Catch Word #271 – Seen better days

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

There are many different ways to talk about things that are old and worn out in English. In this episode, Andrew and Suzanne teach you two idiomatic expressions you can use to describe these things: seen better days and worse for wear. Catch Word is the Culips vocabulary series designed for intermediate and advanced English learners. This series teaches you how to use everyday expressions, idioms, and slang to improve your speaking and listening skills. Fun facts In this episode, Andrew and Suzanne talk about giving old things new life by fixing them up. What’s interesting is that sometimes people do just the opposite: they buy new things and intentionally make them look old. This technique is known as distressing. It involves creating artificial signs of wear and tear in order to give items a vintage appearance. Expressions included in the study guide Seen better days Worse for wear TLC Heyday Past its prime Wear and tear Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: Pixabay (Pexels.com)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. My name is Andrew and my name is Suzanne. And you're listening to the
0:11.8	Qulips English podcast.
0:14.0	Welcome back to Culeps, friends. This is Ketchword,
0:18.0	the series designed for intermediate and advanced English learners,
0:22.0	and here we teach you idioms or phrasal verbs or helpful expressions
0:26.8	that can take your English listening and speaking to the next level.
0:30.9	Joining me today is my co-host Suzanne.
0:34.0	Hello, Suzanne.
0:35.0	Hello, Andrew and hello to all of our listeners out there.
0:40.0	So Suzanne, I have a little story to share here with you to kick off this episode and it's connected to the theme for this episode, okay?
0:49.2	So I'm gonna make the tie in here as I tell the story. But as you Suzanne and as all of our
0:56.4	listeners know as well, my wife and I have been renovating an old house that we
1:02.0	bought here in Seoul and it's been something that we've been working on for like the last
1:07.5	Well long time it's been a few years in the making and we're working with a design company to renovate the house because we don't really know how to renovate a house ourselves.
1:19.6	So we're working with a design company and we're collaborating with them about how we want the house to look.
1:25.6	And the design company really wanted to totally redo the whole entire house and replace all of the original features with new things and new parts.
1:36.8	But as a lover of history and antiques and vintage things that really broke my heart because the house is quite old it was built in
1:46.7	the 1950s and there are just some cool features to the house that you don't see around the city too often these days because
1:55.6	Seoul is a city that's always changing and it's very much a place where it's out with the old and in with the new and that makes me a little
2:06.4	bit sad I don't want to go out with the old I want to keep the old to some extent so we had to really beg and plead with a design company to keep some of the original features in the house.
2:19.0	And to be honest with you, I wasn't very successful at that negotiation.
2:25.0	But one thing that we did manage to keep was the front gate to the house.
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