | Scrooge. |
| 1:36.9 | Mr. Scrooge. |
| 1:39.0 | I'll talk about Mr. Scrooge in a second. |
| 1:40.9 | The second word, a tightwad. |
| 1:43.4 | It's one word, T-I-G-H-T-W-A-D. And these are the same things. |
| 1:52.3 | A-S-Rooge, a tight wad. It's somebody who does not want to spend any of their money. |
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