0938 Daily Easy English Lesson PODCAST—to do someone's bidding
Daily Easy English Expression Podcast
Shane Peterson
4.7 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. My name is Coach Shane and welcome to Easy English Expressions. |
| 0:11.1 | Come on, let's master English. |
| 0:14.5 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast. |
| 0:21.7 | Today's expression is to do someone's bidding. |
| 0:28.2 | To do someone's bidding, B-I-D-D-D-I-N-G. |
| 0:33.8 | So I do my father's bidding. I do my father's bidding. |
| 0:41.9 | I do my wife's bidding. |
| 0:46.7 | You are doing the boss's bidding. |
| 0:51.4 | I need someone to do my bidding. |
| 0:53.3 | And what does this mean? Well, the simple definition, slave. I am my father's slave. |
| 1:01.6 | I am my wife's slave. You are your boss's slave. I need a slave. Now, we don't actually mean a slave. You know, that's very cruel, |
| 1:15.4 | but the idea is you will do anything the other person says. And many times what you do is |
| 1:24.9 | the bad stuff. |
| 1:28.6 | So the boss wants to do something that's not very nice. |
| 1:32.9 | He asks you to do it and you do it. |
| 1:38.1 | So I'll give you a quick example. |
| 1:40.1 | A long time ago, I worked at a language institute |
| 1:43.8 | and there was a teacher who was kind of a |
| 1:47.4 | problem. |
| 1:48.7 | So the owner of the school wanted to fire that teacher, but everybody loved the owner. |
| 1:56.9 | The owner was a nice guy. |
| 1:59.3 | That's not true. |
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