This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 1712, Animal Idioms, The Bird Edition.

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We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection.

With your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan,

the New York Radio Girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City, USA.

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Are you free as a bird when it comes to learning English?

Today, get five idioms where native speakers use birds to communicate a point.

Listen in to add wings to your English today.

Hey, Michelle. How's it going today? Good to see you on video today.

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

I am good. I'm feeling great. I'm happy to be here. We just moved into our new home.

Oh my gosh. It is so chaotic moving. You know what that's like, right, Michelle?

It's not fun. It's not fun.

Oh my gosh. So did you spend like the whole weekend doing it?

Oh totally.

Totally.

Oh no. We spent like all of last week like getting painters, getting cleaners, boxing up, the movers,

and dealing with all the, you know, you think you're done and then there's like ten more things still at the original place.

You have to go back. It's incredible.

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