Catch Word #267 – Burst your bubble

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🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Nobody likes to be disappointed, but it happens to all of us at some point of our life, so it’s good to know how to talk about it. In this episode, Andrew and Kassy teach you two useful expressions used when talking about disappointing someone. Catch Word is the Culips vocabulary series designed for intermediate and advanced English learners. With this series you’ll learn common everyday idioms and expressions and improve your listening and speaking skills. Fun facts According to the Guinness World Records, Gary Pearlman from the USA set a world record for the largest outdoor free floating soap bubble on July 20, 2015. That bubble had a volume of 96.27 m³! Expressions included in the study guide To burst [someone’s] bubble To dash [someone’s] hopes Tongue-in-cheek To be left on read To get over [something/someone] Worst-case scenario Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: Sebastian Pichler (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello there everyone. My name's Andrew and I'm Cassie. And this is the
0:08.4	Culeps. This is Catch Word. The series for intermediate and advanced English learners,
0:25.0	where we teach you idioms or phrasoverbs or expressions that will help improve your English listening and speaking. Today to help me with this lesson
0:36.0	I'm joined by my co-host Cassie. Hello Cassie.
0:40.0	Hi Andrew and hi listeners. So everyone, we've got a fantastic vocabulary lesson for you today.
0:47.6	It is fantastic, but unfortunately, it's not super positive. Today's topic is talking about disappointing someone.
0:58.0	But you know, it's still useful.
1:00.0	Life is not always sunshine and rainbows.
1:02.0	So even though we're talking about kind of a
1:04.1	depressing topic it's still useful okay so Andrew and I will teach you these two
1:09.8	idiomatic expressions that are perfect to use when you're talking about
1:14.4	someone getting disappointed. Perfect, Cassie, yeah that's exactly right.
1:19.3	So the two key expressions that will teach everyone today
1:23.4	are to burst someone's bubble
1:26.9	and to dash someone's hopes.
1:30.4	And in both of these expressions the speaker is disappointing someone else, right?
1:36.8	So they're really common idioms.
1:39.0	English speakers use them all the time when we're talking about disappointing someone so they're great to add to your
1:44.9	vocabulary to help with both your speaking and listening.
1:50.3	And we'll get started with this episode in just a moment, but before we do guys, we want to let you know that there is a transcript and study guide for this episode available to all QLips members.
2:04.2	We've designed the practice exercises
2:06.6	that are in the guide specifically
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