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All right, today's expression is to plug away.

To plug away.

It's a phrasal verb, P-L-U-G.

Plug away, A-W-A-Y.

So you, for example, have a computer, and the computer needs electricity.

So where do you get the electricity?

From the wall, right?

You have a cord and you plug the cord into the wall and then you get electricity so once again

that's called a plug you plug the cord into the wall and actually it's not the cord you put into the wall.

The little piece of plastic and metal that you put into the wall,

that is also called a plug.

Okay, so plug can be a verb and it can be a noun.

So plug the plug into the wall. In other words, put the cord into the wall. But again,

the cord is just a long straight piece, the wire. You don't put that into the wall. You put the plug into the wall. Okay? So plug the plug into the wall. Also, the wall part can be called an

outlet. The proper word is outlet, O-U-T-L-E-T, but it's also called a plug. So you could actually say

plug the plug into the plug. Yeah, that actually kind of works. But don't do that.

It's confusing. So anyway, now we understand plug. So to plug away means to work, work, work, work, work.

And I have the perfect example in the dialogue. So I want you to

listen to that, and then I'll do a little more explaining. Here we go. How's Coach Shane's new office?

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