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Do you ever hear native speakers use the term wear out?

Did you know that there are four different meanings for this phrase?

Today, find out what they are and how to know which meaning the person is using for better connection.

Hello, Aubrey. How's everything? I'm great. Happy Halloween, Lindsay. Oh, yes, it's Halloween.

Oh, my gosh. Is this your favorite holiday, Aubrey, or not? Honestly, Halloween really wears me out,

which is perfect. We're talking about that phrasal verb today and for a mom of bore it's exhausting I'm helping everyone get

costumes together and as much as it's really fun I love that it's on a Friday

Halloween should always be on a Friday it really should it's really a Friday kind of holiday

right it should just be the last Friday of the month that it really should. It really should. But it's exhausting. I'm at the end of the night. I'm going to be worn out for sure. I can imagine. Oh, my gosh, totally worn out. So we're getting into this phrase today. We're also going to teach in a future episode the phrase don't wear out your welcome. But that is going to be a follow up episode. So guys,

hit the follow button right now on the show so you don't miss that follow up. Yes, because we use

this phrasal verb a few different ways. It has a few different meanings wear out. And then we also

have some idiomatic chunks like don't wear out your welcome. So we'll cover that in the follow up.

And today we're going into these different meanings when you hear the phrasal verb wear out. Yes, there's a lot of different things this could mean. And we want to make sure we get the context and we get the meaning. So we can respond appropriately because when someone says they're worn out, we want to respond to that, right? And support them. Yes, this is such a good connection

moment, right? If someone shares this, they're being vulnerable. They're sharing that. They feel like

they're going to be worn out or they are worn out, right? They're asking for your support.

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