A doddle

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Is this phrase easy to learn?

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English. To find out more, visit our website.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to the English we speak with me, Fay Faye and me Rob.
0:12.0	Hey Faye, I wonder if you can help me of course what is it? Well when I was
0:16.5	cycling to the office I got a puncture and I need help fixing it. Sure I can help you
0:22.2	with that it's a dotle. Sure I can help you with that.
0:23.0	It's a dawdle.
0:24.0	Right, so you think it's easy?
0:26.0	Yes, that's what a dawdle means.
0:28.0	If we say something is a dawdle, it means it's easy to do.
0:32.0	It's an informal expression okay if you say so now
0:36.5	can we hear some examples first yes should be a doddle.
0:49.0	Guessing to the museum is a doddle. You only need to take one train straight there.
0:55.4	The test was a doddle and I got full marks.
0:59.4	You're listening to the English we speak from BBC Learning English and we're
1:07.8	hearing about the expression a doddle. We can say this to mean it's an easy task to do, just like mending your bike puncture.
1:15.6	In fact, it's such a doddle, maybe I can show you how to fix it, Rob.
1:20.0	Well, I did try and I managed to break the wheel.
1:24.5	Oh no, maybe fixing your puncture won't be such a doddle after all.
1:28.8	Maybe not.
1:29.8	Perhaps it's time to start walking.
1:32.0	Good idea.
1:33.0	Walking to work will definitely be a doddle.
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