Potty

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🗓️ 31 December 2015

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

When we see people going crazy about something, here is an alternative 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 from the BBC.
0:12.0	Hello and welcome to today is Neil.
0:17.0	Hello everyone.
0:19.0	Neil tell me about your first ever job.
0:22.0	Well I worked in a local supermarket stacking shelves when I was 16.
0:27.0	Oh, how was it?
0:29.0	Well, it was quite boring, just moving things from one place to another, but I was very happy when I got my first paycheck.
0:36.0	And how long did you stay in your first job?
0:39.0	Not very long, about three months during the summer holiday.
0:42.0	If I'd stayed there any longer I would have gone
0:44.3	potty. What? Potty? Did you have to get permission to use the toilet? No, no nothing like that.
0:51.8	Nobody needed permission to go to the toilet.
0:54.3	Well you said you would have gone potty. Now my baby son has to be reminded about his
1:00.6	potty every day. No, those are two very different things.
1:05.0	If someone is potty or going potty,
1:08.0	that means they're crazy or going crazy.
1:10.0	Here are a few examples.
1:12.0	My boss wants me to work on New Year's Day for no extra money.
1:17.0	He must be potty.
1:19.0	She's potty to sell off her car so cheaply.
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