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Step up to the plate and learn baseball idioms in English.

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American English is packed with baseball idioms, but they aren't used when we talk about baseball. Today, learn these four essential English idioms to have fun conversations in English.

Hey Michelle, how's it going today?

Hey Lindsay, I'm good, I'm good. How are you?

Oh my gosh, I think Thanksgiving is actually coming up this week.

So I'm doing good.

I might be in California this week, so that'll be fun.

Hopefully nice weather out there.

Oh yeah, awesome.

Oh, well that'll be nice for sure.

Yes, Thanksgiving is soon. Oh my gosh, Thanksgiving!

I know. Do you like Thanksgiving, the holiday of Thanksgiving?

I do like Thanksgiving. I'm not like huge on the specific Thanksgiving food, but I do like it. like And one thing that I like about Thanksgiving is that there's a lot of people at the table talking together all the time, right Michelle?

I love that environment.

For sure.

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