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Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Daily Easy English Podcast 546--Bah! Humbug!

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.7812 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2015

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Bah! Humbug! Are you looking forward to Christmas? Bah! Humbug! Oh, come on! Santa won’t like that! Bah! HUMBUG! There is no Santa.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression. Today's expression is

0:06.5

Behamberg! Bamberg! Now actually this is a very old English expression, but we still use it

0:18.0

around Christmas time. There is a story called A Christmas Carol by Charles

0:25.1

Dickens. And in the story, the main character hates Christmas. And whenever anybody says,

0:35.1

Merry Christmas, he always says, bah, humbug, B-A-H, bah, with an exclamation point, point and bah humbug basically means ah who cares christmas is stupid this is the idea it doesn't mean

0:58.8

christmas you could say happy birthday shane bah humbug i don't care be quiet Shane Shane have a happy

1:07.8

day bah humbug happy day there's no happy day. Bah, humbug. Happy day.

1:11.2

There's no happy day.

1:13.1

So basically a really negative person, like the Scrooge, would use this expression.

1:21.9

It's a great expression.

1:23.8

No, it's not.

1:24.3

It's a terrible expression.

1:25.9

Check out the dialogue.

1:28.7

Are you looking forward to Christmas?

1:33.9

Bah humbug!

1:36.4

Oh, come on! Santa won't like that!

1:42.5

Bah, humbug! there's no Santa.

1:49.1

There's no Santa.

1:51.6

Of course there's a Santa.

1:53.8

I believe in Santa.

1:55.9

Do you believe in Santa?

1:57.9

Absolutely.

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