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all earsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. Do you know any life hacks? Today you'll learn the

meanings of this extremely common word so that you won't be a

hack in English. Listen in today. Hey, Aubrey, how are you today? I'm great. How are you, Lindsay?

Good. Aubrey, do you know any good hacks? Do you have a favorite hack of, I don't know,

health hacks or life hacks? There's so many, right? I do have a favorite hack of, I don't know, health hacks or life hacks?

There's so many, right? I do have an interesting hack. I discovered that if you microwave

fresh garlic cloves for just 10 seconds in the microwave, then they slide right out of their little

skins. I used to like have a hard time peeling them out of skin or I'd smash them to get them

out of the skins. And so if you want whole garlic cloves, they'll just slide right out of them if you microwave them for a few seconds. That is so smart. Yeah, because otherwise it is kind of hard to get the skin off of it. Those papery skins. Yeah. And then your hands smell like garlic for three days, right?

Right, right.

Yeah, so I asked you if you had any health hacks or life hacks.

What are we talking about today?

Yeah, we're talking about the word hack.

This came up in a recent episode when we said couldn't hack it.

And then we were like, there are so many meanings of hack

in English. So we promised this follow-up episode. Yeah, I'm really excited to get into this because

it really is not just related meetings. It's completely different meetings, especially when we get

in to be able to hack it or to hack it, right? But wow, yeah, all sorts of different meanings for this.

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