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Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

0984 Daily Easy English Lesson PODCAST—to hang it up

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.7812 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today's English expression and dialog: hang it up Who can you do? Agent Smith! You hear that Mr. Anderson?... That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of your death... Wow~ You need to hang it up. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson... FREE LESSONS: www.LetsMasterEnglish.com/free Subscribe on iTunes and get this English podcast FRESH! Support the Let's Master English team! JOIN our classes: www.LetsMasterEnglish.com/signup Coffee for me and diapers for Mikey and Jimmy!: paypal.me/LetsMasterEnglish Become a patron: www.patreon.com/coachshane PLEASE support my sponsors: www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) www.gorillamind.com/?atid=106 Get the best NOOTROPICS for your mind and body. (USA-only☹) Study English, FREE ENGLISH LESSONS: www.letsmasterenglish.com/free http://letsmasterenglish.com/tv http://letsmasterenglish.com/radio

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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.

0:14.8

Hello everybody. Welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast.

0:22.0

Number 984.

0:25.3

Getting close to 1,000.

0:28.2

We'll get there pretty quick.

0:30.0

Well, we'll get there in 16 lessons.

0:32.8

Number 984 is hang it up.

0:37.4

Hmm. Great phrase. Now, to hang it up.

0:39.1

Great phrase.

0:46.7

Now, to hang something up, oh my goodness, there are many possible usages, many possible definitions, but today we're going to focus on one definition, hang it up meaning stop don't do it quit give it up so when i was a kid uh i knew uh i knew my father when he was a kid, I knew my father, when he was a child, he played basketball and he was very good.

1:19.0

So I knew this.

1:22.1

And I would say from about when I was eight, nine years old, I decided that I, too, would play basketball,

1:29.8

and I would be very good, and my dad would be proud of me.

1:35.3

So in seventh grade, I joined the junior high basketball team.

1:43.6

I was horrible. I was horrible.

1:46.1

I was not only horrible.

1:48.7

I was terrible.

1:52.8

And to be honest, the coach told me,

1:58.2

why don't you hang it up this year and try again next year oh my god give it up don't do it

2:10.0

you're bad you're horrible you're just terrible yeah so so i did i hung it up i hung it up i stopped playing basketball and i was so

2:23.7

embarrassed i didn't try the next year no i quit and then when i was in high school before high

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