Hi, welcome to the Effortless English Podcast. This is A.J. Hoag, I'm in San Francisco, California.

We've got a great day today in San Francisco, sunny, warm, but not hot.

Today's podcast, we're going to discuss the word, actually the phrase,

rip-off, rip-off.

It's kind of a slang word, rip-off. And rip-Off. It's kind of a slang word rip-off. And rip-off means thievary or stealing.

Thievary or stealing, rip-off.

Now we can use this as a noun or as a verb.

As a noun we would say,

that is a rip-off. That is a rip-off that is a rip off that is a rip off what does that mean

well it means that something it's like stealing it's similar to stealing when do we use this well we use

it when we're shopping for example you want to buy a new phone the phone is it's a new phone. The phone is a simple phone, low quality. But the store, they want a lot of

money. Let's say they want $1,000 for a very simple low quality phone.

Right, so the price is way too much.

So you ask the person, how much is this phone? they say oh it's a thousand dollars and you

say that's a rip off that's a rip off right that's a rip-off. It means that's like stealing. It's like they are trying to

steal your money. It's such a bad price. It's similar to stealing it's like stealing so we use this anytime a price is too

high for something the price is much too high or the quality is much too low so you can say oh, it's a rip-off

Now we can use it as a verb you say, the store ripped me off, past tense, the store ripped me off.

It means the store cheated you, right? They gave you a low quality product and you paid a lot of money.

So it's like cheating. The store cheated you. The store gave you something low quality, but you gave them a lot of money.

Say, ah, that store ripped me off. Or the restaurant ripped me off.

Right, it's, it's, they didn't actually steal from you, right? They didn't go into your

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