AEE 2498: Don’t Make a Snap Judgment About These English Phrases

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all-Ears English podcast, episode 2498. Don't make a snap judgment about these English phrases.
0:10.2	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?
0:19.0	We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection,
0:26.8	with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer,
0:34.9	coming to you from Arizona and Colorado USA.
0:40.3	And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to all earsenglish.com
0:47.3	forward slash subscribe.
0:50.3	Do you make snap judgments or knee-jerk reactions? Today in this part two of our series, get more ways to say that you react quickly and learn
0:59.6	how it can be a connection topic.
1:05.7	Do you want a more international career?
1:08.0	What if English no longer held you back from getting a promotion,
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1:40.3	Hey, Lindsay. How are you? Good. Aubrey. How are you doing today? How's it going? Excellent. I have a question for you. Okay. Do you ever find yourself making snap judgments about people? Yeah, for sure. I mean, I think if we're all honest, we just do this. The brain is kind of wired to do this. I think it comes back to the lizard brain. We can notice it and we can override it,
2:02.2	but I think the brain just automatically does it sometimes. That's why we talk about first impressions
2:07.1	being so important because sometimes people can't help but make a snap judgment. Yeah. Oh my gosh,
2:12.7	it's so true. It's everywhere. And it's crazy if you think about the implications of that,
2:16.4	it's far-reaching.
2:18.0	Absolutely. Yeah. For work and personal life, you could lose out on friendships. If you make a
2:23.0	snap judgment about someone else or they do crazy. So this is interesting. This is part two of a series.
2:29.0	Part one was vocabulary for snap decisions, rash spur of the moment decisions. So stay to the end and we'll share
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