Cheesed off

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Education, Language Learning

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2014

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Finn is angry, so Li offers him some tasty cheese. Will it calm him down?

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0:00.0	This is a feature from BBC learning English.
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0:09.0	forward slash podcasts.
0:11.0	The English we speak Speak From the BBC.
0:15.0	Hi Finn.
0:17.0	Oh, you don't look that happy today.
0:21.0	Here, have a bit of cheese. No thanks, Lee. It's tasty.
0:27.0	Italian cheese, my favorite.
0:30.0	Thank you, Lee, but you know, I'm sorry, I'm just in a terrible mood today.
0:36.0	Do you know I have to spend the whole weekend writing a report?
0:40.0	Oh, really?
0:42.0	Yeah, well, the the boss said my first draft wasn't good enough and asked me to do the whole thing again by Monday.
0:51.0	Oh, not much fun. Sorry, Finn. Are you sure you don't want some cheese?
0:58.0	No, no cheese for me, thanks. You know, I'm really cheesed off. Cheesed off is that a medical problem?
1:08.1	You can't eat cheese? No in English to be cheesed off means to be really annoyed.
1:15.0	I'm so cheesed off.
1:17.0	You can also say, to cheese someone off.
1:20.0	So, writing reports really cheeses me off.
1:25.0	So, now I know why you are cheesed off.
1:28.0	That's right.
1:29.0	Cheesed off is today's expression in authentic real English.
1:34.0	Let's hear some examples of how it's used.
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