109 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—bite the dust

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Language Learning, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2014

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today’s expression and dialog: Bite the dust Where’s your friend? Who? Your MP3 player! You’re always listening to it. I dropped it and it bit the dust~ 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.
0:29.7	Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression.
0:34.1	Today's podcast is brought to you by Max.
0:43.6	Max is my webmaster. And Max is a great guy. And I have something to tell you about Max at the end of this podcast. So please listen for the ending. Now, today's expression is
0:50.8	bite the dust.
0:59.4	Another one bites the dust and another one going and another one going.
1:00.9	Another one bites the dust.
1:01.4	Hey.
1:02.5	Yeah.
1:05.6	That's an old queen song.
1:10.0	To bite the dust has two meanings.
1:17.3	For a human, it means to die. And the image would be a cowboy movie and two cowboys are looking at each other and one cowboy shoots the other, pow! And the cowboy falls
1:24.7	with his mouth open onto the desert road and as he dies his mouth closes and the dust goes into his mouth
1:36.3	he bites the dust he's dead but we also use it for things. Electronic things. Oh, Shane, I see. Your computer is off. Your computer is always on. What's wrong? Well, my computer bit the dust.
2:02.1	My computer bit the dust.
2:04.6	Bite the dust.
2:06.4	Past tense, bit the dust.
2:08.4	My computer died.
2:09.8	It's not working.
2:11.4	My battery bit the dust.
2:13.7	I called you, but your phone is off.
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