Hi everybody, welcome back to Ask Alicia, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them.

Maybe. Let's get to your first question. This week. First question comes from Soheb. Hi, Soheb.

Sohabe asked, hey Alicia, what does the expression narrow something down mean? Thanks. Narrow something down. Great question. We use the expression narrow something down

when we are trying to make a decision or we are trying to choose from something. So when we have

many options, we can kind of think of it as having a wide range of options or a wide number of

options, right? So when we narrow something down,

to become narrow means to get less wide. Like when you walk into a hall, for example, from a big

room, the walkway becomes very narrow like this, the space where you can walk. So when we say

we need to narrow something down or narrow our choices down,

it means we need to remove some options from the selection. So let's say we have 10 things we can

choose from, maybe 10 restaurants to go to on the weekend. We might say, we really need to narrow

the restaurants down for this weekend. So that means we go down to maybe

three. And then from there, we can choose based on which one has availability for that weekend or

which one has the best prices, whatever. So to narrow something down means to remove other options

from that selection, to have only a few things that we focus on. So we use this when we're trying to make a

decision. We might use it in kind of an everyday situation, like choosing a restaurant. We might also

use it in a more serious situation, like when we are interviewing candidates for a position,

like in a job interview situation. We might say something like, we need to narrow down our selection of candidates

for this role.

So when we narrow something down,

we refer to making just a few things,

kind of the focus of our selection process going forward.

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