It slaps!

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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What do you think is absolutely amazing?

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:05.6	Hello and welcome to the English we speak, with me, Faye Faye.
0:10.1	And me, Roy.
0:11.7	Have you heard that new song by your favorite band, The Spinning Lizards of Doom?
0:17.6	Yes, it slaps.
0:20.0	What do you mean? The song slapped you? Are you okay?
0:24.0	Yes, I'm fine. We use the expression it's slaps or that something slaps to say that we think something is amazing.
0:34.0	Oh right.
0:35.0	Wait, you think that song is good?
0:39.0	It sounds like a squirrel fighting with a tin can in a bin.
0:43.0	Roy, all of their songs slap.
0:46.0	You don't appreciate it because you have terrible taste in music.
0:50.0	I knew you were going to say that.
0:51.0	I'm not even going to start speaking about films.
0:53.7	Good. Well let's talk more about things that slap right after these examples.
0:59.6	That new film is amazing. All of the films by that director slap. Have you seen the
1:10.4	latest episode where Charlotte gets abducted by aliens?
1:14.0	It slaps.
1:15.8	Their new song really slaps.
1:18.4	I don't know how they keep producing hit after hit.
1:21.1	You're listening to the English we speak from BBC Learning English and we're talking about
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