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com. Learning English. dot com. Oh, hi Fay, fancy a lift to the office.

Oh, hello Finn.

Sorry I'm not actually going to the office? Oh hello Finn sorry I'm not actually going to the office today

I'm taking care of my niece. Oh what a sweet baby! Oh, isn't she adorable?

You know, I'm thinking about becoming a full-time babysitter.

Oh, really?

Oh, hang on, Finn.

Uh-huh.

Time for your bath, little one.

Oh, but Faye, you don't actually want to change your job, do? Well I enjoy my job but sometimes you know it

can be very stressful I feel like a change really but but you're so good at your job. I know how you love

completing projects and we don't miss you so much. I know, but dealing with babies are so much easier. Well just don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

Fay Faye. What do you mean? I know how to take care of a baby. Why would I throw her out?

Oh. See what you've done?

Oh, sorry, um, don't throw the baby out with the bath water is an English idiom which means

don't lose something valuable while we're getting rid of something else that we don't want.

So I was talking about your job, Faye Faye.

Just because you find it stressful, that's the thing you don't want, don't stop completely and lose what's valuable.

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