108 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—Beats me!

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Language Learning, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2014

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today’s expression and dialog: Beats me. Is Pluto still considered a planet? Beats me. Well, in my book, it is. Yeah. Mine, too. Please subscribe on iTunes and get this podcast EVERY DAY! Support Coach Shane by giving $1 a month! www.patreon.com/coachshane Our sponsors: www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm (Get 8 FREE DDM lessons!) www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) www.letsmasterenglish.com/grammar (CHECK YOUR GRAMMAR!) Our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/DailyEasyEnglish

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to easy English expressions.
0:11.0	You and me every day, come on, let's master English.
0:30.8	Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English expression.
0:35.8	Today's expression is very useful.
0:41.7	When you do not know something, you can use this expression.
0:45.5	Beats me. Beats me.
0:50.7	B-E-A-T-S-M-E.
0:53.3	It beats me.
1:00.6	You don't have to say it. You can just say beats me. Beats me. It means I don't know.
1:10.0	Now, why does it mean I don't know? Well, B-E-A-T. One meaning of beat is a drum beat. Doon, doon, do, do, do.
1:13.6	Another meaning of beat is in sports.
1:18.6	My team beat your team.
1:22.6	My team won.
1:24.6	My team defeated your team. And that's the nuance in this situation. It beats me.
1:33.6	I don't know. I'm defeated by that question. I don't know the answer. This is the nuance. So you can think of
1:42.5	sports and losing. If somebody asks you a question,
1:46.7	what does E equals MC squared mean? Oh, beats me. You feel defeated. You feel like you lost because
1:56.7	you don't know the answer. Got it? All right, let's check out a dialogue.
2:03.1	Is Pluto still considered a planet?
2:06.4	Uh, beats me.
2:08.8	Well, in my book it is.
2:11.2	Yeah, mine too.
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