This is an All-Ears-English podcast episode 695 better off versus well-off in English.

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forward slash tran sc sc sc ri p t s s c ri p t s Today learn two great expressions in natural English that seem connected but are used in very different situations.

Hey Michelle, what's going on? Hey, Michelle, what's going on? Hey, Lindy, not too much.

How about you?

Oh my gosh, I am still recovering because I went skiing for the first time in like not in yeah

in like nine no nine years no I went once this winter before

first winter in nine years that I have been skiing. I'm breaking out my skis again and it's like I woke up from a dream, a 20 year dream because I look around me and everyone has different skis.

My skis don't exist on the mountain anymore. Nobody has the model that I have.

Oh my God that's so funny. They're so old. Did you have fun though? Yeah we had a blast. We had a blast.

It was fun.

That's good.

Yeah, yeah, like I started skiing when I was young. I was three years old.

So it's the kind of sport that I can come back to anytime and feel really solid and confident

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