My bad

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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Learn a phrase about accepting blame

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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 from the BBC.
0:12.0	Welcome to the English We Speak. See?
0:12.6	Welcome to the English we speak.
0:14.8	Hello, I'm Faye, but where is Rob?
0:19.0	Oh, hi Faye, so you're nice and early.
0:22.4	Can't wait to get started, eh?
0:24.0	I'm not early, you are late.
0:27.0	Late?
0:28.0	No, no, no, no, we said we'd start at half past 10, didn we? No 10 o'clock Rob look at this text message
0:36.4	can we start earlier at 10 please and you replied sure oh Oh my bad. Your back? Don't start complaining about your
0:47.7	back just to avoid apologizing. No not my back my bad. I am apologizing. That's what my bad means. It's an American English
0:56.9	phrase that we use sometimes to mean we accept responsibility for a mistake.
1:02.1	Well, that's good to know.
1:04.0	So you're really saying sorry?
1:07.0	Well, not exactly.
1:09.0	Let's hear some more examples of using My bad.
1:18.6	My bad. My bad it was me who put my pink socks in with the white washing oops. My friend knocked a glass of red wine over me and all he could say was my bad. I don't think he was that bothered.
1:31.0	It was me who lost the car keys, my bad. I'm sure they'll turn up somewhere.
1:40.5	This is the English we speak from BBC Learning English and we're finding out about the phrase
1:45.9	My Bad which is slang for saying my fault my mistake I am to blame but Rob just can't bring himself to say sorry. I'm sensing
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