1086 Daily Easy English Lesson PODCAST—to turn a blind eye to SMT/SMO

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today's English expression and dialog: Turn a blind eye to You're mad at me for stealing a cookie? What about Jimmy? What about Jim? He stole all your cookies last week. He was hungry. You always turn a blind eye when it comes to Jimmy. GET FREE LESSONS: https://www.LetsMasterEnglish.com I'm on iTunes and everywhere else they have podcasts! MAGIC MIND—Do More, Stress Less This is my DAILY LIFE FUEL! No more Starbucks coffee for me! I'm saving money and losing weight. And I still have all the energy the coffee gave me! Get some and get clean body and mind energy and help support me! www.magicmind.co/EEE You will get a 20% discount on a one-time purchase. BUT with the code EEE20 you can get a 40% discount on a subscription! That's what I got^^ Coach Shane? I'm from the USA, I make videos and podcasts for 𝐄𝐅𝐋/𝐄𝐒𝐋 students and my teaching focuses on 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, listening 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. My lessons will help you MASTER English. Support me! 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐃𝐌, 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬. Master your English listening, comprehension and pronunciation.𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐅 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧. A course 100% focused on speaking American English. Join 𝐋𝐌𝐄 365—the best of both DDM and PIRF together. Join 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 Three specific course for Beginners, Intermediate AND Advanced people Where to join? https://LetsMasterEnglish.com AND HOTMART!! https://go.hotmart.com/A67282049R?dp=1 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐲 Newsletter & FREE lessons! www.LetsMasterEnglish.com Buy me a coffee OR help buy some diapers for Mikey and Jimmy! paypal.me/LetsMasterEnglish We're on PATREON, too. And we give nice gifts!https://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. #coachshane #esl #englishpronunciation #americanpronunciation #americanenglish #actionenglish #lme #LetsMasterEnglish #ddm #pirfectenglish #pirf #coachshanepodcast

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. My name is Coach Shane and welcome to Easy English Expressions. Come on, let's master English.
0:14.8	Hello everybody. Welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast.
0:22.3	This is number 10086.
0:27.6	How you doing today?
0:29.3	Coach Shane here, great to be here.
0:31.6	We have a nice expression today.
0:33.7	To turn a blind eye to something so turn to you are n a blind b l i n d i not eyes but just i singular
0:51.0	to turn a blind eye to something means to intentionally ignore something.
1:02.4	So you have two eyes.
1:05.0	Now, not everybody, but most of us can see with both eyes.
1:09.9	Some people can see really well. Me, I can see okay. Not so good.
1:14.6	I need my glasses. Yeah, I need my glasses. But I'm not blind. I can see out of both eyes.
1:24.6	But this is an idiom. This is an idiomatic expression. And if you turn a blind eye to something or to
1:34.3	someone, it means you ignore that thing or you ignore what that person is doing. So maybe you turn a blind eye to a politician. We can say
1:51.5	towards too, to T-O-W-A-R-D-S. That's fine too. Maybe you turn a blind eye to a politician. So,
2:00.0	for example, you like this politician. You say, oh,
2:03.9	this politician is the best politician, but then the politician says something bad or does
2:11.3	something bad, but you ignore it and you say, well, yeah, that's bad. But anyway, he or she is still a good politician,
2:18.9	you are turning a blind eye to that person's mistakes or problems or scandals, right?
2:32.1	And you can turn a blind eye to your husband or your wife.
2:38.2	You might say, oh, my wife is excellent, but actually maybe she's a terrible, I have to be careful because my wife is listening.
2:49.1	Maybe she's a terrible cook or she's not that
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