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🗓️ 24 October 2014
⏱️ 9 minutes
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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 Hello everybody, welcome back to daily easy English expression. |
0:30.5 | Oh, today's expression is very nice. |
0:32.4 | Listen carefully. |
0:34.1 | Suit yourself. Suit yourself. Suit yourself. |
0:39.0 | Suit, S-U-I-T-E-T-R-T. suit yourself suit yourself suit yourself suit yourself suit s u i t yourself why oh you are s e l f suit yourself what does this mean it's a great |
0:51.1 | expression and it means do as you like. Do what you want. Now, sometimes this can be polite. You know, you can, so if your friend says, can I sit here, suit yourself. Can I have a hamburger at a restaurant? The waiter says, |
1:15.5 | suit yourself. So, so. Your brother says, suit yourself. That's fine. Suit yourself is not the |
1:24.6 | expression you should use in a business situation. |
1:28.8 | So if you're a waiter, a waitress, if you work at a hotel, |
1:32.5 | if you work at a store, in a business situation, |
1:35.6 | in a business meeting, suit yourself is not really that common. |
1:41.9 | It's not rude. |
1:44.0 | It's just not very polite. And of course, in a business |
1:48.8 | situation, at a restaurant, we would hope that people are polite. But if you came over to my house, |
1:58.0 | obviously you would be my friend and you said, Shane, can I have a Coke in your |
2:03.1 | refrigerator? |
2:04.5 | And I said, so yourself. |
2:06.7 | It means go ahead, no problem. |
2:09.6 | Okay? |
2:10.6 | Now also among friends, it can be negative. |
2:14.2 | For example, I recommend that you have milk, but you say, oh, no, Shane, I don't like milk. |
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