0977 Daily Easy English Lesson PODCAST— wasting away (to nothing)
Daily Easy English Expression Podcast
Shane Peterson
4.7 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 8 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. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | This is number 977. Daily Easy English expression, the podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | This is number 977. |
| 0:27.6 | The expression is, |
| 0:29.7 | wasting away. |
| 0:32.5 | Wasting away to nothing. |
| 0:35.0 | He's wasting away. |
| 0:37.7 | He's wasting away to nothing. The tree is wasting away. He's wasting away to nothing. |
| 0:41.6 | The tree is wasting away. |
| 0:46.2 | Your vegetable garden is wasting away. |
| 0:48.3 | It's wasting away to nothing. |
| 0:50.8 | This is a really good expression. |
| 0:59.4 | And unfortunately, I actually kind of wish it were happening to me. |
| 1:06.7 | I'm kind of doing the opposite. To waste away actually is a negative thing. It means to get really skinny, to get really thin, and basically to be sickly, to be sickly. |
| 1:14.4 | Okay? |
| 1:14.9 | So even going towards death, that's the idea. |
| 1:19.8 | So if you see a plant, you know, maybe a tree or a flower or some sort of vegetable |
| 1:26.6 | in a garden. |
| 1:34.4 | And if you say it's wasting away, that means it is not thriving. |
| 1:37.4 | It's probably getting skinny. |
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