This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 1470.

Shape up your English.

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In English, we used shapes to describe a lot of aspects of daily life, even geography.

Today, find out what some of the most common shape expressions are and why you should know them in English.

Hey Michelle, what's going on?

Hey Lindsay, we are making our way through how are you everything's good yeah I think my

morning is really starting to shape up here it's shaping up.

Oh oh that's good what did you mean by that What did you mean by that? What did you mean by that?

Oh, man, I just had to throw that out there just for fun.

But guys, today we're talking about shapes.

So what I meant was, things are looking up, things are getting better, things are taking shape.

We were trying to put together a recording session, we had some interference in the background,

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