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🗓️ 23 June 2014
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to easy English expressions. |
0:14.0 | You and me every day, come on, let's master English. |
0:30.5 | Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression. |
0:34.3 | Today's podcast is brought to you by Yuka. |
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0:44.3 | Thank you. |
0:45.3 | And thanks to Yuka, today's expression is... |
0:49.3 | Picky. |
0:51.3 | Picky. |
0:52.3 | P-I-C-K-Y. It's an adjective, and we can describe someone as being picky. |
1:03.0 | He is picky. She is picky. I do not like picky people. What does picky mean? |
1:13.6 | Well, if somebody is picky, they are very careful when they choose something or when they accept something. Maybe they're too careful. They check it very carefully, |
1:34.7 | or if they ask for something, they are very particular. So it's especially common to say a picky eater. Somebody who is a picky eater is very careful about what they eat and they check everything. They look at everything. When I was young, I was a very picky eater. If my mom fed me vegetables, I would not eat. |
2:10.2 | But then my mom wouldn't give me any cookies, so I quickly learned not to be so picky. |
2:17.6 | Mm-hmm. mm-hmm. |
2:18.9 | But now that I'm older, I think I'm still very picky. |
2:24.7 | In my case, I love vegetables now. |
2:27.7 | But I try to eat healthy food. |
2:32.3 | And I try not to eat at fast food restaurants. |
2:38.3 | That makes me a little bit picky. |
2:41.7 | When it comes to wearing clothes, I'm not picky. |
2:47.2 | I wear anything. |
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