Knee-jerk reaction

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Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2016

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Feifei kicks Neil in the face after he hits her knee with a hammer. It's all to teach you a useful English expression

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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.
0:06.0	The English We Speak.
0:09.0	From BBC Learning English.
0:12.0	Hello and welcome to the English we speak.
0:15.0	I'm Neil and joining me is Faye.
0:17.0	Hello.
0:18.0	I've got a medical experiment to perform on you in this program, Faye Faye.
0:22.0	Right.
0:23.0	Come on, it's for our listeners.
0:25.0	We've got an expression which means to react to something
0:28.0	without thinking about it carefully first.
0:31.0	So, come on, cross one leg over the other, like that.
0:34.4	What are you doing with that hammer?
0:36.8	Keep calm, it's okay, I'm not going to hurt you, I'll just tap your knee and...
0:42.4	It worked! Yes, Neil. tap your knee and it worked.
0:44.0	Yes, Neil, well done.
0:46.0	You've just tested my reflexes.
0:48.0	When you hit my knee with the hammer, my leg kicked automatically.
0:52.0	I didn't even think about it. It was a knee-jerk
0:55.5	reaction and in English you can say that someone has a knee-jerk reaction when they
1:00.8	act after an event without thinking carefully.
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